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MERRILL. 
A tree about 10 m higli or less. Branches terete, light-gray, glabrous, 
the branehlets slightly hirsute or subglabrous, glandular, often slightly 
compressed. Leaves opposite, simple, the petiole 1.5 to 3 cm long, the 
petiolule 1 to 1.5 cm long, the blade 15 to 23 cm long, 6 to 11 cm wide, 
oblong-elliptical or narrowly obovate-elliptical, subcoriaceous, somewhat 
shining, glabrous above, somewhat pubescent and with prominent glands 
beneath, the apex rounded, sometimes retuse, the base cuneate; nerves 
11 to 18 on each side of the midrib, prominent, anastomosing, the retic- 
ulations distinct, lax. Panicles axillary, many flowered, 13 cm long 
or less, sparingly pubescent. Pedicels about 1 mm long. Calyx 1-lobed, 
broadly ovate, acute, about 0.3 mm long. Petals 4, valvate, the tip 
indexed, narrowly oblong, 3 to 3.5 mm long, about 1 mm wide. Stamens 
8, four with filaments 2.5 to 3.5 mm long, the alternating four with 
filaments 1.5 to 2 mm long; anthers about 0.6 mm long. Ovary villoirs, 
depressed-globose ; styles very short ; stigmas minute. Fruit of 2 to 4 
dehiscent rugose cocci, each coccus about 3 mm in diameter. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens J/.91, April, 1906, also 
no. J/09 bis, March, 1900 and without numbers, May and November, 1906: 
District of Cotabato, For. Bur. 3931 Hutchinson, March, 1906. 
Apparently allied to Melicope helferi Hook, f., but distinct; a species well 
characterized by its simple leaves. 
' PARAMIGNYA Wight. 
Paramignya mindanaensis Merrill sp. nov. 
Scandens, glabra, ramulis fioribusque exceptis; foliis oblongo-ellipticis, 
9 ad 12 cm longis, acuminatis; spinis solitariis, axillaribus, glabris, re- 
cur vis, ca. 1 cm longis; floribus axillaribus; solitariis vel binis, ca. 17 
mm longis; filamentis plus minus pubescentibus. 
A scandent shrub, nearly glabrous, the branches terete, yellowish-green, 
glabrous, slender, the branehlets slightly pubescent. Leaves alternate, 
oblong-elliptical, glabrous, subcoriaceous, 9 to 12 cm long, 3 to 6 cm 
wide, shining, base rounded or acute, apex acuminate ; nerves not prom- 
inent, anastomosing, scarcely more distinct than are the secondary ones 
and reticulations; petioles about 1 cm long; spines axillary, solitary, 
rather stout, glabrous, somewhat recurved, about 1 cm long. Flowers 
axillary, solitary or in pairs, the slender pedicels 1 to 1.5 cm long. 
Calyx cupular, slightly pubescent, about 5 mm long and wide, the 5 
teeth about 1.5 mm long, rounded. Petals white, imbricate, oblong, 
about 12 mm long, 5 mm wide, glabrous. Stamens 10 ; filaments 
thickened, somewhat pubescent, about 7 mm long; anthers 4 mm long. 
Disk cylindrical, about 2 mm long and thick, crenulate. Ovary and style 
about 10 mm long,, somewhat pubescent, the ovary 5-angled, 5-celled, 
