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Leartets OF PniLiPPINE BOTANY [Vor. Il, Arr. 29 
walls purplish spotted, style of the young fruits flattened and uni- 
ted at the base; stigmatic arms 3 mm. long, brown pulverulent 
along the inner sides; ripe drupes subglobose, juiey wine red, 
sour, mainly 1-seeded, about 5 mm. thick; seed ovoid, smooth, 
brown, 4 mm. long, on the ventral side subplano and at the 
apex bearing a whitish triangularly pointed cap. 
Type specimen 9801 for flower and 10156 for fruit, 4. D. E. 
Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos Mountains, Provinee of Negros Orien- 
tal, Negros, April and May respectively, 1908. 
Our species inhabits the woods from 3000 to 4000 feet, and 
the natives call it 'Calau." Its wood is extremely hard and 
heavy and it is said to be very durable. The ripe fruit is sour 
and is good to eat. 
A closely allied species to Gironniera glabra Merr., but leaves 
larger and less numerous, and apparently with larger pistiilate 
flowers. 
MYRISTICACEJE. 
GYMNACRANTHERA Warb. 
Gymnacranthera negrosensis Elm. n. 8p. 
A 10 m. high tree; stem 4.5 dm. thick; crown elonga- 
ted and bushy; wood odorless, whitish except for the yellow- 
ish red streaked vessels; bark reddish beneath the comparatively 
smooth and brown epidermis; branches lax and tangled; the 
twigs smooth, green, drying brown. Leaves coriaceous, dark 
shiny green above, much paler beneath, conduplicate on the up- 
per surface, exceedingly variable in size, lanceolate, alternate, 
the larger blades 15 cm. long by 5 em. wide across the middle, 
entire, scattered along the slender branchlets, gradually tapering 
to the rather blunt apex, base acute or obtuse; petiole 2 to 3 cm. 
long, glabrous, narrowly grooved along the upper side; main nerve 
prominent beneath, the lateral 9 to 13 pairs quite obscure, - 
reticulations evident. Flowers solitary or in small clusters, 
in the leaf axils, or arranged upon short leafless branchlets; 
pedicels thick, flattened, 3 mm. long, covered with a fuzzy 
_ yellowish brown pubescence, subtended by vestiges of bracts: - 
at the apex bearing a solitary or a pair of large thick sim- 
ilarly pubescent bracts; perianth yellow, 6 mm. long, the 
