1174 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 65 
when old, 9 mm. long, 6 mm. thick below the middle, deep aerugin- 
eus when mature, its stone-like seed finely rugose; pedicel strict, 
nearly as long as the fruit. 
Type specimen 9653, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete (Cuernos 
Mts.), Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 1908. 
Discovered along the trail on a mossy ridge at 5000. feet 
and formed one of the many kinds of low stocky trees or 
interlaced shrubs: 
Distributed under E. mastersit King. As to our Philippine 
Elaeocarpusitis nearest to E. merritti Merr. but leaves more 
elliptic, not ovately so, acute to obtuse at base, not rounded; 
petioles not so slender nor infrutescence as long and with ap- 
parent smaller fruits. The prominent axillary glands on Mer- 
rills specimen are minute or nearly obsolete in ours. 
Elaeocarpus fusicarpus Elm. n. sp. 
Small erect tree, 10 m. high, with a 1.5 dm. thick stem; 
branches lax and numerous, terete, widely spreading, the young 
twig portion isabellinus pubescent but very soon glabrous; bark 
grayish mottled, lenticelled, thin, the inner surface yellowish 
green; wood delicately white, soft, light, odorless and tasteless. $ 
Leaves ovately oblong, ample, alternatingly scattered along the 
branchlets, membranous, conduplicately recurved, lucid and 
deeper green on the upper side, duller beneath, the two sides. 
very unequal brown when dry, glabrous above, finely pubescent 
beneath especially along the nerves, obscurely crenately serrate, 
the larger blades 9 cm. long by 4 cm. wide across the middle or 
below it, frequently much smaller, gradually tapering to the acute 
to acuminate apex, base broadly rounded; petiole scarcely exceed- 
ing 5 mm., finely cinereous, flattened along the upper side; midvein 
pronounced, hairy, lateral pairs 4 to 6, ascendingly curved, tips anas- 
tomosing, also pubescent, the hairy axillary glands nearly obsolete, 
reticulations obscure. Floral spikes suberect, chiefly from the 
upper leaf axils, slen er, softly covered with isabellinus hairs, 5 to 8 
cm. long; flowers alternatingly scattered above the middle mainly, 
slightly odorous, pendulous; bracts subtending the pedicels linear 
to oblongish, 5 mm. long, softly pubescent, subdeciduous; pedicels 
5 to 7 mm. long, soft pubescent, subrecurved, yellowish green 
"flowers slightly odorous, pendulous; calyx creamy white, the 5. 
