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oblong-, coriaceous, shining when dry, 9 to 15 cm long, 3.5 to 6 
cm wide, entire, the apex rather prominently acuminate, the 
base acute; lateral nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, the reticulations distinct. Petioles 5 to 20 cm long. 
Racemes simple, axillary, few-flowered, 1.5 to 2 cm long, the 
pedicels stout, 1.5 mm long or less, the bracteoles linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, about 1 mm long. Calyx somewhat cup- 
shaped, narrowed below, 2 to 2.5 mm long, the lobes short, 
broader than long. Petals oblong-elliptic, 3 mm long. Disk 
prominent, truncate. Staminodes 6, inserted outside of the disk. 
Ovary ovoid, 1.2 mm long. Fruit nearly terete, oblong-ovoid, 
somewhat inequilateral, acute, about 1.3 cm long, the pericarp 
thin, wrinkled when dry. 
Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34-720 Ramos & Pas- 
casio, June 14, 1919, along streams at low altitudes at the iron 
deposit on the northeast coast. 
A species belonging in the same group with Canarium vil- 
losum F.-Vill. but distinguished from all previously described 
forms of the genus by its simple leaves. 
MELIACEAE 
DYSOXYLUM Blume 
DYSOXYLUM CAPIZENSE sp. nov. § Eudysoxylum. 
Arbor parva, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque puberulis; 
foliis alternis, usque ad 18 cm longis, foliolis oppositis, circiter 
10, chartaceis, nitidis, oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, 4 
ad 8 cm longis, acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 15, indis- 
tinctis, reticulis subobsoletis ; inflorescentiis solitariis, spiciform- 
ibus, e axillis defoliatis, 4 ad 5 cm longis; floribus 4-meris, 5 ad 
6 cm longis, calycis circiter 3 mm diametro; petalis oblongis, 
extus puberulis ; ovario 4-locellato, pubescente. 
A tree, about 5 m high, the young branchlets, inflorescences, 
and petioles grayish or yellowish puberulent. Leaves alternate, 
15 to 18 cm long, the petioles and rachis somewhat angular; 
leaflets opposite, usually 10 or 11, firmly chartaceous, brown- 
ish and shining when dry, glabrous, somewhat inequilateral, 
oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 4 to 8 cm long, 2 to 3 cm 
wide, the apex acuminate, base acute or rounded; lateral nerves 
slender, indistinct, up to 15 on each side of the midrib, the 
reticulations obsolete or nearly so; petiolules 3 mm long or 
less. Inflorescences simple, solitary, spikelike, from the axils 
of fallen leaves, 4 to 5 cm long. Flowers sessile or subsessile, 
4-merous, 5 to 6 mm long. Calyx shallowly cup-shaped, about 
