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Inflorescences axillary, extra-axillary, or below the leaves, 1- to 3- 
flowered, the woody peduncles 2 to 3 mm long, forking except when 
1-flowered into branches like themselves ; pedicels slender, 2 to 3 cm 
long, bracted at the base and again 5 to 8 mm above it, the bracts obovate 
to suborbieular, about 2 mm long, decurrent at the base, like the pedun- 
cles and pedicels, more or less ferruginous-pubescent: sepals 3, free nearly 
to the base, broadly oval, 7 mm long, pubescent on the outer surface ; 
petals 6, valvate in bud, in flower the 3 outer 2.5 to over 4 cm long in 
different flowers, the basal 6.5 mm slightly concave, orbicular-ovate, 
forming a slight ridge on the inner surface, the limb spreading, flat, 
about 1 cm wide, narrowly elliptic, obtuse, the inner 3 petals slightly 
longer than the outer but the limb only half as wide, the concave bases 
more or less adnate at the neck and completely covering the stamens 
and carpels, all petals slightly pubescent on the outer surface; stamens 
numerous, about 1 mm long, the connective slightly produced and 
covering the apex of the anthers ; carpels several, densely pubescent, about 
1.5 mm long, usually 4-ovuled; fruiting carpels seen up to 15 in number, 
and up to 7.5 mm long though probably still immature, the cavity dividing 
into 2 or 3 compartments. 
Probably a tree: the branchlets covered with dark-brownish or black 
bark, nearly glabrous except toward the extremities : petioles 1.5 to 2.5 
cm long, the lamina thinly chartaceous; narrowly oblong-obovate or rarely 
oval, 10 to 19 cm long, 6 to 7.5 cm wide, the base acute, the apex abruptly 
contracted into a slender obtuse acumen 5 to 15 mm long, more or less 
pubescent on the under surface of the midrib, otherwise glabrous ; primary 
lateral veins on each side of the midrib 6 or 7, projecting on the under 
surface, both they and the finer reticulations conspicuous on both surfaces. 
Poliluo, Bur. S'ei. 10353 McGregor. Allied to D. ramuliflorus Maingay and 
D. ph ilippinensis Merr., differing from both in its longer flowers and pedicels, 
and from the former in the more numerous carpels. The fourth species of the 
genus, the second for the Philippines. 
Polyalthia oblongifolia sp. nov. 
Arbor : inflorescentiis ramifloris paucifloris pubescentibus ; floribus viri- 
dibus, trimeris, petalis in alabastro valvatis, exterioribus quam interiores 
paullo longioribus sed angustioribus haud genitalia oceultantibus : foliis 
breviter petiolatis, glabris, oblongis vel anguste oblongo-ovatis, basi rotun- 
datis, venis utrinque circiter 12. 
Inflorescences on tubercles on the branches below the leaves, 1- to 4- 
flowered, the pedicels fascicled, 4 to 15 mm long, with bracts at the base 
and usually also on the pedicels broadly ovate, clasping, obtuse, 1 to 2 
mm long, the bracts pedicels sepals and the outer surface of the petals 
densely but shortly ferruginous-pubescent, the inner surface of the petals 
less so; sepals 3, semicircular, obtuse, 2.5 mm long, 4.5 mm wide; outer 
