Aucvsr 5, 1910] MYRSINACEAE FROM Mount Apo 671 
j dish, odorless and tasteless; bark gray, roughened with coarse 
* lenticels; twigs glabrous, relatively short. Leaves minutely 
, punctate beneath, oblong, 6 cm. long, 2 cm. wide across 
the middle, coriaceous, flat, tips somewhat recurved, shin- 
ing dark green above, paler beneath, apex bluntly obtuse 
or acute, base cuneate, margins entire; midvein prominent 
beneath, the lateral ones very obscure; petiole 5 mm. long, 
glabrous. Inflorescence densely clustered toward the ends of 
the numerous branchlets, in small bracteate clusters, mostly aris- 
ing from the leaf axils; tubercles 5 mm. long, 2 mm. thick, 
densely covered with imbricate scales or bracts; bracts rath- 
er broad, glabrous and only obscurely ciliate; pedicels sev- 
eral from the same cluster, glabrous, 3 to 5 mm. long, 
greenish; calyx 5-segmented; the sepals united above the 
middle, 1.5 mm. long, nearly as wide, broadly ovate, apex 
| rounded, the free portion of the finely ciliated margin over- 
^ lapping, glabrous, quite rigid, bearing comparatively large 
reddish brown glands, corolla of an equal number of seg- 
ments, slightly united about the base; segments 2.5 mm. long, 
1 mm. wide aeross the middle, oblongish, roundly obtuse at 
| apex, margins finely and densely ciliate, thickly covered with 
| reddish brown glands, except at the base, ultimately reflexed; 
stamens 5, opposite the petals and included by them; filament 
i evident but very short, glabrous, upon and adnate to the basal 
portion of the segment; anther at least 1 mm. long. 0.5 mm. 
Y : wide, gradually tapering from the base to the blunt apex; 
ovary glabrous, conical, Í mm. thick at the base, terminated 
by a nearly sessile stigma; fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 11447, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Collected in black moist soil of dense woods bordering 
small grass glens at 6750 feet of mount Apo. In this local- 
ity it is abundant and ranges from the Baclayan camp up 
to 8000 feet altitude. The Bagobos call it ''Tongog". 
Related to, but apparently different from R. avenis Mez. 
Rapanea mindanaensis Elm. n. sp. 
Tree 8 m. high, with a 2 dm. thick stem; branches 
chiefly at the top, numerously rebranched; twigs ascending, 
