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outer surface and ciliate on the margins; petals 3, white, broadly oval 
with involute margins, 5 mm long, 4 mm wide, very obtuse, glabrous; 
tube campanulate, over 3 mm long, at first entire, later parted to the 
middle into 6 obtuse ovate or lanceolate lobes; anthers 6, dorsally at- 
tached at the level of the base of the lobes, nearly 3 mm long, oblanceolate ; 
ovary rudimentary. 
A shrub, 2 m high, its stems about 3 cm in diameter, covered at the 
apex with reddish-brown, densely short-pubescent bark: leaves 50 to 80 
cm long (excluding the leaflets), the petiole conspicuously enlarged at 
the base, at the first leaflets 5 to 6 mm in diameter, together with the 
rachis and petiolules more or less densely short-pubescent, petiolules un- 
equal, 4 to 17 mm long, that of the odd leaflet 15 to 40 mm long, other 
leaflets 6 pairs, ehartaeeous, varying from oblanceolate through oblong to 
lanceolate, 11.5 to 32 cm long, 5 to 11 cm wide, acute* on both sides at 
the inequilateral base, the apex forming an obtuse acumen 1 to 1.5 cm 
long; primary lateral veins 11 to 16, nearly straight near the midvein, 
arched toward the margins, the secondary, both those arising from the 
midvein and those at right angles to the primary, sufficiently conspicuous 
on both surfaces, the veins of the under surface pubescent like the petioles. 
Polillo, in forest east of the town, at an elevation of 20 m, Bwr. Sci. 6939 
Robinson. To this almost certainly is to be referred Ahern 324, from Surigao, 
Mindanao, differing chiefly in the less conspicuous . secondary venation of the 
glabrous leaflets. The nearest alliance among described species seems to be with 
A. perrottetiana C. DC., from which it is easily distinguishable by the texture 
and other characters of the leaflets. Closely allied forms, though probably specifi- 
cally distinct, have been collected in Iloeos Norte, Leyte, and Mindoro. 
Dysoxylum altissimum Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 72. 
This species is definitely known only in the flowering condition from Bataan, 
but 10233 with detached fruits is otherwise a good match. The walls of the 
globose fruits split nearly to the base into 4 elliptic valves, the scarlet-vermilion 
seeds are 3 cm long. The Polillo specimen is also fairly well matched by Min- 
danao material, which is probably distinct from the Bataan species. 
Another species of this genus seems to be represented by 10710, also fruiting, 
more closely resembling D. venosum Merr., from Cagayan, than any other, but 
still not perfectly. 
Other species: Sandoricum indicum Cav., 6996: Xylocarpus obovatus A. Juss., 
9268. 
MALPIGI-HIACEAE. 
Tristellaieia australis A. Rich., 6952, 10435. 
EUPHOEBIACEAE. 
Antidesma macgregorii sp. nov. 
Arbuscula : inflorescentiis staminiferis spicatis, floribus haud confer- 
tis, sessilibus, bracteis ovatis, ciliatis; ealyce diseoque obscure 4-lobatis, 
hoc glabra ; staminibus 4 : f oliis saepissime ellipticis, utrinque attenuatis, 
basi acutis, apice acute acuminatis; venis utrinque circiter 7, laxe anas- 
tomosantibus, conspicuis. 
