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MERRILL. 
Petals 4, oblong ox - oblong-ovate, about 5 xnm long, 2.2 to 2.5 mm wide, 
apex acute, minutely appendaged inside. Stamens 4, the filaments stout, 
2 mm long, bearing imperfect, oblong, 1 mm long anthers. Ovary pubes- 
cent, deeply 4-lobed, 4-celled, each cell 2-ovuled ; style stout, 3 mm long, 
pubescent; stigma subcapitate. Staminate flowers and fruits unknown. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Sorsogon, For. Bur. 10520 Curran, June 10, 1908, 
near abaca (Musa teaotilis) plantations, altitude about 200 m. 
A species well characterized by its abruptly acuminate leaflets, 3-foliolate and 
1-foliolate leaves occurring on the same branches, its rather small, rather long- 
peduncled cymes, and comparatively large flowers. It is apparently as closely 
allied to Evodia glabra Bl., as to any other species, but is quite different 
from that. 
MELIACEiE. 
AGLAIA Lour. 
Aglaia lanceolata sp. nov. § Euaglaia. 
Arbor parva vel arbuscula, ramulis foliis j uniori'bus inflorescentiisque 
densissime brunneo-lepidotis; foliis alternis, imparipinnatis, foliolis 7 
ad 11, anguste lanceolatis, membranaceis vel chart aceis, apice sensim 
acuminatis, basi inaequilateralibus, acutis vel acuminatis, in sicco pallidis, 
nitidis, utrinque praesertim subtus plus minus brunneo-lepidotis ; pani- 
culis axillai’ibus terminalibusque, foliis subaequalibus vel brevioribus, 
diffusis, multifloris ; floribus minutis, 5-meris, racemose dispositis, breviter 
pedicellatis, tubo stamineo libero. 
A small tree or shrub (2 m high according to the collector), all parts 
more or less brown-lepidote, the branchlets, infloi'escence and young 
leaves densely so. Branches terete, gray or brownish, ultimately gla- 
brous. Leaves alternate, 20 to 30 cm long, the rachis at first lepidote, 
ultimately glabrous or neai’ly so. Leaflets 7 to 11, alternate, or the 
upper ones opposite, narrowly lanceolate, 8 to 12 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cm 
wide, rather pale and somewhat shining when dry, the young ones 
densely brown-lepidote on both surfaces, the mature ones ultimately nearly 
glabrous, the apex narrowly and gradually acuminate, the base inequi- 
lateral, acute or acuminate ; nerves 15 to 20 on each side of the midrib, 
indistinct; petiolules about 2 mm long. Panicles axillary and terminal, 
about 15 cm long, pyramidal, diffuse, branched from the base, all parts 
densely brown-lepidote. Flowers 5-merous, small, racemosely disposed 
on the ultimate branchlets, very numerous, their pedicels about 1 mm 
long. Calyx-lobes lepidote, rounded, 0.5 mm long. Petals glabi’ous, 
orbicular or orbicular-elliptic, about 1 mm long. Staminal-tube globose, 
.glabrous, free from the petals, crenate at the apex;’ stamens 5, inserted 
at about the middle of the tube, included. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, Amucucan, near Bayombong, Bur. Sci. 811/1 
Ramos, May 13, 1909, in forests along streams. 
A species manifestly allied to Aglaia angustifolia (Miq.) C. DC., but abundantly 
distinct, well characterized by its narrowly lanceolate leaves. 
