The Philippine Journal of Science _ 1914 
ZIZYPHUS Tournefort 
ZIZYPHUS JUJUBA (Linn.) Lam. Encycl. 3 (1789) 319; Safford 403.. 
Rhamnus jujuba Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 194. 
G. E.. S. 165, locally known as manzanita. 
An introduced species in Guam; widely distributed in Tropical Asia and 
in Malaya, chiefly in cultivation. 
Mr. Skeels” has recently proposed to take up the name Zizyphus mau- 
ritiana Lam. for this species, claiming that Zizyphus jujuba Lam. is in- 
validated by Zizyphus jujuba Mill. (1768), a matter that I am unable to 
check on account of lack of literature. 
ELAEOCARPACEAE 
ELAEOCARPUS Linnaeus 
ELAEOCARPUS JOGA sp. nov. § Dicera. 
Arbor alta, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque exceptis 
glabra; foliis chartaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 
10 cm longis, apice obtusis, basi cuneatis, margine crenatis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 10, distinctis, subtus in axillis valde 
glandulosis; racemis axillaribus et in ramis defoliatis, 5 ad 8 
cm longis, circiter 15-floris; floribus 5-meris, 1.5 cm longis, pe- 
talis usque ad medio laciniatis, subglabris; ovario 5-loculare; 
fructibus ovoideis, 1.5 em longis, 1-locellatis. 
A tree, from 5 to 10 m in height fide McGregor, but accord- 
ing to Perez, after Safford, yielding logs up to 14 meters 
in length. Branches terete, grayish or reddish-gray, with pro- 
minent scattered petiolar-scars, nearly smooth, glabrous, the 
branchlets sparingly appressed-pubescent with pale, shining 
hairs. Leaves numerous, crowded on the branchlets, charta- 
ceous, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 6 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, 
the apex obtuse, base gradually narrowed, cuneate, margins 
crenate, when young both surfaces with scattered, appressed, 
shining hairs, becoming quite glabrous, the upper surface 
brownish-olivaceous when dry, shining, the lower a little paler; 
lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, 
distinct, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct, the axils of the 
veins on the lower surface with very prominent glands; petioles 
5 to 10 mm long, pubescent, becoming glabrous. Racemes nu- 
merous, axillary and on the branches below the leaves, 5 to 8 
cm long, about 15-flowered, rachis, pedicels and sepals sparingly 
appressed-pubescent with pale hairs. Flowers white, 5-merous, 
about 1.5 cm long, their pedicels 8 to 12 mm long. Sepals lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, about 11 mm long, 2.5 mm wide. Petals 
*U. S. Dept. Agr. Bureau Plant Industry Bull. 208 (1911) 67. 
