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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Arr. 38 
erect placenta; fruit 5 mm. in diameter, globose, pale or 
light yellow, sweet and juicy; seeds numerous, triquetrous, 
0.75 mm. across, bony, dark brown, finely rugose. 
Type specimen 10570, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Collected in dense woods of moist rich soil on mount 
Calelan at 4000 feet altitude. ‘‘Tabing’’ is the vernacular 
name given by the Bagobos. 
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EMBELIA Burm. 
Embelia philippinensis DC. Prod. VIII; 83, 1844. 
A woody climber and sprawling over thickets and light 
woods; stem terete, 3 to 5 cm. thick, gray, minutely checked, 
reddish brown beneath the skin; wood flexible, whitish, por- 
ous, odorless and tasteless; twigs slender and more or less 
drooping, dark green, covered with brown lenticels. Leaves 
thickly coriaceous, horizontal, tips slightly recurved, shallowly 
conduplicate on the darker green surface. Inflorescence as- 
cending or drooping, greenish except the yellow anthers; the 
5 petals also yellowish; stigmas brown; flowers odorless. 
Represented by number 11606, A. D. E. Elmer, collected 
in woods skirting grass lands at 3250 feet altitude. The Ba- 
gobos call it ''Balacoa". The type was based on number 
. 1001 collected by Cuming, probably in the province of Pan- 
gasinan, Luzon. Widely distributed in the Philippines. 
Embelia whitfordii Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. Suppl. 
I; 113, 1906. 
A looping lofty tree climber; stem flexible, 5 cm. thick, 
subterete; branches widely sprawling and forming a tangled 
mass, the free ends rather long and drooping; wood soft, 
reddish toward the center, odorless, with a distinct sweet 
taste; bark smooth, grayish brown, green and lenticelled on 
the branchlets. Leaves flat, coriaceous, paler green beneath. 
Inflorescence upon slender terminal shoots, odorless, creamy 
white, the small flowers yellow. 
