DECEMBER 14, 1908] THREE ScogE or New PraANTS 503 
its meat very acrid, the juice yellowish and sticky; seeds about 
8, solitary in each cell, hard, woody, reddish brown when dry, 
flattened, 1.5 em. long, one half as wide; flowers not seen. 
Type specimen 7190, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. 
Rare in damp woodlands. Has also been collected on 
Basilan island. 
CALOPHYLLUM Linn. 
Calophyllum hibbardii Elm. n. sp. 
Tree, 10 m. high; stem 5 dm. thick; wood red except 
the thin sap wood, odorless, easily cutting; bark brown 
to gray, reddish beneath the epidermis, bleeding with a yel- 
lowish gummy sap; main branches rigid, crooked; the ultim- 
ate ones comparatively short and forming dense bushes, green, 
easily breaking. Leaves opposite, flat, rigid, ascending, the 
younger ones yellowish green beneath, dull deep green above, 
oblong to elliptic, about 1 dm. long, 5 cm. wide across 
the middle, the entire margins provided with a brown cal- 
lous subinvolute edge, both ends similarly obtuse; - petiole 
glabrous, 1.25 cm. long, thick; midnerve very prominent 
beneath, dark brown in the dry state; lateral nerves obscure, 
very fine and numerous, equally visible from both sides; 
bud scale acuminate, 1 cm. long, cinnamon brown, covered 
with minute resin colored glands. Racemose inflorescence 
from the leaf axils or a few racemes clustered from the twigs, 
4 to 7 em. long, sparingly branched, ascending, light green, 
rigid, and quite fragile; pedicels 1 em. long, subcompressed 
or angular, glabrous, early becoming detached, divaricate; 
calyx imbricately overarching the buds, in anthesis spreading, 4, 
unequal in size, mostly broadly obovate, glabrous, deciduous, 
1 cm. long or less; petals none; stamens innumerable, dense- a 
ly bunched and forming the base of the ovary; filaments 
crinkled, glabrous, subequal, averaging 5 mm. in length; _ 
anthers light yellow, about 2 mm. long, 0.75 mm. wide, — 
subcompressed, oblong to subcuneate in outline, apex round-  — 
ly truncate and usually emarginate, dehiscing laterally; ovary - 
greenish, glabrous, globose, 3 mm. thick; style rather thick, 
also 3 mm. long; stigma prominently disk shaped. ae 
