LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
V o. IV. Manila, P. I., November 15, 1911. Art. 65. 
ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF ELAEOCARPUS 
By 
A. D. E. Elmer 
In article thirty five of this publication, Dr. Aug. de Can- 
dolle listed sixteen species and a few doubtful ones in his revision 
of our then known Philippine Zlaeocarpus. Since that time 
new collections from the southern Philippines brought together 
many new additional ones, so that at the present time we know 
toward forty species in our archipelago. 
The largest increase came in the collection made in the vici- 
nity of mount Apo. In that great forested basin of the king of 
Philippine mountains, are extraordinary large trees with trunks 
five feet in diameter and reach a height of seventy five feet to the 
first limbs. The wood of most of our big tree species at middle 
elevations is moderately soft and light, very easily worked. The 
eolor is white with a slight tinge of yellow. Some of our low 
Stocky trees in alpine regions have harder and whiter woods, 
while that of E. forworthyi Merr. is fairly heavy, burly and reddish. 
Theripe fruits are characteristie, the Elaeocarpus nut is-always 
known by the corrugated stone seed. Most fruits of our Philippine 
Species are covered by a smooth and shining coeruleus or aeru- 
gineously colored skin. E. nervosus Elm. and E. gigantifolius 
Elm. have smooth ruber red to purple fruits. That of E. versicolor 
Elm. is citrinus, although after lying on the ground and while 
the skin becomes soft, the color changes to incarnatus. The recep- 
tacles of many of our fig species undergo similar changes in color 
and texture. The fruits of E. foxworthyi Merr. and E. minda- 
