696 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, ArT. 40 
late. Inflorescence terminal and leaf opposed or from the 
uppermost leaf axils, short recemose, suberect, in the bud 
state enclosed by striate glabrous brown imbricated bracts 
which soon fall off; central axis 1 or more cm. long, densely 
fulvous pubescent; pedicels 1 cm. long, similarly hairy, dull 
white, subtended by small bracteoles; flowers creamy white 
except the yellow anthers, slightly fragrant; calyx of 4 nearly 
equal segments; segments submembranous, deflexed, free, 
3.5 mm. long, lanceolately oblong, with a midvein and lateral 
reticulations, subglabrous or only sparsely pilose on the middle 
dorsal side; corolla segments 5, also free, similarly veiny, 
entirely glabrous, deflexed; keels 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, 
oblong, acute at apex; wings smaller, substipitate, similar 
in shape; banner shorter than the wings, oblanceolate or 
subspatulate; stamens 8, the upper one sterile and with a 
much shorter filament, free; filaments naked, unequal in length, 
the longer ones 9 mm. long, usually curved above the mid- 
dle; anthers versatile, ellipsoid, 1 mm. long; ovary densely 
fulvous; style subterete, nearly 5 mm. long, glabrous, termi- 
nated by a small capitate stigma; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 12234, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
A fine entirely spineless tree even so in the young state, 
inhabiting moist fertile wooded flats at 750 feet along the 
Patoo river. Dedicated to Dr. E. B. Copeland, Dean of the 
Sehool of Agriculture, Philippines University. 
Very distinct from G. rolfei Vid., the only heretofore 
known Philippine species. 
STRONGYLODON Vog. 
Strongylodon mindanaensis Elm. n. sp. 
Seandent upon lofty trees; stem terete, 3 to 5 cm. thick, 
flexible; branches scattered, the green slender twigs drooping; 
wood soft, porous, white, distinctly sweet; bark very thick, 
brown and smoothish on the outside, otherwise whitish, that 
on the branches yellowish gray mottled and more or less 
lenticelled. Leaves subchartaceous, similarly dull green on 
