A NEW SPECIES OF GALIPEA (RUTACEAE) FROM

Tree or shrub 2-12 m; young shoots densely and minutely pubescent, early glabrescent. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate; petiole flattened or canaliculate adaxially, 3.3-20.5 cm long, glabrous; petiolules 0-1 (2) cm long, sometimes remaining minutely pubescent at maturity; leaflets entire, glabrous, chartaceous, terminal ones mostly narrow obovate but ranging from oblanceolate to narrow ovate, apically acuminate with an acute (or rarely blunt) tip, basally short-decurrent or -cuneate, 12.2-34 cm long, 4.3-16 cm wide, with 8-15 secondary veins per side, lateral ones mostly narrow ovate, sometimes elliptic to narrow obovate, apically acuminate, basally usually oblique but sometimes equal and cuneate, 10.5-28.2 cm long, 3.4-11 cm wide, with 5-11 secondary veins per side; venation raised on both surfaces. Inflorescence a narrow, apparently terminal panicle, densely and minutely pubescent throughout; peduncle 3.7-16 cm long, ridged; flowering rachis 8.2-49 cm long with sessile or subsessile cyrnose lateral branches subtended by lanceolate bracts, these 2.2-3.2 mm long, 0.7-0.8 mm wide, bracts at base of pedicels smaller but otherwise similar; pedicels 2-3 (5) mm in flower, 1.5-7 mm in fruit. Calyx cupulate, 2.3-2.6 mm long with 5 triangular lobes 0.5-0.7 mm long, densely and minutely pubescent without and apically short sericeous within, in fruit persistent, with lobes 1.8-2.5 mm long, 1.4-2.5 mm wide at base. Corolla 5-lobed, densely and minutely pubescent without, white; tube 14.5-19 mm long, 1.3-2 mm wide, with a retrorse shaggy pubescence within except for basal 2.5 mm; lobes imbricate in bud (1 with 2 outer margins, 1 with 2 inner margins, and 3 with 1 outer and 1 inner margin), oblanceolate, round at apex, densely and minutely pubescent within, 8.3-8.5 mm long, 2-2.7 mm wide, innermost slightly narrower than others. Fertile stamens 2, flanking the innermost corolla lobe,