2824 



Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



Discovered in humid forests about lake Danao at 5000 

 feet altitude and in wet somewhat stony ground. "Bobonau" 

 is the Manobo name. 



Sideroxylon angustifolium Merr. but our leaves have few- 

 er nerves and the smaller fruits are upon longer pedicels. 



SAXIPRAGACEAE 



Dedea cinerea Elm. n. sp. 



Small and rather slender trees; stem subterete, 8 m high, 

 2 dm thick, terete or subterete, branched from above the 

 middle or toward the tip; wood odorless and tasteless, 

 moderately hard or soft, sappy white, becoming reddish 

 tinged upon exposure; bark thick, grayish white and len- 

 ticelled on the surface, light testaceus otherwise; main 

 branches erect, freely rebranched toward the top, compara- 

 tively short; twigs ascending and greenish, grayish white 

 pulverulent or glabrate along the apical portion. Leaves also 

 ascending, quite rigid and subchartaceous or subcoriaceous. 

 the entire edges subinvolute, shallowly folded upon the up- 

 per much deeper green surface, curing lighter brown beneath, 

 usually densely clustered toward the end of the branchlets, 

 alternate when scattering, otherwise subopposite or in sub- 

 whorls, minutely glandular punctate and grayish brown when 

 old beneath, oblong or obovately so, the average blades 8 

 cm long by 2.5 cm wide across the middle or a trifle above 

 this, obtusely rounded at the apex, base obtuse or subcu- 

 neate; midrib strict and ridged along the under side clear 

 into the apex, deeply caniculate and yellowish gray pulveru- 

 lent, dull brown when dry; lateral nerves 9 to 13 on each 

 side, divaricate, straight except the ascendingly curved tips, 

 obscure even beneath, reticulations and secondary nerves 

 very obscure; petiole yellowish gray pulverulent, averaging 

 1.5 cm long, grooved along the upper side. Spikes solitary 

 from the leaf axils, subterect, equalling the foliage, dark 

 reddish brown when dry, greenish when in the fresh state, 

 flower bearing from below the middle, the rachis proper 

 striate or angular; flowers alternatingly scattered and in 

 subwhorls, odorless; pedicel 2.5 mm long, strict, cinereous- 



