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MERRILL. 
glabrous, slightly clawed. Stamens many, 2.4 mm long, somewhat 
curved, their connectives short, triangular. Carpels indefinite, oblong, 
slightly pubescent, 1-ovuled; styles slender, 1.5 mm long. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9268, 9261 Whitford 
it Hutchinson, January, 1908. 
An undershrub in dipterocarp forests 30 to 60 m above sea level, a species well 
characterized by its very long flowers. 
POLYALTHIA Blume. 
Polyalthia venosa sp. nov. 
Foliis oblongo-ellipticis, acuminatis, valde reticulato venosis, nervis 
utrinque ca. 9 ; floribus axillaribus et caulinis solitariis, pedicellatis ; 
petalis elliptico-ovatis vel lanceolato-ovatis ca. 2 cm longis, pilosis. 
A shrub or small tree 4 m high or less, the branches slender, terete, 
glabrous, brown, the branchlets densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves 
oblong-elliptical, 10 to 1G cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, papyraceous, glabrous 
and shining on both surfaces except the midrib which is slightly pubes- 
cent, paler beneath, the base acute or rounded, apex sharply acuminate; 
nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, distant, very prominent beneath, 
anastomosing, the reticulations very prominent; petioles about 3 mm 
long, densely pubescent. Flowers solitary, from the leaf-axils on the 
ultimate branchlets and from tubercles on the trunk, their pedicels slen- 
der, 1.5 to 3.5 cm long, densely ferruginous-pilose. Sepals 3, free, ovate, 
about 8 mm long, 6 mm wide, slightly narrowed below, apex acute, 7- 
nerved, pilose outside, glabrous within. Petals 6, elliptical-ovate to 
lanceolate-ovate, about 2 cm long, 6 to 11 mm wide, the inner three 
slightly narrower than the outer ones, somewhat narrowed below, apex 
acute, glabrous inside, rather densely pilose or pilose-hirsute outside. 
Stamens indefinite, 2 mm long, the anthers concealed by the truncate 
overlapping connectives. Carpels many, oblong, appressed-hirsute, 2 
mm long; stigmas ellipsoid, pubescent; styles very short or none; ovules 
2, subbasal. Fruit ellipsoid or ovoid, about 1 cm long, apiculate, slightly 
pubescent, each with two seeds. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9108, 9232 Whitford 
it- Hutchinson, December, 1907, in dipterocarp forests 15 to 30 m above sea level. 
A species well characterized by its pilose flowers which are both axillary and 
cauline, and by its strongly nerved leaves. 
Polyalthia elongata sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra; foliis oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, coriaceis, 30 ad 
35 cm longis, basi cordatis, nervis utrinque ca. 16 ; petalis 4 ad 4.5 cm 
longis, oblongo-lanceolatis, glabris vel sparse pubeseentibus. 
A tree 16 m high, glabrous or nearly so throughout, the branches 
grayish-brown, rather slender, terete. Leaves 30 to 35 cm long, about 
11 cm wide, coriaceous, shining, the base broad, cordate, the apex 
acuminate; nerves about 16 on each side of the midrib, very prominent 
