NEW PHILIPPINE PLANTS. 
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nearly glabrous, oblong-ovate, acute or obscurely broadly acuminate, 4 mm 
long, 2.5 mm wide. Stamens 6, free; filaments 2 mm long; anthers 1.2 
mm long. Ovary glabrous or nearly so. Disk wanting. Fruit oblong- 
ovoid, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 7 to 8 mm thick, glabrous, rugose, gray, not com- 
pressed or angular. 
Mindanao. Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens s. n., February, March, 
1907, also. no. 7 59, September, 1906, and no. 1175a, September, 1907. 
A species well characterized by its paniculate inflorescence, fasciculate sessile 
flowers, and its leaflets which are usually strongly ferruginous beneath and densely 
pubescent or puberulent. 
SANTIRIA Blume. 
Santiria glabra Merrill sp. nov. § Eusantiria. 
Arbor, omnibus partibus glabratis ; foliis imparipinnatis, 1-3-jugatis, 
foliolis oblongo-ovatis vel oblongis, acuminatis, 6 ad 9 cm longis, nervis 
utrinque ca. 7 ; paniculis axillaribus, e basi ramosis ; floribus minutis, 
antheris dorsiftxis ; staminibus liberis, extra discum insertis. 
A tree, glabrous throughout. Branches light-gray, slender, terete. 
Leaves odd pinnate, 1- to 3-jugate, the rachis and petiole 10 cm 
long or less; leaflets oblong-ovate to oblong, subcoriaceous, shining on 
both surfaces, paler beneath, 6 to 9 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, apex 
rather long and gradually acuminate, the acumen blunt, base acute, often 
somewhat inequilateral; nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, some- 
what prominent beneath, anastomosing, the reticulations lax; petiolules 
about 1 cm long, slender. Panicles axillary, solitary, 4 to 6 cm long, 
branched from the base. Flowers small. Calyx 3-lobed, lobes broadly 
triangular-ovate, acute. Petals 3, orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 2 mm wide at 
the base, about 1.7 mm long. Stamens 6, free, inserted outside the fleshy 
6-ridged disk, filaments very short; anthers 0.5 mm long. Style very 
short. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens s. n., April, 1907. 
A species well characterized by being glabrous throughout; the second one of 
the genus to be found in the Philippines. 
MELIACEiE. 
CLEMEN SIA Merrill gen. nov. 
Flores polygamo-dioici, 8-rneri, majusculi. Calyx cupularis, grosse 
4-dentatus vel lobatus. Petala 8, in aestivatione subvalvata, spatulata, 
inferne cum tubo stamineo plus minus connata. Stamina in ’tubum 
cylindricum, laciniatum, petalis breviorem, intus sub apice 20-antheri- 
ferum coalita, antheris plus minus hirsutis, cum tubi laciniis alternan- 
tibus. Discus in floribus hermaphroditis nullus, in floribus masculinis 
brevissime annulatus. Ovarium liberum, hirsutum, 5-loculare, loculis 
1-ovulatis. Stylus elongatus, hirsutus, stigmate capitato terminatus. 
Fructus indehiscens, 5-locularis. Semina crassa. Cotyledones crassae, 
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