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and equally visible from both sides; petiole' subterete, as- 

 cending, glabrous, yellowish green in the fresh state, some- 

 what swollen at the basal point of the blade, from 5 to 

 10 cm long. Infrutescence erect or at least ascending, 7 

 to 13 cm long, strict; stalks rigid, glabrous, thick, yel- 

 lowish gray, usually solitary from the leaf axils; fruit 

 upon stout 5 mm long pedicels or subsessile, hard, smooth, 

 similar in color, 2 cm across, normally somewhat compres- 

 sed, 2-seeded. 



Type specimen number 10994, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

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



Discovered in dry fertile soil along the wooded edge 

 of the Baracatan creek at 1500 feet altitude or at the up- 

 per limit of the cogon field. The Bagobo name is "Maga- 

 mabut. " 



Vitex premnoides Elm. n. sp. 



Quite a large tree; trunk 17 m high, mostly branched 

 toward the top; wood soft, yellowish especially toward the 

 center, odorless and tasteless; bark thick, smoothish, brown, 

 yellow beneath the epidermis; main branches spreading 

 but not very long, quite often rebranched; twigs horizon- 

 tally spreading, green and puberulent on the young tips, 

 the ultimate ones ascendingly curved. Leaves along the 

 twigs only, opposite, deeply folded upon the upper deep 

 green and lucid surface which in the dry leaves is ater, ex- 

 ceedingly variable in size, apex abruptly acute and strongly 

 recurved, base obtusely rounded, oblong or subelliptic, the 

 larger blades 7.5 cm long by 3.5 cm wide, edges entire, 

 much lighter green beneath when fresh and dull grayish 

 brown when dry, glabrous above, nearly so beneath; petiole 

 1 cm long, finely canescent when young, glabrate when 

 old, caniculate, usually with interaxillary buds, leaving 

 large gray scars after falling; midrib prominent beneath, 

 sunken above, in the young state appressed puberulent; lat- 

 eral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, ascending and curved, relatively 

 conspicuous beneath, cross bars very faint, reticulations ex- 

 ceedingly minute. Paniculate inflorescence terminal, erect or 

 suberect, 5 to 8 cm long and fully as wide, branched from 



