1176 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. IV, ArT. 65 
Elaeocarpus nervosus Elm. n. sp. 
A large tree; trunk 20 m. high, thicker than 1 m., 
terete; branches mainly at the top and spreading, the ulti- 
mate ones lenticelled, rather crooked yet slender; branches 
comparatively thick, yellow on the inner side; wood mod- 
erately soft, white with a slight yellow tinge, light, without 
odor or taste. Leaves chartaceous, deeply conduplicate on 
the upper dark green and ‘shining surface, duller and lighter 
green beneath, grayish brown when dry, alternating along the 
branchlets, quite variable in size, glabrous, elliptic or ovately 
elliptic, the larger blades 1 dm. long, 5.5 em. wide across the 
middle or immediately below it, entire toward the broadly rounded 
base which is obtuse in the smaller leaves, apex obtuse or acute, 
otherwise crenately serrate but very shallowly so; midvein prom- 
inently raised beneath, reddish brown in the dry state; lateral 
nerves very conspicuous from beneath, glabrous, similar in color, 
ascendingly curved, their ends coarsely anastomosing, 5 to 7 
on a side, reticulations very obscure; petiole reddish green, vary- 
ing from 1 em. long on the smaller leaves to 3 em. long for the 
larger ones, terete, glabrous, rather stout. Inflorescence mainly 
along the twigs below the foliage, profuse; spikes 0.5 to 1.5 dm. 
or occasionally 2.5 dm. long, angularly striate, puberulent, flexible, 
ultimately glabrous, divaricate; pedicel 1 em. long, rather stout, 
puberulent; calyx thick and rigid, 5, puberulent, ovately oblong, 
7 mm. long by 3 mm. wide below the middle, dull red; petals 
below the glands creamy white, 6 mm. long, 5 mm. wide above 
the middle, cuneate at the base, fan-like, the linear lacinae 
numerous and extending to below the middle, finely ciliate along 
the margins below the middle, numerously nerved, thick and 
rigid at the base, 5, caducous; the hypogynous rim boldly and 
roundly 5-lobed, glabrous; stamens yellowish gray, toward 30; 
filaments subglabrous, relatively slender, 1 mm. long, usually with 
a single or double bend; anther 2 mm. long, 0.5 mm. thick, also 
subglabrous, obseurely flattened and grooved on the sides, ter- 
minated by 2 short and blunt equal lips, dehiseing terminally; 
ovary flatly conical, subscabrous, terminated into a very short 
point or style. Fruit hard, ellipsoid, 2 em. long, 1.5 em. thick 
across the middle, pleasing deep red, the stone seed with shallow 
 convolutions. 
