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MERRILL. 
Fruit broadly oblong, somewhat compressed, 1.5 cm long, about 1 cm 
wide, somewhat hirsute, strongly reticulate. 
Philippines, without locality, Cuming 1532. Mindoro, Calapan, Merrill 9S7, 
1287, January, April, 1003; Pinamalayan, Fur. Bur. 51/07 Merrill, October, 1906. 
Romblon, Hallier, January, 1904. Masbate, Merrill 3383, November, 1903. 
Cebu, Bur. Sci. 1700 McGregor, September, 1906 (type). Leyte, Palo, Elmer 
7J08. January, 1906. Palawan, Bur. Sci. 729 Foxworthy, March, 1906. 
The specimen collected by Cuming, cited above, has been referred by Bail Ion r ' 
to lodes ovalis Blume, but the Philippine plants appear to differ constantly from 
typical Javan material (PI. Bogor. Exsicc. no. 27) in their differently shaped, 
more cordate and much more acuminate, thinner leaves, less dense pubescence, 
and very different inflorescence, in lodes ovalis the inflorescence being about 20 cm 
long, and in 1. philippinensis never more than 7 cm in length and usually much 
shorter. 
U RAN DR A Thwaites. 
Urandra luzoniensis sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, 12 ad 29 m alta; f ol i is altemis, ellipticis vel obovato- 
ellipticis, subcoriaceis, nitidis, usque ad 15 cm longis, breviter obtuseque 
acuminatis, basi attenuatis; cymis termininalibus 3 ad 6 cm longis; 
floribus 5-meris, ca. 5 mm longis; fructibus oblongo-elji psoideis, 2 ad 
2.5 cm longis. 
A tree, glabrous throughout, except the inflorescence, 12 to 29 m 
high. Branches terete, light-gray, the ultimate bran'chlets usually 
reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, elliptical to obovate-elliptical, sub- 
coriaceous, shining, paler beneath, glabrous, 7 to 15 cm long, 4 to 7.5 
cm wide, the apex shortly and obtusely acuminate, sometimes obtuse, the 
base gradually narrowed and somewhat decurrent-acuminate ; nerves 
about 5 on each side of the midrib,- slender, distinct beneath, ascending, 
the reticulations very lax, nearly obsolete; petioles about 1 cm long. 
Cymes terminal, 3 to 6 cm long, dichotomous, the peduncles 1 to 3 
cm long, the ultimate branches and pedicels more or less ferruginous- 
hirsute. Calyx short, cup-shaped, truncate or obscurely toothed, about 
1.5 mm long and 1.7 mm in diameter. Petals 5, oblong-oblanceolate, 
acute, glabrous, 5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, crested at the apex inside. 
Stamens 5 ; filaments 5 mm long, glabrous below, above on the inner 
side below the anther, and on the back opposite the anther covered with 
long weak hairs; anthers ovoid, 1.2 mm long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; 
style conical. Fruit elliptical-oblong, glabrous,, black when dry, 2 to 
2.5 cm long, about 1 cm in diameter, slightly striate, the exocarp coria- 
ceous, the seed similar in shape to the fruit, 1.5 cm long or less. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, For. Bur. 711, 1926, 291/9 Borden, 
May, September, and March, 1904-05; For. liur. 562, 571/ Barnes, March, 1904: 
Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Merrill 2669, June, 1903; For. Bur. 21/1/5, 2989 Ahern’s 
collector: Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 7077 Klemme, May, 1907. Mindoro, 
For. Bur. 6211/ Merritt, January, 1907. 
5 DC. Prodr. 17 (1873) 
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