730 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Arr. 42 
collected. Gathered in fertile soil of light woods et 1250 
feet. A widely distributed lowland species. ''Casungog" 
is the native or Bagobo name. 
Represented by number 11940, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, October, 1909. 
‘Solanum crassipetalum Wall. 
Field-note:—Erect, suffrutescent perennial; stem branched 
from near the base, 10 to 15 dm. high; the branches crook- 
edly rebranched and widely spreading; wood soft, whitish, 
with a green pith; bark greenish, covered with yellowish 
gray lenticels; leaves ascending or horizontal, flat, lucid 
dark green above, much paler beneath, thinly coriaceous, 
turning blackish while drying; pedicels and calyx green; 
petals white; anthers yellow, with brownish tips; style also 
whitish, bearing a green stigma; globose fruit less than 1.25 
cm. in diameter, turning to a dark shining red when mature. 
Collected in wet gravelly soil along the Cati creek at 6000 
feet on the northeast side of Apo. The Bagobos call it 
Bowi 
Represented by number 11576, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, August, 1909. 
sree tects 
Solanum apoense Elm. n. sp. 
Slender shrub or tree-like; stem 4 m. high, 5to 8 cm. 
thick, branched from above the middle; branchlets glabrous, A 
dark brown or nearly black in the dry state, finely ridged 
longitudinally. Leaves opposite, widely scattering, not num- 
erous, glabrous, submembranous, drying dull brown or blackish, 
the entire margins subinvolute in the dry state, oblong to 
elliptic lanceolate, acute to acuminate at apex, cuneate at 
base, the larger blades 17.5 cm. long, 6 em. wide across 
the middle; midvein prominent, darker in color; the 7 to 9 
lateral pairs ascending, curved toward their ends, reticula- 
tions coarse and rather faint; petiole 1 to 2 cm. long, gla- 
brous. Inflorescence cymose, axillary, also glabrous; peduncle 
1 cm. long, ascending, giving rise to few to several flowers 
toward the distal end; pedicels recurved, varying from 1 to- 
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