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MERRILL. 
pilosis; floribus sessilibus, 3-meris, spicatis, spicis axillaribus, solitariis, 
4-10 cm longis; fructibus oblongo-ovoideis, 1.5 ad 1.8 cm longis, glabris. 
A tree about 20 m high. Branches light-gray, glabrous, the younger 
ones more or less densely dark-brown- or ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves 
2- to 4- jugate, odd pinnate, about 30 cm long, the petiole and rachis 
rather densely pubescent; leaflets elliptical-oblong to ovate-oblong, coria- 
ceous, shining and glabrous above except on the somewhat pubescent 
midrib, beneath rather strongly pilose on the nerves and reticulations, 
the reticulations rather dense and very prominent, apex acute or short- 
acuminate, base cuneate to somewhat rounded, often inequilateral, margins 
minutely denticulate, 10 to 15 cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide; nerves 
very prominent, 1 6 to 20 on each side of the midrib, spreading, curved, 
parallel, the reticulations subparallel; petiolules pubescent, 5 mm long 
or less. Spikes axillary, solitary, 4 to 10 cm long, usually densely 
pubescent, stout, many flowered. Flowers sessile, buds globose, each sub- 
tended by two or three ovate basal bracteoles about 1.5 mm long. Mature 
flowers not seen. Petals three. Stamens six. Sepals in fruit broadly 
orbicular, rounded, 5 mm wide, 4 mm long, pubescent on both surfaces. 
Fruit oblong-ovoid, 1.5 to. 1.8 cm long, light-gray, rugose, glabrous, obtuse, 
not compressed or angled. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 1150, September, 1907. 
A species well characterized by its very strongly veined and reticulate leaves 
and spicate inflorescence. Mature flowers not available, and therefore its proper 
section is uncertain. 
Canarium dementis Merrill sp. nov. 
Arbor; foliis imparipinnatis, ca. 60 cm longis, 5-jugatis; foliolis ellip- 
tico-oblongis, acutis vel obscure acuminatis, subtus ferrugineo-pubescenti- 
bus, valde reticulatis; inflorescentiis. axillaribus, paniculatis, ca. 30 cm 
longis, inflorescentiae ramis primariis usque ad 15 cm longis; floribus 
trimeris, sessilibus, f asciculatis ; fructibus oblongo-ovoideis, 1 ad 1.5 cm 
longis. 
A large tree, the branches gray, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves 
50 to 70 cm long, odd pinnate, about 5-jugate, the rachis and petiole 
subterete, glabrous or only slightly pubescent when young ; leaflets 
oblong-elliptical, 12 to 24 cm long, 5 to 9 cm wide, acute or obscurely 
short-acuminate, margins obscurely denticulate, base cuneate to obtuse 
frequently somewhat inequilateral; above shining, glabrous or nearly so, 
except the pubescent midrib and nerves, beneath ferruginous and rather 
densely pubescent; nerves 15 to 20 on each side of the midrib, very 
prominent beneath, parallel, spreading, curved, the recticulations promi- 
nent. Panicles axillary, 30 cm long or less, when young densely fer- 
ruginous-pubescent, their primary branches 15 cm long or less. Flowers 
sessile, fasciculate, the buds ovoid. Calyx 3 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, 
pubescent, 3-toothed, teeth ovate, acute, about 1 mm long. Petals 3, 
