336 
MERRILL. 
A small glabrous tree 6 to 10 m high, the branches slender, 
terete, dark-reddish-brown, often nearly black when dry. 
Leaves lanceolate, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, narrowed and 
more or less acuminate at both ends, shining when dry, the 
lower surface paler than the upper one, 5 to 8 cm long, 0.7 to 
1.5 cm wide; nerves 6 or 7 on each side of the midrib, slender, 
distant, spreading, anastomosing, not glandular in the axils, the 
reticulations obsolete or nearly so; petioles 5 to 10 mm long. 
Flowers white or yellowish, fragrant, axillary, fascicled, few 
to many in an axil, or sometimes in a very dense, fascicle- 
like, reduced and very shortly peduncled cyme, the pedicels 
slender, 5 to 8 mm long. Sepals slightly pubescent, triangular- 
ovate, acute, about 1.5 mm long, imbricate. Corolla-tube 5 mm 
long, inflated below, narrowed above and constricted at the apex, 
the lobes spreading, oblong-ovate, obtuse, falcate, 6 to 7 mm long, 
about 3.5 mm wide, somewhat villous on the inner surface. 
Stamens lanceolate, acuminate, slightly hairy on the back, the 
base of the connective with a rather large gland. Style slender, 
5 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Sorsogon, For. Bur. 10507 Curran, June, 
1908, in thickets, altitude about 300 m; near Pilar, For. Bur. 15077 
Rosenbluth (type) , April 15, 1909, in flat lands not far back of the limits 
of high tide, locally known as lanete. 
A species well characterized by its small lanceolate leaves, probably 
most closely allied to Vallaris lancifolia Hook, f., of the Malay Peninsula, 
but very different from that species. The first representative of the 
genus to be reported from the Philippines other than an undetermined 
form, Vidal 3278, from the Province of Albay, reported as Vallaris sp. by 
Ceron.’° 
VOACANGA Thouars. 
VOACANGA MEGACARPA sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra usque ad 10 m alta; foliis oblongis vel anguste 
oblongo-obovatis, breviter acuminatis, basi acutis, petiolatis, 15 
ad 30 cm longis, nervis utrinque 10 ad 14 ; paniculis axillaribus, 
longe pedunculatis, dichotomis, paucifloris; calycibus 2 ad 3 cm 
longis, profunde 5-lobatis ; corolla alba, tubo circiter 3 cm longo, 
contorto, lobis late oblique ovatis, usque ad 4 cm longis; fruc- 
tibus globosis, usque ad 10 cm diametro. 
A glabrous tree 5 to 10 m high, the branches pale-gray. 
Leaves oblong to narrowly oblong-obovate, 15 to 30 cm long, 
6 to 12 cm wide, entire, apex shortly and rather abruptly acum- 
inate, base narrowed, cuneate; nerves 10 to 14 on each side 
Cat. PI. Herb. (Manila) (1892) 115. 
