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ate flowers somewhat fascicled on the ultimate branchlets, their pedicels 
1.5 to 2 mm long, glabrous. Sepals 4, ovate, acute, 0.8 mm long. 
Petals 4, oblong, 3 mm long, 1 to 1.3 mm wide, thin, obtuse, the apex 
appendiculate -inside. Stamens 8, the filaments rather densely clothed 
with spreading hairs in the lower half, the longer four 3 mm, the shorter 
four 2 mm in length; anthers 0.8 mm long. Pistillate flowers similar 
to the staminate ones, the staminodes slightly pubescent. Ovary ovoid, 
glabrous, 1.2 mm long, glabrous, deeply longitudinally 4-suleate, 4-eelled, 
each cell 2-ovuled; style very short (less than 0.5 mm) ; stigma radiately 
4-lobed. 
Batanes Islands, Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. Sci. 3235 Mearns, 
Bur. Sci. 3603 F6nix, Bur. Sci. 10682 McGregor, locally known as idacacayo: 
Sabtan, Bur. Sci. 10676 McGregor. 
Some of these specimens were previously referred by me 1 to Melicope luzonensis 
Engl., but they are sufficiently distinct to warrant description as a separate 
species. M. densiflora is distinguished from M. luzonensis Engl, by its differently 
shaped and fewer nerved leaves, its dense inflorescence, and especially by its pilose 
filaments and staminodes. Bur. Sci. 3215 Mearns is possibly referable here, but 
its filaments seem to be quite glabrous. 
EVODIA Forst. 
Evodia acuminata sp. nov. 
Arbor inflorescentiis exeeptis glabra, circiter 10 m alta; foliis trifo- • 
liolatis vel aliis unifoliatis, foliolis subcoriaeeis, oblongo-obovatis, nitidis, 
basi acuminatis, apice abrupte subcaudato-acuminatis, acuminibus circiter 
1 cm longis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, pedunculatis,- 6 ad 8 cm longis; 
floribus 4-meris, sepalis petalisque glanduloso-punctatis. 
A tree about 10 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence, the ultimate 
branchlets, petioles and under surfaces of the leaves distinctly glandular- 
punctate, the branches terete, smooth, pale-brownish, the ultimate branch- 
lets somewhat compressed. Leaves opposite, the petioles 6 to 9 cm long, 
or those of unifoliolate leaves only about 2 cm long; leaflets usually 
three, sometimes solitary, oblong-obovate, ■ subcoriaceous, shining, paler 
beneath, 9 to 14 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, entire, the apex broad, 
abruptly subcaudate-acuminate, the acumen about 1 cm long, the base 
decurrent-acuminafe, the 'lateral leaflets somewhat inequilateral; petio- 
lules 0.5 to 1.5 cm long; primary lateral nerves 8 or 9 on each side of 
the midrib, distant, irregular, anastomosing, the secondary ones often 
nearly as prominent. Cymes axillary, peduncled, the peduncles 3.5 to 
5 cm long, solitary, glabrous, each cyme about 3 cm wide, the branches 
and branchlets emerous-puberulent. Flowers white, somewhat crowded, 
their pedicels 3 to 4 mm long, puberulent, each subtended by two of 
three, ovate, 1 mm long braeteoles. Sepals 4, orbicular, imbricate, about 
3 mm in diameter, rounded, glandular-punctate, margins minutely ciliate. 
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1 This Journal 3 (1908) Botany 411. 
