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LEAKLET3 OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 11 



ward the obtusely cuneate base, otherwise obscurely and 

 crenately serrate, apex broadly rounded and occasionally 

 emarginate, at least 5 cm long, one half as wide across the 

 middle or a trifle above it, midrib black, glabrous, prom- 

 inently raised beneath, well sunken along the upper side; 

 nerves divaricate, about 7 to 9 pairs, relatively faint be- 

 neath, their tips reticulately united, frequently with second- 

 ary ones intermixed, reticulations few and obscure; petiole 

 5 mm long, glabrous at least when old, nearly black in the 

 dry state, shallowly grooved above; bud bract minute, pu- 

 erulent. Flowers pendulous, upon recurved green and rigid 

 1 to 1.5 cm long pedicels, odorless; calyx erect, thick, glab- 

 rous, imbricate, nearly free and I cm long, the 5 lobes 

 short ovate, margins thin, the inner surface smooth and 

 blistery, roughened on the outer exposed sides; petals of the 

 same number, 1.5 cm long, imbricate and the basal por- 

 tion united, 7.5 mm wide, truncately oblong, appearing 

 glandular on the smooth inner surface, olivaceus on the 

 middle upper or exposed portion, glabrous otherwise, ir- 

 regularly rounded at the apex, veiny; stamens numerous, 

 very unequal in length, inserted upon the petals 2 mm 

 from the base; filaments 6 mm long or the inner ones less 

 in length, ciliate pubescent; anthers 3.5 mm long, lanceolate, 

 a trifle compressed, the connective densely hairy along the 

 back and only sparsely so on the inner side; ovary glabrous, 

 one half imbedded; style 1.5 cm long, glabrous, thick, te. 

 rete, terminated into a small apical stigma. 



Type specimen number 11265, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 



Discovered in rich moist humus covered soil of dense 

 forests at 3750 feet altitude along the Burebid range. It is 

 not surprising that the Bagobos call it "Malagsam" a name 

 applied to a number of species of Euqenia. 



Adinandra merrillii Elm. n. sp. 



Rather large trees; trunk 1 m thick, 18 m high, branch- 

 ed from the middle or above it, terete except toward the 

 base; wood moderately soft, white or whitish, quite without 

 odor or any taste; bark gray and smoothish, otherwise brown 



