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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 65 
naensis by the same author are provided with a fuzzy fulvus or 
umber brown covering. The kernel of most species is rich in 
oil and very palatable. 
The yellowish white flowers of Elaeocarpus species are 
rather of a dainty sort, occasionally naked but usually clothed 
with’ silvery or fulvous hairs. Some have a distinet pendant 
habit. Most of them are odorless, yet a few possess a honey 
. fragrance. The persistent calyx frequently becomes reddish 
tinged when old. The ciliate to fimbriate or even laciniate petals 
prove a splendid character by which the genus can be recognized. 
The glabrous or silky pistil is surrounded at the base of the ovary 
by a series or ring of light yellow glands. When some of our 
floriferous tree species are in full flower they can be singled out 
of the forest mass at long distances. 
Elaeocarpus venosus C. B. Rob. 
A very characteristic species from the Mountain province (in- 
cluding Benguet and Lepanto), Luzon. Through an oversight 
it was omitted in Dr. Aug. de Candolle’s revision. 
Elaeocarpus foxworthyi Merr. 
A medium sized tree; stem 2.5 feet thick, 35 to 45 feet high, 
quite crooked, terete except the wadded base, its main branches 
widely spreading from the middle; branchlets rather slender and 
spreading, tips suberect; wood moderately hard and burly, odor- 
less, nearly tasteless, quite heavy, the sapwood white, otherwise 
deeply tinged with red; bark thick, reddish brown except the 
mottled smooth epidermis; leaves horizontal, parchment-like, the 
sides usually curved upon the paler lower surface, the Mein and 
the lateral nerves beneath testaceus brown as is also the petiole 
Spikes divaricate, chiefly along the branchlets, 1 to 1.5 doi: 
long, densely rufous tomentose; pedicels stout, nearly 1 em. fon. 
densely ferruginous pubescent; calyx rigid, stellately spreading. 
the basal portion united; segments latericius hairy on the falta. 
t mm. long, 3 mm. wide toward the base, glabrous on the ir 
side and with a quite prominent midvein, yellowish green, ovatel 
oblong, 5; petals free, of the same number, quite rigid n Sead 
ing out, glabrous on both sides, flat, sulphureous, strongly nerved 
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