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A large shrub or small tree, sometimes 10-15 in tall and 10-20 cm 
in diameter brca^it high. Bark light-colored^ thin and finely fissured. 
Wood hard and heavy, pale-yellowish or whitish in color. Leaves small 
or large, coriaceous or chartaceous, greenish or yellowish -green in drying, 
very variable in size and shape, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, tapering to 
both ends or broader at the base; large specimens 11-lS cm long and 
4-7 cm wide. Eipe fruit reddish, sessile, \evy variable in size and shape. 
The ripe fruit is commonly eaten, after cooking. The leases are also 
cooked and eaten and the bark furnishes a strong hast fiber which is 
Uf^ed in Jiiaking cordage. 
A tree of rather scattered occurrence but wide distribution in the 
lowland forests and on low ridges. 
Lvzox, Province of Bataan, Merrill 2516, WiUiams JOo, 713, For. Bur. 118 
Barnes, For. Bur. 6I4, 637, 2.'t90 Borden, Whitford 1030, 1078, U53, For. Bur. 
2501 Meyer, Bur. Sci. 1601, 1602 Foxworthy : Province of La Laguna, For. Bur. 
10130 Curran: Province of Tayaba^, Bur. Sci. 13107 Fojcworthy cC Ramos. Mix- 
Dono, Jose 'Sahle 19, For. Bur. 6185 Merritt. Leyte, FAmer 7087, 73.^,8. Min- 
danao, Province of Surigao, Ahem 3.'f9, .',10 Quadras: District of Zaniboangi, 
For. Bur. 9155 Whitford & Hutchinson. Palawan, Merrill S.'iS. 
Native name: Ba</o. This same name is used for this plant in various parts 
of tlie Malay Archipelago. 
Said to be cultivated throughout the Nethcrhiiuls Indies and to have a large 
number of varieties. Africa; tropical Asia; Malay Peninsula; Java; Borneo; 
Celebes; Amboina; Moluccas; New Guinea; Pacific Islands; the Philippines. 
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2. Gnetum arboreum sp. nov. Plate XXXII. 
Arbor 7 m altus, 10 cm diametro. Fructus pedieellatus. 
A tree, 7 m tall and 10 cm in diameter. Leaves elliptic, acuminate 
at apex and cuneate at base, tapering into the slightly winged petiole 
which is canaliculate above, 5-9 em long and ^.5-4.5 cm wide. Second- ■ 
ary veins G-8, with connection of veins -ds in G. latifoliiim BL Fruit 
orange-red on short branch. In our material this branch is only 3.5 
cm long with four internodes. Only two fruits are left on the type 
and these aie each about 2.5 cm long and 17-18 mm in diameter, taper- 
ing at apex and base, small mucro at apex. Pedicels about 2 cm long. 
The appearance of this form is what one miglit except if a small- 
leaved form of G. fatifolium were to acquire tlie tree lial>it. Found at ' 
an elevation of more than 900 m, on Mt. Binuang in the former district 
of Infanta, Tayabas Province, Luzon. 
Type: Bur. Sci. Xo. D.',39, collected by C. B. Robinnon, Aug. 28, 1909. 
3. Gnetum latifolium Blunio in Xov. Fam. (1833) 30, et in Hoev. & De Vriese, 
Tijd. \At. Gescb. 1 (1834) 102; Rumpbia 4 (1848) 5, t. 11); Endl. Svn. Conif. 
(1847) 251; Presl Epim, Bnt. (1851) 23fi; Mi(|. FI. Ind. Bat. 2 (1859) 1067: 
Pari, in DC. Prodr. 1 6 ^ (18(!S) 350; Beceari, MuU-.ia 1(1877) 181; F.-ViiL 
Noviss. App. (1880) 210; Vidal, Sinopsis Atlan (1883) xlii, ^ .07, f. A; Pliun. 
Cum. Plnlip. (1SS5) IfiO; Kev. 1>1. Vase. Filip. (1886) 295; Ceron, Cat. V\. 
