NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 
277 
Leyte, Palo, Elmer 7245, January, 1906, type number. 
This species was originally described by Mr. Elmer as a Pimelodendron, but the 
presence of two seeds in each cell of the mature fruit excludes it at once from 
that genus and all allied ones. It seems, however, to be referable to Aetephila, 
and to be closely allied to Aotepliila gigantifolia Koorders of Celebes, but the 
latter species is described as having the leaves abruptly long-acuminate. The 
five small calyx- segments described by Mr. Elmer are the squamiform petals, the 
sepals and petals persisting on the mature fruit. 
BACCAUREA Lour. 
B. lanceolata (Miq.) Muell. Arg. in PC. Prodr. 1 5 2 (1862) 457. 
Hedycarpus lanceolatus Miq. El. Ind. Bat. 1- (1859) 359. 
Palawan, San Antonio Bay, Merrill 853, February, 1903. 
Java and Borneo. 
The above specimen has somewhat larger leaves than the plants described by 
Muller-Arg., but seems to be the same species. New to the Philippines. 
BLACHIA Baill. 
Blachia philippinensis sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, monoica, circiter 5 m alta; foliis alternis, chartaceis vel 
submembranaceis, oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 13 cm longis, acuminatis, basi 
acutis vel obtusis, rtervis utrinque circiter 6; floribus umbellatis, umbellis 
axillaribus terminalibusque ; petalis obovatis, hyalinis et glandulis aequi- 
longis; staminibus 20, liberis; st}dis revolutis. 
A glabrous monoecious tree about 5 m high. Branches slender, terete, 
brownish, the branchlets reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, chartaceous 
or submembranaceous, oblong-ovate, 7 to 13 cm long, 2.5 to 4.5 cm wide, 
brown or greenish when dry, shining, the apex rather prominently 
acuminate, the base acute or obtuse; nerves about 6 on each side of the 
midrib, the reticulations lax; petioles 5 mm long or less. Inflorescence 
axillary and terminal, the staminate umbels long-pedunclecl, the peduncles 
slender, 2 to 3 cm long, each bearing about 12 flowers, the pedicels about 8 
mm long. Sepals 5, obovate to elliptic-obovate, 2 mm long, thin, obtuse, 
imbricate. Petals 5, hyaline, obovate, 1 mm long, broadly rounded at 
the apex or slightly retuse, not longer than the disk-glands. Stamens 
20; filaments 2 mm long, slender; anthers obovoid, 0.3 mm long. Disk- 
glands quadrangular, truncate. Pistillate flowers in subSessile umbels at 
the base of the staminate inflorescence. Sepals 5, free, lanceolate, some- 
what acuminate, 2 mm long, more or less accrescent. Ovary narrow, 
subglabrous, 3-celled, each cell 1-ovuled ; styles three, elongated, cleft, the 
style-arms revolute. 
Palawan, near Puerto Prineesa, For. Bur. 4128 Curran, April, 1906. Luzon, 
Province of Pangasinan, For. Bur. 8369 Curran d Merritt, December, 1907 : 
Province of Ilocos Norte, Cape Bojeador, For. Bur. 13829 Merritt d Darling, 
November, 1908. 
The first representative of the genus to be found in the Philippines, and ap- 
parently distinct from all previously described forms. 
