IX, C, 4 
Merrill: Philippine Plants, X 
295 
branches 7 cm long or less, the upper gradually shorter. Flowers 
apparently numerous, somewhat crowded at the apices of the 
branchlets, 5-merous, the pedicels very short. Calyx shallow, 
1.5 mm in diameter, 5-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, acute. Petals 
5, imbricate, elliptic-ovate, 2.5 mm long, glandular, glabrous. 
Stamens 10, somewhat 2-seriate; anthers oblong, 1 to 1.2 mm 
long, much longer than the filaments which are somewhat 
enlarged below. Ovary cylindric, prominently rugose, glabrous, 
5-celled. Fruit globose, fleshy, up to 1 cm in diameter, 
with from 1 to 3 seeds; seeds about 7 mm long, the cotyledons 
thick, plano-convex. 
Palawan, Mount Capoas, Merrill 95H, April 21, 1913, on talus slopes, 
steep forested ridge, altitude about 800 meters. 
A species well characterized by its unusually large leaves and leaflets. 
EVODIA Forster 
EVODIA LAXIRETA sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, glabra; foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis 
coriaceis vel subcoriaceis, nitidis, anguste oblongo-obovatis, usque 
ad 12 cm longis, 3 ad 5 cm latis, obtusis, basi sensim angustatis, 
cuneatis; nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 10, prominentibus, 
reticulis laxis, distinctis; inflorescentiis in axillis superioribus, 
anguste paniculatis, circiter 5 cm longis; coccis 1 vel 2, ovoideis 
vel ellipsoideis, circiter 4 mm longis. 
A shrub or small tree, quite glabrous (flowers not seen) ; 
branches terete, pale-brownish, shining, rather stout, wrinkled 
when dry. Leaves 3-foliolate, the petioles 2.5 to 5 cm long; 
leaflets narrowly oblong-obovate, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, 
when dry prominently shining and of about the same color on both 
surfaces, 9 to 12 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, entire, the apex obtuse, 
below gradually narrowed to the acute or cuneate base; lateral 
nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, prominent, anas- 
tomosing, the reticulations lax, the nerves and reticulations 
about equally prominent on both surfaces ; petioles about 1.5 cm 
long. Panicles solitary, in the upper axils, narrowly pyramidal, 
about 5 cm long, shortly peduncled, the branches few, the lower 
ones 1.5 cm long or less. Fruit of 1 or 2 cocci, the cocci ovoid to 
ellipsoid, rounded, about 4 mm long. 
Mindanao, Bukidnon Subprovince, Bur. Sci. 21U07 Escritor, July 27, 
1913, locally known as pamintang gubat. 
Thus species may prove to belong to the genus Melicope when the flowers 
are known. In general it resembles Melicope triphylla (Lam.) Merr., but 
differs in its thicker leaves which are prominently and laxly reticulate 
on both surfaces. 
