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MERRILL. 
long, the rachis and petiolules rather densely f erruginous-lepidote ; leaf- 
lets subcoriaceous, 2- jugate, 7 to 10 cm long, 2.4 to 5 cm wide, elliptical- 
oblong, pale, glabrous above, beneath somewhat ferruginous-lepidote, base 
acute, equal, apex acuminate; nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib; 
petiolules 2 to 5 hum long. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, about as long 
as the leaves, densely ferruginous-lepidote throughout, branched from 
near the base, the lower branches about 7 cm long, the upper ones grad- 
ually shorter, the branchlets densely many-flowered. Flowers yellowish, 
fragrant, about 1 mm long, the buds globose, subsessile. Calyx 5-toothed, 
lepidote. Petals 5, glabrous, about 1 mm long. Stamina! tube about 
0.8 mm long, crenate, glabrous, bearing on its margin 5 sessile anthers. 
Balabac, Bur. Sci. I/J/G Mangubnt, March, 1906. 
A species apparently allied to Aglaia cumingiana Turcz., and to A. harrnsiana 
Perk., differing from the former in its densely lepidote inflorescence, nearly sessile 
flowers which are densely disposed, and its acuminate leaflets, and from the 
latter by having only two pairs of shorter leaflets, shorter panicles, and dif- 
ferent indumentum, the branches and leaves in the species above described not 
being at all stellate-tomentose-lepidote, the scales being appressed and entire or 
only very minutely ciliate. 
EUPHOBB I ACE2E. 
OMPHALEA I jinn. 
Omphalea ph il ipp inensis sp. nov. 
Scandens, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra ; foliis coriaceis oblongo-lan- 
c-eolatis, acuminatis, nitidis, basi supra 2-glanclulosis ; floribus pedicel- 
latis, minutis; fructibus dehiscentibus, 2.5 ad 3 cm longis. 
A large woody vine, glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches 
terete, somewhat rugose-striate when dry, glabrous, liglit-gray or yellowish. 
Leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 12 to 22 cm long, 3 to 7 cm wide, 
coriaceous, glabrous, shining, pale in drying, the margins entire, some- 
what recurved, apex rather abruptly acuminate, the acumen 1 cm long 
or less, blunt, the base acute or obtuse; nerves about 9 on each side of 
the midrib, prominent beneath, curved, the reticulations distinct on 
both surfaces; petioles stout, 1.5 to. 3. 5 cm long, with two prominent 
glands on the upper surface at the juncture with the leaf. Inflorescence 
axillary, paniculate, about 40 cm long (or longer?), somewhat ferrugi- 
nous-hirsute, the branches stout, spreading, the flowers many, pedicelied. 
fasciculate, the pedicels slender, thickened upwards, 6 to 7 mm long. 
Buds globose, 1.5 to 2 mm in diameter. Sepals 5, imbricate, glabrous, 
obovate or orbicular, about 2 mm long. Petals wanting. Anthers sessile. 
Pistillate flowers not seen. Fruit dehiscent, 2.5 to 3 cm long, the valves 
twisting in dehiscence, firmly coriaceous, glabrous, gray, the seeds 
