500 : LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. II, Art. 24 
erous seeds in each cell; seeds attached to the central placenta, 
brown, oblongish truncate, less than 1 mm. long. 
Type specimen 10189, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Prov- 
ince of Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 1908. 
Collected on a steep slope of a humid ravine near some 
minor cataracts of the Bonyao river at 1500 feet. 
Undoubtedly related to 1712 Cuming from Samar and 
which Dr. Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 4, 134 considers 
S. ferox Korth., but our leaves are much less pubescent and 
the calyx not at all bristly hairy nor scaly. 
THEACELJE. 
GORDONIA Ell. 
Gordonia welborni Elm. n. sp. 
Large tree, 30 to 50 m. high; trunk rather straight, 
1 m. thiek; wood hard, somewhat burly, the whitish sap- 
wood portion comparatively thin, the balance reddish, with 
a faint sweet sappy odor; bark thick, scaling in plates, grayish, 
conspicuously red beneath the epidermis; branches spreading, 
the ultimate ones quite short, crooked, rigid, and forming 
more or less bushes. Leaves deseendingly reeurved, stiff, dark 
green on the upper side, lighter beneath, smooth on both sides, 
obovate, very unequal in size, alternate, the larger ones 15 cm. 
long, about one half as wide above the middle, entire or obscurely 
crenate toward the apex, abruptly obtuse or acute at the apex, 
base slenderly cuneate; petiole stout, usually less than 5 mm. 
long, turning reddish, glabrous; midvein very prominent be- 
neath, reddish; the lateral ones obscure, ascending, coarsely anas- 
tomosing toward the ends, about 11 pairs; bud scale 2 cm. long, 
short yellowish gray pubescent on the outer side, involute, long 
acuminate. Flowers 1 to 3-clustered at the ends of the branch- 
lets or the lowermost one from leaf axils; pedicel not ex- 
ceeding 1 cm. long, about 4 mm. thick; flower buds globose; 
the 5 imbricate calyx segments spreading in anthesis, unequal 
in size, broadly rotund, short yellowish gray pubescent 
on the outer side, smooth and brown on the inner, green 
at the base and reddish toward the apex in the fresh state, 
the entire margin ultimately becoming crenately lobed or split, 
