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MERRILL. 
MEMECYLON Linn. 
Memecylon ve nosum Merrill sp. nov. 
Arbor parva; ramulis tenuibus, tetragonis, angustissime 4-alatis; foliis 
subsessilibus, elliptico-ovatis, 6 ad 10 cm longis, valde acuminatis, basi 
late rotundatis vel cordatis, valde 3-nerviis, nervis lateralibus regulariter 
arcuatis; cymis axillaribus; floribus in apice ramulorum capitato- 
nmbellatis. 
A small tree, the branches terete, slender, reddish-brown, the branch- 
lets slender, 4-angled and narrowly winged on the angles. Leaves sub- 
sessile, elliptical-ovate, coriaceous, shining, 6 to 10 cm long, 3 to 5 cm 
wide, the base broad, round or cordate, the apex strongly acuminate, 
acumen blunt, about 1 cm long; primary nerves 8 or 9 on each side of 
the midrib, very prominent, spreading, arcuate-anastomosing and forming 
a pair of lateral nerves, the reticulations coarse, very prominent ; petioles 
very short. Cymes axillary, solitary, about 4 cm long, the peduncles 1.5 
cm long, the branches wliorled, each bearing a subglobose umbellate head 
of many flowers about 1 cm in diameter. Pedicels about 3 mm long. 
Calyx funnel shaped, truncate, 2 nun long and wide. Petals orbicular- 
ovate or subreniform, about 1.3 mm long, sometimes 1.5 mm wide. 
Filaments 2 mm long; anthers 1.2 mm long. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 432, September, 1906, 
also three sheets without numbers, same date and locality. 
A species closely allied to Memecylon paniculatum Jack, differing from that 
species in its differently shaped much more acuminate and shorter leaves, more 
prominent reticulations, and shorter inflorescence. 
ARALIACEFE. 
BOERLAGIODENDRON Harms. 
Boerlag iodendron mindanaense Merrill sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, 5 ad 6 m alta ; foliis fere ad basin palmato 10-14-lobatis, 
coriaceis vel subcoriaceis, basi cordatis, lobis irregulariter et grosse incisis ; 
floribus 5- vel 6-meriS; fructibus in capitula ovoidea vel ellipsoidea 3 acl 
4 cm longa congestis. 
A tree 5 to 6 m high (Copeland), 10 m high (Clemens)), glabrous 
throughout. Leaves 60 cm long or less, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, 
palmately 10- to 14-lobed, the lobes reaching nearly to the base, 8 to 15 
cm wide, oblong, irregularly toothed and coarsely irregularly incised, 
acuminate, the base cordate ; petiole 50 cm long or less, stout, with about 
three prominent crests at the base. Umbels compound, the peduncles 
stout, about 9 cm long, each subtended by oblong, coriaceous, about 3 cm 
long, more or less setose bracts, bearing at the apex a central sessile head 
of sterile flowers, subtended by bracts similar to the basal ones but shorter, 
and two lateral branches about 9 cm long, these lateral branches with a 
