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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



I Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



Type specimen number 13548, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 

 ust, 1912. 



This slender tree-like underehrub was found in a wet 

 and dense Dipterocarpaceae forested flat at 750 feet above 

 sea and near a wild hog wallowing place. The Manobos 

 call it "Magbabajag." 



Memecylon urdanetense Elm. n. sp. 



Only a small sized tree; stem 2.5 dm thick, 12 m 

 high, branched from below the middle, subterete, nearly 

 straight; wood odorless and without taste, hard, heavy, 

 tough, brownish; bark thin and very dark brown, scaling 

 in thin plates; branches slender, divaricate, freely rebranch- 

 ed; twigs glabrous, terete, dull reddish brown in the dry 

 state. Leaves horizontal or descending, flat, the acute to 

 subacuminate tips recurved, broadly obtuse at the base, 

 elliptic, entire, curing yellowish or greenish brown especially 

 upon the nether side, opposite, well scattered, rigidly cori- 

 aceous, much deeper green beneath, glabrous, the average 

 blades 12 cm long by one half as wide acrosB the middle; 

 midrib minutely grooved above, prominent beneath and 

 stramineus when dry; lateral nerves obscure, the basal pair 

 running 5 mm from the edge of the leaf and connecting 

 with the tips of the other lateral nerves, the balance of 10 

 to 14 pairs divaricate and straight, cross bars or reticula- 

 tions none; petiole 7 to 12 mm long, glabrous, stout, hol- 

 lowed along the upper side. Inflorescence lateral or from 

 the leaf axils, amending, 3 to 5 cm long, subumbel lately 

 branched from the middle; peduncle when young dark brown 

 furfuraceous, ultimately smooth and yellowish green, solitary 

 or 2 to 3-clustered, branches angular, similarly rebranched, 

 spreading, grooved and scurfy brown along its sides, sub- 

 tended by bract vestiges, relatively short; ultimate branchlets 

 crowded, very short and very thick, brown scurfy, subtend- 

 ed by short and acute bracts; pedicels glabrous, crowded, 

 1.5 mm long, at the base surrounded by a series of short 

 sharply pointed bracteoles; numerous flowers fragrant, umbel - 

 lately congested; calyx 3 mm deep, 3 mm wide across the 



