Avausr 5, 1910] MYRSINACEAE FROM Mount Apo 669 
D ^ Represented by number 11260, Elmer, collected on a 
i wooded ridge of mount Burebid in one of mount Apo's spurs 
extending toward Santa Cruz. ''Mangauwat" is the Bagobo 
name. The type is based on number 1308 collected by 
Whitford along the Lamao river of mount Mariveles. Most 
of our material so far collected is from Luzon. 
Embelia coriacea Wall. Cat. 2314, 1829. 
A lofty climbing shrub, sprawling over the limbs of 
trees; stems and branches flexible, terete, brown, densely cov- 
ered with lighter brown colored lenticels; twigs slender, droop- 
ing. Leaves rigidly coriaceous, dark green above and shal- 
lowly conduplicate, only the tips recurved, much lighter 
green beneath, more or less descending. Inflorescence yellow- 
ish green, the minute odorless flowers deciduous. 
a > Represented by number 11305, Elmer, collected in a dense 
humid forested flat at 4000 feet altitude, on the trial from 
Todaya to mount Apo. This same species was observed to 
be very abundant at Baclayan, the camping place at 6500 
feet or only a few thousand feet below the summit of that 
mountain. The Bagobos call it '""Tagima". Mrs. Clemens col- 
lected several specimens of it in the Lake Lanao region. 
Otherwise not known from the Philippines. 
RAPANEA Aubl. 
Rapanea apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
A slender tree, 5 m. high, with an 8 to 12 em. thick 
stem; branches laxly spreading, numerous, the young por- 
tion of the relatively short twigs glandularly scurfy or 
pulverulent, provided with grayish lenticels; sapwood white, 
turning reddish toward the center, quite hard, odorless 
and tasteless; smooth bark brown, dotted with large 
yellowish  lenticels. Leaves alternate, scattered, oblongish 
lanceolate, averaging 8 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide across 
the middle, coriaceous, flat, with only recurved tips, 
deep shining green above, much paler beneath, apex 
obtuse to acute, base cuneate, glabrous, entire; midvein 
