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Leaflets op Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



lateral pairs of nerves from the middle, cross bars and re- 

 ticulations very faint. Flowers not found. Infrutescence 

 axillary but chiefly from the terminal leaves, 3 to 7 cm 

 long; stalks usually solitary, very sparingly rebranched, yel- 

 lowish green, more or less zigzag when un branched, minutely 

 yellowish gray stellate in the early state, ultimately glab- 

 rate; fruit pyriform, at least 3 cm long, nearly 2 cm thick 

 above the middle, smooth and hard, shining, flesh red when 

 fully ripe, alter natingly arranged or only solitary at the 

 base, similar in color and vestiture to the stalks which 

 bear them. 



Type specimen number 13996, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 

 ober, 1912. 



Discovered in wet sticky soil along wooded banks of 

 streams among the hemp fields at 500 feet above ocean 

 level. The Manobos call it "Carong." 



Leaves like those of Grewia stylocarpa Warb. but with 

 different fruits. 



ULMAGEAE 



Celtis mindanaensis Elm. n. sp. 



An erect tree; trunk 8 m high.. 1.5 dm thick, terete, 

 straight, branched above the middle; wood pale or dirty 

 yellowish white, hard, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, 

 mottled; branches crookedly rebranched, forming a rather 

 dense elongated crown; twigs rigid, also crooked, rather slen- 

 der, glabrous. Leaves alternatingly and widely scattering 

 along the branchlets, rigidly chartaceous, descending or 

 subrecurved, nearly flat or concave on the lighter green 

 lower surface, curing nearly equally brown on both sides, 

 entire, subelliptic to ovately oblong, gradually tapering to 

 the sharply acute to acuminate apex, base very broadly ob- 

 tuse or rounded and occasionally slightly inequilateral, the 

 normal ones 17 cm long, 7 cm wide across the middle or 

 just below it, glabrous, 3-veined from the base; veins prom- 

 inent beneath, slightly sunken on the upper surface, the 

 midrib with inconspicuous secondary nerves, the lateral 2 



