IX, C, 6 
Merrill: Dilleniaceae Novae 
519 
1 to 1.8 cm long. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, up to 10 
cm long, somewhat pubescent, usually dichotomously branched, 
few-flowered, the pedicels up to 4 cm in length. Flowers white, 
in anthesis about 6 cm in diameter. Sepals subcoriaceous, ex- 
ternally pubescent, concave, rounded, oblong to obovate, persist- 
ent. Petals oblong to obovate-oblong, rounded, about 3 cm long, 
1 cm wide. Stamens indefinite, all equal, about 7 mm long. 
Carpels 4 to 6 ; styles recurved, 6 to 8 mm long. Young fruits 
oblong-lanceolate, compressed, about 12 mm long, the carpels 
more or less cohering axially, apparently dry and dehiscent at 
maturity. 
Mindanao, Butuan Subprovince, near Butuan, For. Bur. 20500 Ponce, 
For. Bur. 2053J,. Miranda (type) , September 3, 1913, in semi-open forests, 
altitude about 20 meters. 
Dedicated to Mr. A. F. Fischer of the Philippine Bureau of Forestry, 
the specific name first being applied to a speciman collected by him on 
the Island of Sibuyan; however the species represented by For. Bur. 18856 
Fischer has recently been described by Mr. Elmer as Wormia sibuyanensis 
=Dillenia sibuyanensis (Elm.) Merr. The present species differs from D. 
sibuyanensis in its larger, quite differently shaped leaves, more ample 
inflorescence, larger flowers, and fewer carpels. 
DILLENIA MEG ALA NTH A sp. nov. § Capellia. 
Arbor alta ramulis junioribus leviter hirsutis exceptis glabra; 
foliis oblongis vel oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 30 cm longis, co- 
riaceis, basi rotundatis, apice breviter acuminatis, margine un- 
dulato-crenatis, nervis utrinque circiter 20, prominentibus, bre- 
viter petiolatis; floribus terminalibus, soltariis vel paucis, mag- 
nis, fiavidis, circiter 20 cm diametro ; antheris exterioribus quam 
interioribus multo brevioribus; carpellis circiter 14. 
A tall tree, quite glabrous except the somewhat hirsute younger 
branchlets, the hairs stiff, pale, mostly at the nodes. Branches 
terete, brown when dry, the ultimate ones about 8 mm in dia- 
meter, marked with rather large petiolar and stipular scars. 
Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, 22 to 25 cm long, 10 to 14 cm 
wide, coriaceous, rather pale when dry, shining, base broadly 
rounded, apex shortly and broadly acuminate, margins coarsely 
undulate-crenate ; lateral nerves about 20 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent, the reticulations rather dense, more prominent 
on the upper than on the lower surface; petioles stout, about 2 
cm long, the stipules obovate, rounded-truncate, more, or less 
narrowed below, about 4 cm long and 3 cm wide, deciduous, free 
from the petioles or but very slightly attached, chartaceous, 
dark-brown when dry. Flowers about 20 cm in diameter, yel- 
low, terminal or in the uppermost axil, solitary, the pedicle stout, 
