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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Arr. 41 
5 mm. long, dark brown or nearly black in the dry state. 
Inflorescence ascending, also glabrous, similarly discoloring 
while drying, short branched above the middle, all the stalks 
turning to a shining deep red; flowers usually 2 to 3-clus- 
tered at the ends of the ultimaté branchlets, subrecurved, 
yellowish green; calyx also glabrous, stipitately tapering 
toward the base, about 5 mm. long; segments quite thick, 6, 
equal or occasionally one smaller on the outside, ovately 
rotund, nearly 2mm. long, finely puberulent along the mar- 
gins; the outer 6 fertile stamens opposite the segments and 
with introrse anthers; the inner series of 3 anther bearing 
stamens alternating with 3 spatulate staminodes, all of the 3 
inner series fertile; the anthers of the 8 fertile inner series 
extrorse but not as fully developed as the outer ones, their 
filaments bearing large rugose glands on each side; anthers 
2-celled, truncate; filaments flattened, very short, hairy, 
almost as wide as the inner 3 anthers; ovary ovoidly fusifcrm, 
2 mm. long, with a short style, glabrous; fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 11288, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Inhabiting a wooded bench bordering grassy glens and 
on the edge of a deep ravine at 2750 feet. The native Bagobo 
name is ''Magansirar". 
In general appearance Dehaasia triandra Merr., but flowers 
not at all as described in that species. 
CINNAMOMUM Bim. 
Cinnamomum mercadoi Vid. 
Field-note:— Tree 50 feet high, with a 2 feet thick bole; 
wood soft, white and with yellowish streaks, with a strong green 
cinnamon odor, light, tasteless; bark comparatively thick, 
gray, rigid; young twigs green; leaves chartaceous, darker 
green on the upper curvingly conduplicate side; inflorescence 
terminal and subterminal, ascending or erect, yellowish or 
pale green; flowers slightly odorous, of the same color as the 
stalks except the deeper yellow anthers. ‘‘Caningag” is 
the Bagobo name. As soon as the tree was cut a sweet 
aromatic odor was detected and soon afterwards the woods 
in that vicinity were filled with H 
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