The Philippine journal of science. [Vol. 67, no. 1]

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10 outer stamens on very short filaments; prolongation of connective short, conical. Ovary more or less immersed in receptacle, tomentose with stellate hairs; style glabrous, 5-ribbed;
stigma of 5 conical lobes. Fruit about 4 mm in diameter, free
from calyx. Fruiting calyx with two long wings, 3.5 to 5 cm
long, 12 to 18 mm wide, with about 5 principal longitudinal
nerves; 3 shorter wings 10 to 18 mm long, 3 to 4 mm wide, with
3 or 4 principal longitudinal veins. Wings membranous or
chartaceous.
There is no type material extant and Blanco's description
leaves much to be desired. Merrill 68 indicates that he thinks
the correctness of the reference of this form to Blanco's species
doubtful, but this is the form to which the material has usually
been referred; Merrill 9 has distributed illustrative material
of it.
This tree is of scattered occurrence, in lowland or ridge forest,
from sea level up to an altitude of 500 m. It has been known
to occur down to the forest edge of the beach. It is very widely
distributed in the Archipelago, from the Babuyanes Islands
to Basilan, in seasonal and nonseasonal regions. It is also known
from Sarawak and British North Borneo.
2. VATICA WHITFORDII Foxworthy sp. nov. ~ Synaptea. Plate 8.
Arbor mediocris. Folia elliptica, glaberrima, superne nitida,
inferne opaca, acuta, petiolis tomentosis, nervi secundarii utrinque 8, nervis tertiariis reticulatis. Paniculae axillares et terminales pilis stellatis obtectae. Calycis segmenta triangularia
ovata, extus pilis stellatis tecta. Petala lineari-oblonga, acuta,
extus pubescente. Stamina 15, antherae brevae et latae. Ovarium a pilis stellatis tectum, stylo glabro, stigmate capitate.
Fructus ovatus, sepalis 2 oblongis 3 cm longis, 3 lanceolatis 1 ad
2 cm longis.
Trees of medium size, up to 20 m tall and 40 cm in diameter.
Young twigs ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves glabrous, 5 to 10
cm long, 2 to 5.5 cm wide, elliptic, blunt or subacute at apex,
rounded or subcuneate at base, shiny above, dull beneath, secondary nerves about 8 pairs, tertiary nerves reticulate; petioles
8 to 12 mm long, ferruginous-tomentose or scurfy. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, 4 to 10 cm long, peduncle and pedicels ferruginous-tomentose, with stellate hairs. Flowers white,

'Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 272.
* Op. cit., no. 866.