486 LEAFLETS OF PRILIPPINE BOTANY (Von. II, Arr 24 
tended by a ciliate obovate 1 mm. long bract; calyx shallow 
© cup-shaped, 1 mm. deep, 2 mm. wide, entire, ciliate pubes- 
cent along the inner side of the rim; disk much flattened, 
pubescent on the upper side, the central portion occasionally 
protruded and nipple shaped; stamens 3, strictly divaricate 
glabrous; anthers basifixed, 0.5 mm. high, 0.75 mm. wide, con- 
Spicuously divergent, brown purplish, opening from the apex 
down the edge toward the oe npe and fruiting specimens 
not found. ; 
Type specimen 10312, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 
1908. 
Only a few shrubby trees were observed in an open rocky 
place of a grass ridge at 1000 feet. 
The round subentire calyx clearly place it with Sapium. 
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. CLAYOXYLON A. Juss. 
Clayoxylon arboreum Elm. n. sp. 
Erect tree, 5 m. high or higher, with a broad roundly 
spreading crown; branchlets not numerous, quite thick, watery, . 
 suppendulous. Leaves crowded at the ends, somewhat succulent, 
broadly oblanceolate, the average blades 3 dm. long, 13 cm. 
wide above the' middle, glabrous, shining green above, duller 
and lighter green beneath, apex acute, base attenuate, marg- 
ins crenately serrate, the callous apices usually next the 
sinus, frequently subentire especially toward the ‘base, the 
basal upper surface with a pair of large knob like glands; 
nerves oblique and nearly straight, conspicuous beneath, 7 
to 9 on each side, reticulations coarse, less prominent; petióle 
about 8 em. long; stout, puberulent, deciduous. Inflorescence 
axillary, upon l' to 2 spicate racemes, short yellowish gray 
pubescent; flowers deflexed, in small clusters, ‘irregularly ar- 
ranged along the entire length of the rachis; pedicels of the 
flowers 2 to 3 mm. long and similarly pubescent, of the cap- 
sules twice as long atid nearly glabrous; ovary ellipsoid, also 
pubescent; styles 1 mm. in length or somewhat less, di- 
varicately 3-parted; capsules 3-lobed, truncate at apex, cuneate 
at base, 3-celled, glabrous and smooth, septicidally dehiscent; 
