714 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Arr. 41 
the top; main stalk stout, glabrous as are also the secondary 
ones, reddish; flowers erect, upon nearly 5 mm. long glabrous 
pedicels; the outer 3 perianth segments greenish, oblong, 3.5 
mm. long, 2 mm. wide, glabrous; the inner 8 whitish on 
the woolly inner side, yellowish white on the glabrous outer 
side, a trifle larger, obovately oblong, all united toward the 
base; fertile stamens 6; filaments compressed, 2 mm. long, 
bearded along the upper side; anthers 1 mm. long, oblong, 
truncate at both ends, introrse, 2-celled, laterally dehiscent, 
the lid hanging from the upper end; the inner series much 
shorter, sterile, usually attached to the lateral basal sides of 
the inner series of the fertile filaments; ovary glabrous, 1.5 
mm. long, elongate conical, bearing an equally long style; 
stigma finely puberulent; fruit ascending, upon 2 cm. long 
stalks, its pedicel much thickened and warty, globose except 
for the tip which is slightly pointed, lucid purplish brown 
or black, 2 cm. thick. 
Type specimen 11493, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Collected on a ridge in the great mount Apo forested 
basin at 6000 feet. ''Boga" is the Bagobo name. 
Its affinity is right next to I. confusa Blm. from Java 
and Sumatra but twigs always glabrous and never slender, the 
under side of leaves never puberulent or sericeous. 
LINDERA Thunb. 
Lindera apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
Slender tree, 10 to 15 m. high, with a 3 dm. thick 
stem; main branches only at the top, long and slender, 
divaricate or the shorter terminal ones oblique; its bran- 
chlets relatively short and thin, not rebranched, dark 
green or brownish, ascendingly curved, glabrous or olivaceous 
puberulent toward the tips, obscurely angled and roughened 
by the old leaf scars; wood doty and brownish white, 
odorless and tasteless, very soft; bark grayish, smoothish or A 
obscurely checked. Leaves evenly scattered all along the : 
= twigs, ascending, recurved toward the tip, coriaceous, sub- 
. lucid on the upper nearly flat surface, much paler green 
