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Lka.5i.ets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



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

 ust, 1912. 



Gathered from the Catangan creek banks among jungles 

 overlying large bowlders at nearly 500 feet altitude. Dedica- 

 ted to Mr. C. V. Piper who in 1911 to 1912 spent several 

 month* in these islands investigating certain features of eco- 

 nomic botany. The Manobos call it "Hanopol." 



This is an exact match to Piper's number 450 collec- 

 ted at Mati, district of Davao, Mindanao. His and mine 

 are the only specimens thus far collected and they can easily 

 be recognized from the common Conocephalus violascens (Blco) 

 Merr. 



MYRISTICACEAE 



Gymnacranthera laxa Elm. n. Bp. 



Middle sized tree; bole 3 dm thick, branched above the 

 middle, 12 m high; wood soft, whitish and streaked with 

 red vessels, odorless and tasteless; bark yellowish gray mot- 

 tled, smooth, deep latericius except the epidermis, with a 

 molasses colored juice; main branches spreading, freely re- 

 branched; twigs lax, terete, more or less lenticelled, only 

 the young tips yellowish brown puberulent, ascendingly 

 curved. Leaves descending, subcoriaceous, shallowly curved 

 upon the upper very deep green and sublicid surface, drying 

 brown, glaucous green beneath even in the dry state, the 

 acute or the sharply pointed subacuminate point recurved, 

 base obtuse or on the largest ones obtusely rounded, the 

 entire margins well curved upon the under side when dry, 

 numerous, glabrous, alternate, 15 cm long by 4 cm wide 

 above the middle though frequently smaller, oblanceolately 

 oblong; midrib reddish brown beneath when dry and ridged, 

 when fresh yellowish green, shallowly grooved along the up- 

 per side; lateral nerves 9 to 11 pairs, much less conspic- 

 uous, ascending and curved especially toward their ends 

 which are usually united 3 mm below the edge, cross bars 

 obscure; petiole 1 cm long, curing blackish brown, glabrous, 

 flattened and grooved. Inflorescence lateral and usually below 

 the foliage, profuse, very lax and flexible, spreading all 



