2806 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



especially toward the ends of the nerves; petioles only a 

 few mm long, the terminal leaflet upon a 1 to 1.5 cm 

 long rachis extension. Inflorescence ascending, terminal, 

 paniculate, I to 2 cm long; all the stalks terete, green, 

 brown puberulent, the lower or longer branches repeatedly 

 rebranched from below the middle, the ultimate branchlets 

 subtended by minute bracts; flowers solitary or usually in 

 small terminal clusters, subtended by a bract-like rim which 

 is finely ciliate along the margins; pedicel 1 mm long, 

 relatively thick; sepals 4, cremeus, caducous, elliptically 

 oblong, 3 5 mm long by one half as wide across the mid- 

 dle, margins hyaline, densely sprinkled with purple or 

 reddish brown, the middle portion with a few large pellu- 

 cid glands, unequal in width but not in length, glabrous, 

 deeply concave on the ventral side, just inside of this whorl 

 of organs is a saucer shaped whorl of persistent organs 1.25 

 mm high and with 3 to 5 finely ciliate blunt teeth; sta- 

 mens 8, erect; filaments 2 mm long, fleshy, compressed, 

 purplish brown sprinkled, pointed at the apex only, ovate or 

 ovately oblong in shape; anther 1.5 mm long, truncately 

 oblong, emarginate at the apex, the basal one half divided, at- 

 tached in the sinus; ovary more or less rugose, 2 mm long, 

 short stipitate, obscurely 4 -angled and with some large 

 glands, terminated by a circular stigma. 



Type specimen number 10530, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. A.po), District of Divao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 



On a densely wooded ridge south of the Sibulan river 

 at 1500 feet altitude. "Dangolais" is the native or Bagobo 

 name. 



Evodia arborea Elm. n. sp. 



A middle sized tree; stem 6 dm thick, terete, more or 

 less crooked, 14 mm high, branched mainly at the top; 

 wood soft in texture, light in weight, both odorless and 

 tasteless, white except the dingy or yellowish or even 

 yellowish gray epidermis; main branches widely spreading, 

 freely rebranched and forming an umbrella shaped crown; 

 twigs ascendingly curved, glabrous at the young tips, gray- 

 ish green, compressed at the leaf insertions. Petioles also 



