A new Canarium (Burseraceae) from Batjan I., Moluccas, Indonesia

Descriptio typi: Arbor 35 m alta, 35 cm diam. Ramuli 2 cm diam., glabri; medulla fasciculis vasorum multis pro parte peripheralibus suffulta; gemma terminalis + 1 cm longa. Folia 7-jugata. Slipulae in hasi petioli insertae, subulatae, 4 — 5 mm longae, costatae, ± persistentes. Petiolus 20 cm longus, ca. 5 mm diam., medulla ca. 20-25 fasciculis vasorum suffulta; petioluli laterales 1 — 1,5 cm longi, petiolulus terminalis 3 cm longus. Foliola ca. 20 cm longa, 6 — 8 cm lata, elliptica vel ovata, pergamentacea, glabra; basis subobliqua, rotundata vel subcordata; margo integer; apex abrupte acuminatus, acumine 0,5 – 1,5 cm longo, angusto, rotundato; costa supra prominula; nervi laterales inter se ca. 1,5 cm distantes, subpatentes, praeter marginem abrupte curvati, supra prominuli subtus prominentes; venae venulaeque minute reticulatae, utrinque prominulae. Infructescentiae axillares laxe thrysoideae, ad 16 cm longae, subglabrae; bracteae deltoideae; calyx applanatus 1 cm diam., extus subglaber, intus sericeus. Fructus late fusiformes, sectione transversa subtrigonales, 3 cm longi 1.5 cm diam., glabri; valvae pyrenae ca. 4 mm crassae; loculi 2 steriles, loculus fertilis 2 mm altus, 8 mm latus. Typus : E.F.de Voge!3646, Indonesia, Moluccas, P. Batjan, B. Sibela near Waiaua, 0 45’S, 127°32’ E, alt. 910 m, 25-10-1974, fr. (L).