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LEAFLETS OF PuiMPPINF BoTANY 



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stalks divaricately spreading from beneath the boot; the 

 infrutescence paniculately branched from near the base, 

 the more or less angular stalks -whitish, the base of the 

 short flattened peduncle thickened and clasping the stem; 

 buds similar in color, flowers slightly fragrant, the fila- 

 ments white, the anthers creamy yellow; pistils white as the 

 filaments; flowers coming into bloom from the apex to- 

 ward the base; fruits 1 inch long, ovoidly elongated or ellip- 

 soid, hard, glaucous green, subtended by a whitish calyx. 

 Palawan: Brooks Point (Addison Peak), Province 

 of Palawan, March 1917, number 12708. Collected in 

 sandy soil of woods fronting the beach several miles 

 to the south of the point. The southern Palawan na- 

 tives or Tagbanuas call it "Oring oring." More or less 

 in limestone soils, and in northern Palawan it thrives 

 on cliffs of the same formation. This remarkable species 

 was published from cultivated specimens of Manila only 

 a year before it was found in its wild state. In Ma- 

 nila it has been grown as an ornamental plant for many 

 years and is known as "Bunga de Chino.*' 



ACTINORHYTIS Wendl. et Drude 



Actinorhytis calapparia Wendl. et Drude in Linnae xxxix, 

 184, 1875. 



Field-note: — A 40 feet high tree; trunk strict, 8 in- 

 ches thick, grayish white or whitish mottled, quite smooth, 

 more plainly ringed toward the top; sheaths 3 to 5 feet 

 long, green, very tightly imbricate and almost stem like 

 in size; leaves forming a rather dense crown, 10 feet 

 long or longer, horizontal, the distal portion much re- 

 curved and even drooping, leaflet bearing within a foot 

 or two from the base; petiole and rachis flattened, cov- 

 ered with a hoary white bloom, the former much thickened 

 and quite abrupt at the base; inflorescence axillary, ascend- 

 ing, a yard long, paniculately branching; flowers creamy 

 white, smooth and powdery; fruits hard, yellowish and 

 finally red, smooth, 3 inches long, ovoidly ellipsoid. 



Mindanao: Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, 

 May 1909, number 11238. Isolated trees associated with 

 coco nuts and betle nuts in fertile ground of agricul- 

 tural lands at 1750 feet altitude. "Tangalo" in Bagobo. 



PTYCHORAPHIS Becc. 



Ptychoraphis Elmeri Becc. nom. nov. HeUrospathe El- 

 meri Becc. in Leafl. Philip. Bot. n, 646, 1909. 



