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Leaflets of Phimppink Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. US 



others arising from above the middle, also much ascending, 

 their tips more or less interarching, cross bars also evident, 

 reticulations fine. Flowers not seen. Fruits upon 3 cm to 

 1.5 dm long stalks or spikes, from the leaf axils, usually 

 solitary though occasionally few clustered toward the distal 

 end, hard, shining green, elongated and pear shaped, 8 cm long 

 and nearly one half as thick toward the distal end, terete, 

 with a large similarly shaped yellowish seed; pedicels 1 cm 

 long or shorter, thick, expanded at the end, subterete, sub- 

 persistent. 



Type specimen number 13311, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 

 1912. 



Standing among dense woods on the gravelly banks of 

 the Catangan creek at 1000 feet altitude. "Hotot" is the 

 Manobo name. 



Persea surigaoensis Elm. n. sp. 



A slender and erect tree; stem 2.5 dm thick, 10 m 

 high, terete, mainly branched toward the top; wood odor- 

 less and without taste, soft, yellowish tinged except the 

 light yellow heartwood; bark smooth, yellowish or gray 

 toward the branches, latericius except the surface; branches 

 divaricate, rather long and crookedly rebranched towards 

 their ends; the twigs glabrous, roughened with lenticels, 

 subterete, ascendingly curved. Leaves alternate, chartaeeous, 

 ascending, glabrous, similarly brown on both sides when 

 dry, entire, the nether side much lighter green in the fresh 

 state, apex broadly rounded except the abruptly short acute 

 and recurved point, base cuneate, obovately elongated, 3 to 

 4 dm long by 14 cm wide above the middle, frequently 

 becoming much reduced; midrib very pronounced beneath, 

 plane above, yellowish but brown when dry; lateral nerves 

 very similar, composed of 11 to 13 pairs, ascending, nearly 

 straight, tips of the upper ones much curved and interar- 

 ching, the coarse cross bars relatively prominent, the sec- 

 ondary cross bars and intervening reticulations also evident; 

 petiole about 2 cm long and 5 mm thick, terete, upwardly 

 curved, glabrous. Panicle arising from the uppermost leaf 



