672 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Anr. 38 
lax, glabrous; wood hard, without odor or taste, reddish t 
throughout; bark mostly brown, with gray blotches. Leaves 
flat, with recurved tips, glabrous, ascending, coriaceous, deep 
green above, much lighter so beneath and with minute dots, 
oblanceolate, alternatingly scattered and quite numerous, the 
minutely revolute margins entire, 5 to 7 cm. long, 1 to 
2 cm. wide above the middle, apex acute to acuminate, 
base gradually attenuate; midvein conspicuous beneath, the 
lateral veins obscure; petiole 1 cm. long, glabrous. Infru- 
tescence arising from very short densely bracteate tubercles 
chiefly in the axils of the fallen leaves along the branchlets 
below the foliage; pedicels divaricately spreading, straight, 
glabrous, 5 mm. long, several in the cluster; the subtending 
bracts glabrous, imbricate, short; calyx 4-segmented; the 
segments united below the middle, triangular to oblongish 
in outline, apex acute or obtuse, glabrous at least in the 4 
fruiting state, margin subentire or only with a very fine y 
fringe; fruit globosely flattened, 3 to 4 mm. in diameter, ; 
finely striate longitudinally when dry, apex apiculate, wash- 
blue when mature. 
Type specimen 11332, 4. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. Also number 
11820, Elmer. 
Collected in moist humus covered soil on a forested ridge 
at 4250 feet of mount Calelan. The latter number was gath- 
ered near the Mainit creek at the same altitude on the trail 
from Todaya to Baclayan, and is less typical. The one the 
Bagobos call '"Tongog" the other ‘‘Baliuc’’. 
Allied to R. philippinensis (DC.) Mez, but leaves not strictly 
oblong nor with rounded apices. Elmer’s number 12295 from 
Sibuyan island has typical leaves of de Candolle’s species. 
Rapanea venosus Elm. n. sp. 
A gnarly tree 6 m. high or higher, 2 dm. thick; main 
branches ascending, arising from below the middle, ultimately 
many branched, gray and more or less provided with yellowish 
brown lenticels; wood hard and brittle, odorless and taste- 
less, the sapwood whitish, reddish toward the center; bark 
brown, reddish beneath the epidermis, easily separating; twigs 
