478 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, ART. 24 
entire or finely crenate, in the sinus of the crenatures be- 
neath provided with large yellowish glands; main nerves about 
9 pairs, divaricate, usually alternating with secondary ones, 
the ends only obscurely united or anastomosing, the reticula- 
tions quite evident from both sides; petiole 8 to 5 mm. long, . 
glabrous, easily becoming detached. Inflorescence corymbose, 
somewhat shorter than the leaves, suberect, heavy, terminal 
from the upper leaf axils, 1 to 2 or even 8 dm. wide; 
peduncle green, glabrous, usually spiny toward the base, punc- 
tate, stout, subcompressed; secondary peduncle 3 to 12 cm. 
long, spreading horizontally, occasionally subtended by a 
foliaceous bract; flowers erect, more or less clustered upon 
the thick and short pubescent ultimate peduncles, rigid; ped- 
icels nearly as thick as long; calyx simple, very short, glab- 
rous, the 5 thick and triangularly obtuse teeth persistent and 
more or less united about the base; buds obovoid, its 5 segments 
valvate; petals alternating, glabrous, caducous, somewhat united 
at the base, rather rigid, 8 mm. long, one half as wide across 
the middle, elliptic but with acute ends, tips incurved, nearly 
purple even in the bud state; stamens alternating, 5, inserted 
between the ovary and base of the corolla, finally exerted; 
filaments 3 to 4 mm. long, glabrous, whitish and pink 
toward the base, usually curved; anthers dorsifixed, broadly 
ellipsoid, lobed at the base, 1 mm. long, equally as wide 
ascross the base, yellow; pistil apparently rudimentary; ovary 
subglabrous, greenish, flattened, 1.5 mm. wide, superior; styles 
very short and with thick bases, yellowish, 8, bearing small 
brown stigmas, very similar to the stylopodium of certain 
Umbelliferae; fruit not known. 
Type specimen 10217, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 
1908. 
Of this very interesting Zanthorylum only a few large trees 
were observed in dense humid woods at 4250 feet. It is 
well known to the Visayan as ''Salay." The bark is used 
by them as medicine for different ailments of the stomach and 
intestines. When fresh the foliage and flowers have a very 
strong Araliaceous odor. This same odor was very strong 
when the dry flowers were being dissected. 
