March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2780 



average twice as large on our material and whose petioles 

 are proportionately longer. I do not know if Erythropalum 

 scandens Blm. occurs in our archipelago but our specimens 

 are certainly not of the common smaller leafed plant. 



Platea apoensis Elm.- n. sp. 



Large tree; trunk 1 m thick, 15 or more m high; wood 

 odorless and tasteless, white, soft throughout, very light and 

 splendid for cutting purposes; bark mottled, smoothish; bran- 

 dies widely spreading, the ultimate ones rather numerous 

 and their young tips testaceus scurfy. Leaves quite numer- 

 ous, alternate, chartaceous, dark olive green on the upper 

 glabrous and minutely honeycombed surface which in the 

 dry st-ite is murinus, beneath minutely scurfy and avellaneus 

 or ashy gray when dry, the larger blades 1 ctn long by 

 one half as wide across the middle, base broadly obtuse or 

 rounded, apex bluntly obtuse, the entire margins curved up- 

 on the under side, elliptically oblong; midvein stoutly raised 

 beneath, deeply sunken above, also scale covered in the early 

 state beneath; lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, oblique, tips 

 gradually becoming obsolete, otherwise similar, reticulations 

 none or very obscure; petiole deeply channeled along the 

 upper side, 1.5 cm long, the brown scales wearing off with 

 age. Peduncles usually solitary, 2 to 3 cm long, suberect, 

 covered with testaceusly covered scales, axillary; fruits 2.5 

 cm long, ovoidly ellipsoid, reddish, few, alternatingly scat- 

 tered; fruiting calyx 5 to 8 mm long, stipitate except the 

 short rounded lobes. 



Type specimen number 11412, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909; 

 also numbers 10875 and 10582 from this same locality. 



Here and there scattered in dense humid forests at 4000 

 to 6000 ;feet altitude. This also the natives or Bagobos call 

 ,4 Calisan. M 



The type number of this species is somewhat different 

 than the other numbers cited. 



