PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 
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broadly rounded, the base usually narrowed, acute, glabrous and 
shining on both surfaces, when dry the upper surface rather 
pale, the lower one much paler and somewhat glaucous; nerves 
about 8 on each side of the midrib, curved-ascending, anastomos- 
ing, distinct on the lower surface, the primary reticulations lax, 
leaving the nerves at right angles, the ultimate reticulations 
obscure; petioles 5 to 7 mm long. Panicles terminal and in the 
upper axils, sparingly hirsute with short, scattered, pale-brownish 
hairs, lax, pyramidal, 12 to 20 cm in length, the lower branches 
up to 10 cm in length. Male flowers in scattered fascicles which 
are racemosely arranged on the ultimate branches, their pedicels 
slender, 1.5 to 2 mm long, the bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, 0.5 
mm long. Calyx 1.5 mm in diameter, 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, 
obtuse, 0.5 mm long. Petals oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute, 1.8 
mm long. Disk somewhat ferruginous-pubescent. Anthers 1 
mm long. 
Palawan, Mount Victoria, Bur. Sci. 570 Foxworthy March 25, 1906, on 
river banks, altitude about 180 meters. 
A very distinct species, characterized by its small, few-nerved leaves 
which are broadly rounded at their apices, and by its lax panicles, the 
flowers being distinctly and slenderly pedicelled. 
SEMECARPUS PILOSA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva ut videtur S. cuneiformis affinis, differt foliis sub- 
tus densissime pilosis, paniculis ferrugineo-pilosis. 
A tree apparently of small size, the branches stout, pubescent. 
Leaves more or less crowded at the ends of the branches, thickly 
coriaceous, oblong-obovate, 9 to 20 cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide, the 
apex broadly rounded, sometimes retuse, narrowed below to the 
abruptly obtuse, not at all decurrent base, the upper surface 
somewhat grayish when dry, shining, quite glabrous except for 
the more or less pubescent midrib, the lower surface densely 
pilose, paler than the upper one; lateral nerves 13 to 16 on 
each side of the midrib, very prominent, spreading, somewhat 
curved and anastomosing, the secondary nerves leaving them 
at right angles, subparallel, distinct; petioles stout, pubescent, 
8 to 10 mm long. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, ferruginous- 
pilose, about 15 cm long, the branches spreading, the lower ones 
about 8 cm in length. Petals 5, ovate to oblong-ovate, somewhat 
acuminate, 2.5 mm long. Ovary ovoid, densely fulvous-villous. 
Hypocarpium, when fresh, orange-yellow, when dry about 4 
mm long nearly as thick as the drupe, more or less ferruginous- 
pubescent, the drupe slightly compressed, obliquely ovoid, obtuse. 
