Fesrvary 23, 1909] Synopsis OF FAGRAEA 601 
rigid, covered with gray bark. Leaves opposite, usually crowd- 
ed toward the ends of the twigs, very thick, easily crack- 
ing, flat, ascending, dark and sublucid above, somewhat 
glaucescent beneath, glabrous base cuneate, apex obtusely 
rounded, obovate, 1 to 2 dm. long, 5 cm wide above the 
middle, the callous margins minutely involute; midvein very 
prominent, the 5 to 7 lateral ones very faint; petiole 1 to 
3 em. long, thick, provided at the hase with thick square 
and bidentate plates. Bud inflorescence terminal, erect, 7 cm. 
long, about as wide across the top, ternatelv forked once 
or twice; stalks subcompressed, provided with brown irregu- 
larly shaped excrescences, subtended by a pair of thick rigid 
| em. long bracts; the middle bud subsessile, the 2 latera] 
ones stalked; calyx glabrous, 1.5 em. long, thick except the 
margins, very smooth on the inner surfaces; segments 5, 
rounded at the apex, two thirds the length of the calyx, 
the outer 3 enclosing the inner 2, becoming deciduous and 
leaving a thick shallow rim; corolla and stamens not seen; 
bud ovary elongated, 5 mm. in length, subglabrous; style one 
half as long, puberulous, terminated by a broad stigmatic 
disk; fruits 2 em. long, 1 em. thick, dull yellow when ma- 
ture, smooth and shiny, both ences sin iarly obtuse or sub- 
truncate, the 3 mm. wide corky base conspicuous and yellow- 
ish gray, the apex abruptly terminated into a dry very 
prominent yellowish gray blunt point nearly 5 mm. in length, - 
longitudinally divided by a membrane like septum; seeds 
very numerous, brown, oblong, minutely pitted, 1.5 mm. long 
by 1 mm. thick; dry berry somewhat fragrant but extremely 
bitter. 
Type specimen 9915, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
Only one or two trees were observed in the shallow wood- 
ed crater of the Cuernos mountains at 6000 feet, and has 
also been collected at the same elevation in the Malindang 
mountains of Mindanao. 
It is closely related to the EET species but the fruit is 
less tapering towards the apex and is set upon a corky base; and 
the calyx segments are entirely deciduous in the fruiting state. 
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