IX, C, 6 
Merrill: Meliaceae Novae 
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up to 30 cm long, densely cupreous-lepidote, pyramidal, many 
flowered, the lower branches up to 15 cm long, spreading, the 
upper gradually shorter, scattered. Flowers 5-merous, sessile, 
spicately disposed on the ultimate branchlets, in young panicles 
somewhat crowded and subglomerate. Calyx densely cupreous- 
lepidote, cup-shaped, about 1.5 mm in diameter. Petals 5, ob- 
long-elliptic to elliptic-obovate, glabrous, free, about 2 mm long. 
Staminal tube turbinate-obovoid, truncate, free, about 1.5 mm 
in diameter; anthers 5, included, broadly ovoid, about 0.8 mm 
long. Ovary densely lepidote, the scales minutely ciliate. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9208 Whitford 
& Hutchinson (type), January, 1908. Basilan, Hallier s. n., January, 
1904, For. Bur. 189 64. Miranda, September 30, 1912. 
This species grows in forests at low altitudes and is known at Port 
Banga as bancogniau, while the name given on one of the Basilan specimens 
is tocang calao. Its alliance is with Aglaia argentea Blume, from which 
it is at once distinguished by its much more numerous leaflets and more 
numerous nerves. It is more closely allied to the Philippine Aglaia clarkii 
Merr., from which it is distinguished by its quite different indumentum, 
differently shaped leaflets, and fewer lateral nerves. 
AGLAIA STELLATO-TOMENTOSA sp. nov. § Euaglaia ? 
Arbor circiter 15 m alta partibus junioribus subtus foliolis 
inflorescentiisque dense pallide stellato-tomentosis ; foliis alternis, 
usque ad 1 m longis, foliolis circiter 15, oppositis vel subopositis, 
chartaceis, usque ad 30 cm longis, oblongis, acuminatis, basi 
rotundatis ad leviter cordatis, supra glabris, nitidis, subtus 
densissime stellato-tomentosis, nervis utrinque 25 ad 30, prom- 
inentibus; fructibus paniculatis vel racemosis, obovoideis, usque 
ad 2 cm longis, densissime stellato-tomentosis. 
A tree about 15 m high, the younger parts, inflorescence, and 
lower surfaces of the leaflets densely stellate-tomentose, the 
indumentum pale, sometimes somewhat ferruginous on the 
younger parts. Branchlets stout, the ultimate ones about 1.5 
cm in diameter, ferruginous stellate-tomentose. Leaves alter- 
nate, up to 1 m in length, the petioles very stout, about 20 
cm long, and with the rachis, at least when young, very densely 
stellate-tomentose with usually pale, rarely somewhat ferruginous 
hairs. Leaflets about 15, oblong, chartaceous, opposite or sub- 
opposite, 20 to 30 cm long, 6 to 10 m wide, apex rather shortly 
acuminate, base broadly rounded to subcordate, the upper surface 
glabrous, pale or olivaceous, shining, the lower surface densely 
stellate-tomentose, pale; lateral nerves 25 to 30 on each side of 
the midrib, prominent, the reticulations obscure on the upper 
surface, entirely obscured by the indumentum on the lower 
surface. Flowers not seen, the inflorescence axillary, solitary, 
