"a 
728 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Anr. 41 
crooked and widely spreading toward the top; wood heavy, 
hard, burly, yellowish, bitter and with a sort of similar 
odor; bark brown, checked, reddish beneath the outer layer; 
twigs suberect, not numerous; leaves mostly at the ends 
of the branchlets, ascending, slightly recurved on the upper 
dark shining green surface, beneath subglaucescent, the veins 
yellowish green; inflorescence ascending, 6 inches to 2 feet 
long; main peduncles solitary or several, all branched chief- 
ly above the middle; peduncles, pedicels and calyx yellow- 
ish green; corolla none or composed of the inner 3 free 
perianth segments; stamens 9, with 6 glands, the outer 6 
stamens with introrse anthers, the middle series of light 
yellow glands which alternate with the outer series of 6 
stamens; all anthers 4-celled, the inner stamens with ex- 
trorse anthers; ovary whitish, style greenish, stigma brown. 
"'Boga" is the Bagobo name. 
Represented by number 10685, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Tue ESCOLTA PRESS, wc. 
