VIII, c, 6 Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae 373 
subtus cum reticulis valde prominentibus, costa nervisque utrin- 
que leviter ciliato-hirsutis ; inflorescentiis spicatis, axillaribus, 
usque ad 10 cm longis; floribus $ fasciculatis, 3-meris, circiter 
1 cm longis (vel longioribus) , filamentis basi connatis, disco apice 
valde ciliato. 
A tree about 17 m high. Branches terete, pale-gray, the 
ultimate ones 3 to 4 mm in diameter, glabrous, the younger branch- 
lets more or less hirsute or ciliate-hirsute with stiff, short or 
elongated, pale-brownish hairs. Leaves alternate, 20 to 25 cm 
long, pinnately 3- or 4-foliolate, the petioles and rachis pale, 
slightly hirsute, glabrescent; stipules setaceous, 7 to 10 mm long, 
densely hirsute, persistent; leaflets oblong to oblong-elliptic, 7 
to 15 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, coriaceous, green and shining 
on both surfaces when dry, the midrib, lateral nerves, and to a 
less degree the very prominent reticulations on both surfaces, 
with scattered, very stiff, white, setose-ciliate hairs about 1 mm 
long, the apex shortly acuminate, the base rounded to subacute, 
the margins usually somewhat recurved, distantly denticulate, a 
minute tooth terminating each marginal reticulation, each tooth 
with a tuft of stiff ciliate hairs; lateral nerves about 15 on each 
side of the midrib, somewhat impressed on the upper surface, 
very prominent on the lower, the primary reticulations often 
subparallel, nearly as prominent as the nerves; petiolules, 8 to 
15 mm long, sparingly hirsute or ciliate, that of the terminal 
leaflet in trifoliolate leaves often much longer. Staminate 
inflorescences axillary, solitary, spicate, 7 to 10 cm long, more 
or less hirsute with short stiff hairs, the flowers sessile, fascicled 
at the nodes, rather numerous. Flowers 3-merous, yellowish. 
Calyx cylindric-cupular, densely pale-hirsute with short appressed 
hairs, 7 to 8 mm long, about 5 mm in diameter, the lobes 3, 
broadly ovate, 3 mm long and 4 mm wide, rounded or shortly 
and abruptly acuminate. Petals (in nearly mature bud) about 
9 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, oblong-obovate, obtuse, externally in 
the upper part densely appressed-hirsute. Stamens 6, their 
filaments glabrous, free from the disk and outside of it, united 
for the lower 1 to 1.5 mm, the free parts about 4 mm long; 
anthers oblong, 3 mm long. Disk thick, somewhat cupular, about 
1.5 mm high, glabrous except for the densely ciliate-hirsute apex 
which is obscurely denticulate. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel 283, July 3, 1913, in forests. 
A species strongly characterized by its very prominently nerved and 
reticulate leaflets which are few in number, 3 or 4, their margins minutely 
denticulate, each small tooth tipped with a tuft of stiff hairs, the scattered, 
