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MERRILL. 
cireiter 17, prominentibus ; inflorescentiis masculinis axillaribus vel pseucl- 
oterminalibus, elongatis, floribus in glomerulis congestis, pins minus 
stellato-ferrugineo-pubescentibus ; staminibus cireiter 12. 
A subglabrous tree 8 to 12 m high. Branches light-gray or brownish- 
gray, glabrous, striate, lenticellate, the young branehlets ferruginous- 
stellate-pubescent. Leaves alternate, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 15 to 30 
cm long, 6 to 13 cm wide, brownish and shining when dry, glabrous or 
with very few scattered stellate hairs beneath, the base acute or some- 
what acuminate, the apex short-acuminate, margins coarsely and irreg- 
ularly crenate-serrate, the teeth bearing glands at their apices; nerves 
about 17 on each side of the midrib, prominent, the primary reticulations _ 
rather distinct, the ultimate ones faint ; petioles 4 to 7 cm long, glabrous 
or with few, scattered, stellate hairs, frequently slightly geniculate at 
the apex. Staminate inflorescence axillary and pseudoterminal, slender, 
elongated, 20 to 40 cm long, the branches few, short, the flowers densely 
crowded in reduced, scattered cymes, glomerate, the racliis and branches 
ultimately glabrous or nearly so, the younger parts more or less stellate- 
or furfuraceous-pubescent. Buds more or less trigonous; sepals (in bud) 
orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 3 mm long, strongly imbricate, the exposed por- 
tions densely stellate-pubescent. Petals similar but glabrous, and in 
bud somewhat smaller. Stamens about 12. Pistillate flowers and fruit 
unknown. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Aparri, For. Bur. 11271. April 190S; San Vicente, 
For. Bur. 7078 Klemme, May, 1907. In dense forests 20 to 65 m above seadevel, 
known to the Negritos as Tagalipa and Aguindulong . 
The genus is new to the Philippines. 
STROPH IOBLACH I A Boerl. 
Stroph ioblach ia fimbricalyx Boerl. Handl. FI. Nederl. Ind. 3 1 (1900) 236. 
Palawan, For. Bur. 1)501), 71)58 Curran, June, 1905, 1900, Bur. Sci. 21)1 Bcr- 
mejos, near the seashore. Mindanao, district of Zamboanga, Mearns 111), Jan- 
uary, 1904. 
An interesting addition to the Philippine flora, and especially to the long 
list of species known only from the Philippines and Celebes. A monotypic genus 
known previously only from Celebes. 
ANACARDIACE2E. 
PLEIOGYN I U M Engl. 
P. solanderi (Benth.) Engl, in DC. Monog. Phan. 4 (1883) 255. 
Spondias solanderi Benth. FI. Austral. 1 (1863) 492. 
Spondias pleiogyna F. Muell. Fragm. 4:78. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, For. Bur. 2166, 3168 Ahern’s collector, December, 
1904, and June, 1905, the former, with mature fruits, from Tanay, the latter, 
with staminate flowers from Antipolo. 
A monotypic genus, previously known only from northern Australia, and its 
