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foliolis 3 ad 5, coriaceis, elliptico-ovatis vel oblongo-ellipticis, alternis, 
valde glanduloso-punctatis, plus minus inaequilateralibus, apice acu- 
minatis, basi acutis vel obtusis ; paniculis axillaribus ; calycibus 5 - 
vel 4-meris, lobis valde imbricatis, glanduloso-punctatis; ovario sessile, 
dense villoso; fructibus suborbicularibus, ellipticis vel obovoideis, crassis, 
leviter eompressis, brunneis, ligneis, 3 ad 4 can longis, circiter 3 cm latis, 
2.5 cm crassis, indehiscentibus ; seminibus solitariis, albumine ruminato. 
The type of this species is Elmer 7366 from Leyte, the specimens with im- 
mature fruits and without flowers, which perhaps accounts for its originally being 
described as Cynometra. Later Mr. Elmer transferred it to Hardivickia, follow- 
ing the conception of that genus as defined by Bentham and Hooker. Harms has 
however proposed the new genus Kingiodendron, based on Hardivickia pinnata 
Roxb., to which the present species is allied. As we consider Kingiodendron 
to be a valid genus, the Philippine species is here transferred as the second species 
of the genus. 
In addition to the type, cited above, the species is represented b}' the following 
specimens: Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Guinayangan, Bath s. n., May, 1904 
(fruit), Mulanaw and San Narciso, For. Bur. 10327, 10354 Curran, April, 1908 
(fruit) : Province of Camarines, For. Bur. 10671 Curran (sterile) : Province of 
Sorsogon, For. Bur. 10624 Curran (sterile). Masbate, Merrill 2761, June, 1903 
(fruit), Whitford 1679, October, 1906 (sterile). Ticao, For. Bur. 1084 Clark, 
May, 1904 (fruit). Panay, Miagao, Viclal 2468 in Herb. Kew. Mindanao, Dis- 
trict of Zamboanga, For. Bur. 6567 Hutchinson, March, 1907 (immature fruit) ; 
Port Banga, For. Bur. 9301, 9007, 11036 Whitford & Hutchinson (in flower). 
The present species is a timber tree of considerable importance, being com- 
mercially known as Batete. The wood structure has been considered by Fox- 
worthy 0 who states that it is much like that of Sindora supa Merr., in structure, 
but is darker and with a greater amount of oil. It is widely distributed in the 
central and southern Philippines, and is known by the following native names 
V., Batete ; T., Dangay ; B., Salalangin; in Zamboanga as Palo Maria and 
Bitanhol, but these two names belong properly to Calophyllum. 
MEZONEURUM Desf. 
Mezoneurum latisiliquum (Cav.) comb. nov. 
Bauhinia ? latisliqua Cav. Icon. 5 (1799) 5, t. 468, in part, excluding descrip- 
tion and figure of leaves. 
Mezoneurum glabrum Desf. in Mem . Mus. Paris 4 (1818) 245, t. 10; DC. 
Prodr. 2 (1825) 484; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 258; F.-Vill. 
Nov. App. (1880) 70; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I 1 (1855) 103; Vidal Phan. Cuming. 
Philip. (1885) 110, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 114; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
1 (1906) Suppl. 64. 
Caesalpinia torquata Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 336. 
Mezoneurum procumbens Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 235, ed. 3, 2:73. 
Luzon, Province of Pampanga, Arayat, Merrill 1438: Province of Rizal, 
Merrill 1711: Province of Bataan, For. Bur. 5958 Curran; Whitford s. n .; Wil- 
liams 701: Province of Laguna, Los Banos, Elmer; Bur. Sci. 6095 Robinson. 
Mindoro, Paluan, Merrill 956; For. Bur. 9748 Merritt. Negros, For. Bur. 7315 
Everett. Basilan, For. Bur. 3978 Hutchinson ; Hallier. Mindanao, Province of 
This Journal, 2 (1907) Botany 376. 
