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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art - 115 



baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agasan, Mindanao, Sept- 

 ember, 1912. 



Discovered in rocky ground of the densely wooded Ca- 

 tangan creek at 3000 feet altitude. The Manobo name is 

 "Tagcan." 



The nether side of the leaves of Palaquium gigantifolium 

 Merr. is glabrous and whose apices are acute to obtuse not 

 broadly rounded as in ours. 



Payena fusicarpa Elm. n. sp. 



A small or middle sized tree; stem 2 to 3 dm thick, 

 7 to 10 m high, subterete, branched from above the middle, 

 quite hard, whitish, tasteless, with a faint pleasant woody 

 odor, reddish tinged toward the center; bark brown and 

 scaling in small plates, whitish on the inner side, with milky 

 sap; main branches ascending, spreading, repeatedly and 

 laxly rebranched; twigs also ascending or the outer and 

 lower ones descending, the angular leaf bearing portion dark 

 green and ascendingly curved. Leaves similarly disposed, 

 chartaceous, alternate, darker green above, glabrous, the 

 acute to acuminate apex recurved, occasionally obtuse at the 

 apex, base obtuse or obtusely rounded, drying brown or 

 blackish brown on the upper side, margins entire and when 

 dry a trifle involute, oblong or the smallest ones broadly 

 lanceolate to oblanceolate, the larger blades 2 dm long by 

 7 cm wide across the middle, the smaller ones less than 

 one half as large, the slenderer tips subfalcate; petiole 2 to 3 

 cm long, caniculate along the upper side, glabrous, some- 

 what thickened toward the base, leaving raised scars after 

 falling; midrib prominent beneath, shallowly grooved though 

 with a ridge along the center on the upper side of the leaf, 

 glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 12 to 16 pairs, 

 subdivaricate, ascendingly curved toward their ends and grad- 

 ually disappearing, cross bars and reticulations obscure. 

 Flowers odorless, in axillary clusters, upon 1.5 cm long 

 glabrate to minutely puberulent recurved pedicels which are 

 pale green and upon drying turning nearly black; calyx 

 deep campanulate, 7 to 8 mm long, 5 to 6 mm thick, com- 

 posed of 4 strongly imbricate segments or sepals; the 2 



