THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
Vol. IX AUGUST, 1914 No. 4 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, X 
By. E. D. Merrill * 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of 
Science, Manila, P. I.) 
(Concluded) 
RUTACEAE 
ATALANTIA Correa 
ATALANTIA MARITIMA sp. nov. 
Species A. distichae (Blanco) Merr. affinis, differt foliis ellip- 
ticis haud prominente acuminatis, margine leviter crenulatis 
vix integris. 
An unarmed shrub or small tree 2 to 6 m in height, glabrous 
except the inflorescence, or the younger branchlets sometimes 
slightly pubescent. Branches terete, slender, usually reddish- 
brown when dry, the branchlets greenish or straw-colored and 
more or less angled or compressed near the nodes. Leaves 
alternate, subcoriaceous or coriaceous, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 
shining, rather pale when dry and of nearly the same color 
on both surfaces, 5 to 10 cm long, 2.5 to 6 cm wide, subequally 
narrowed at both ends, the base acute, the apex obtuse and dis- 
tinctly retuse, not gradually narrowed to an acumen, the margins 
above distinctly but distantly crenulate, not entire, glandular- 
punctate beneath; lateral nerves very numerous, close; petioles 
5 to 10 mm long. Panicles axillary and terminal, 3 to 6 cm long, 
pubescent, many-flowered, narrow, the lower branches 2 cm long 
or less, the panicles usually larger in fruit and up to 11 cm in 
length. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx pubescent, cup-shaped, about 
* Associate Professor of Botany, University of the Philippines, Manila, 
P. I. 
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