Oct. 22, 1919] 



New Woody Plants from Mt. Maquiling 



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high, terete, crookedly branched and spreading toward 

 the top; wood odorless and tasteless, moderately soft, 

 reddish tinged toward the center; bark thick, castaneous 

 or dull yellowish brown, longitudinally checked; branches 

 many, glabrous, terete or a trifle flattened at the point 

 of branching, brownish in the dry state, smooth, Leaves 

 chartaceous, slightly lighter green beneath, opposite, also 

 glabrous, curing unequally dull brown, sublucid on the 

 upper side, 10 to 15 cm. long by 2.5 to 5.5 cm. wide, 

 the upper or terminal ones usually smaller, acuminate, 

 base obtuse, narrowly oblong to broadly lanceolate, entire, 

 upon 5 to 10 mm. long nearly black petioles, the midrib 

 ridged on the lower surface, with 8 to 12 obscure as- 

 cendingly curved lateral nerves on each side. Panicle 

 wholly glabrous and with green branches, erect, termi- 

 nal, up to 2 dm. long, about 15 cm. wide across the 

 base, profusely branched, the basal branches subtended 

 by small leaves, oppositely clustered from the main axis 

 which is compressed at the point of attachment, the 

 secondary branches likewise oppositely clustered; pedicels 

 subumbellately fascicled, slender, 3 to 5 mm. long, often 

 reddish tinged, globose, the opened flower atropurpureous: 

 outer 3 to 5 perianth segments or calyx imbricate, 3 

 mm. long or longer, rigid, united below the middle, 

 ovately oblong, broadly rounded at the apex; the 5 or 

 more inner ones somewhat longer, submembranous, elliptic, 

 nearly free, much overlapping, longitudinally veined from 

 a common base, the lines or veins dotted; stamens in- 

 definite, 4 mm. in length, densely clustered from the 

 upper outer portion of the 3 succulent phlanges; the free 

 fllaments unequal in length, fleshy, pointed at the ends; 

 anthers introrse, dorsifixed, oblong, truncately rounded 

 at both ends, a trifle wider across the top, 50 to 0.75 

 mm. long; staminodes 3, alternating with the fertile 

 groups; pistils large, bottle shaped, obscurely triangular, 

 with a short neck and with 3 short stigmatic lobes. 

 Capsule terete, 1 cm. long or less, glabrous, basal one 

 half enclosed by the calyx. 



Type specimen number 17724, -4. D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Bafios (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon. June- 

 July, 1917. Also number 15779, Elmer, Irosin (Mt. Bn 

 lusan), Province of Sorsogon, Luzon, April, 1916. In both 

 places it was found in very humid forested flats or de- 

 pressions at 2500 feet altitude. 



In size and habitat it is distinct from Cratoxylon ce- 

 lebicum Blm. whose stamen clusters are less than one 

 half as long and whose anthers are very much smaller 



