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LEAPLET8 OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 116 



expanded filament with a pair of projections from the base, 

 the connective extended into a rigid point. 



Type specimen number 11929, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (iMt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, October, 1909. 



Collected in moist rich soil of a densely forested shel- 

 tered place at about 3000 feet altitude along the trail from 

 Datu Tongcaling's settlement to mount Calelan. Named af- 

 ter the Bagobo chief who called this stately tree "Magasorod." 



SAPOTACEAE 



Mimusops latericia Elm. n. sp. 



An upright tree of middle size; stem terete though 

 crooked, 2 to 3 dm thick, 12 m high, branched above the 

 middle; wood very hard, burly, heavy, odorless and also 

 without taste, the outer one third whitish, gradually chang- 

 ing to the incarnatus central mass; bark fumosus, deeply 

 checked, testaceus except the epidermis and the inner whitish 

 surface which exudes milky sap; main branches ascending, 

 ultimately numerously rebranched; twigs terete, lax, suberect 

 or ascendingly curved, their apical portion latericius lanose. 

 Leaves descending, rigidly coriaceous, shining upon the up- 

 per deeper green and strongly folded side, duller beneath 

 even in the dry state, curing dull or deep brown on both 

 sides, chiefly toward the ends of the branchlets, alternate 

 or in the early state subopposite, entire, oblong when old 

 but the young leaves covered beneath with a deciduous 

 latericius colored tomentum, much recurved toward the acute 

 to subacuminate apex, base obtuse or obtusely rounded, var- 

 iable in size, the larger blades 9 cm long by one third as 

 wide across the middle; midrib prominent beneath, entirely 

 glabrous when old, latericius pubescent beneath in the early 

 state; lateral nerves oblique, faint, numerous, freely reticulat- 

 ed above the middle; petiole 1 to 1.5 cm long, nearly 

 plane along the upper side, in the early state covered with 

 latericius hairs, finally glabrous. Flowers divaricate, subpen- 

 dant, usually solitary from the leaf axils; pedicels at first 

 densely latericius tomentose, 1 cm long or longer, gradually 

 tapering and becoming thicker toward the distal ends; bud 



