502 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Art. 24 
Flowers in small clusters upon the twigs and in the leaf axils; 
pedicels a few mm. long, nearly as thick, occasionally prov- 
ided with short bracts; calyx rigid, deeply concave, entire 
and becoming split, cupular, imbricate, 5 mm. long but the 
outer basal segments shorter, more or less united at the 
base, glabrous, reddish brown, with thin pale white margins; 
petals also 5, imbricate, falsely united toward the base, broad- 
ly obovate, 6 mm. long, glabrous, white; stamens about 12, 
arranged in one series, 4 mm. long; filaments 2.5 mm. long, 
subglabrous, fusiform, the basal one third falsely united, at- 
tached to the sinus; anther nearly 2 mm. long, ovate, bi- 
lobed at the base, dehiscing laterally; style very short. 
Type specimen 9544, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 
1908. 
A stocky tree, rather common in our locality at 5000 
feet. Also collected by E. D. Merrill on Mount Halcon. 
Somewhat similar to E. macartneyi Benth. of Hongkong, 
but sufficiently distinct. Readily distinguished from all other 
Philippine species by the auriculate leaf bases and large 
flowers. à 
GUTTIFERJE. 
GARCINIA Linn. 
Garcinia pinnatinervia Elm. n. sp. 
Small slender tree like shrub, 4 m. high; branches div- 
aricate, smooth, the younger ones greenish. Leaves opposite, 
thick, coriaceous, soon falling, leaving large irregular scars, 
flat, glabrous, minutely punctate beneath, oblong to subrotund, 
apex rounded and terminated by a short obtuse point, base 
acute, the normal blades 15 em. long, about 7 em. wide; 
petiole 1.5 em. long, easily separating at the base and prov- 
ided with a disk like adnate interaxillary appendage; lateral 
nerves faint but equally visible from both sides, oblique, parallel, 
at least 20 pairs, reticulations none, midnerve beneath very 
prominent. Fruits 8 to 12-celled, subsessile, subglobose, the 
ends more or less flattened, 3 cm. in diameter, chiefly along 
the branches, its fleshy rind yellowish green and shining, 
