NovemBer 15, 1911] ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF ÉLAEOCARPUS 1177 
Type specimens 11566 for flower and 10802 for fruit, A. 
D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, 
May and August respectively, 1909. 
The flowering type was discovered in the dense mossy for- 
ested basin at 5250 feet along the Mararag creek of Apo; the 
fruiting specimens were gathered on a forested ridge at 500 feet 
lower altitude of mount Calelan. The former was called “Onas,” 
the latter “Caleso” by the natives or Bagobos. 
E. cumingii Turcz. is its nearest ally, but the leaves have 
a different cut and nerves much more pronounced than in Cuming 
807. 
Elaeocarpus gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
A middle sized tree; stem 13 m. high. 4.5 dm. thick, its main 
branches arising from below the middle; wood burly and whit- 
ish at least on the outside, odorless, tasteless; bark thick, yel- 
lowish on the inner side, grayish and smooth on the epidermis; 
branches numerous, lax, widely spreading, the glabrous and 
ultimate ones‘ suberect. Leaves alternate, glabrous, submembran- 
ous, recurved especially toward the acuminate apex, somewhat 
folded upon the upper darker green suface, copious, drying dull 
brown, margins wavy and finely dull serrate especially above : 
the middle, lanceolate to oblongish, base acute to obtuse, the 
larger blades nearly 7.5 em. long by fully 2 em. wide across the 
middle; petiole very slender, glabrate, 1.5 to 2 em. long; midvein 
conspicuous, with fine grayish hairs along its sides in the early 
state; lateral nerves 5 to 7 on a side, much ascending, only slightly 
curved, not conspicuous nor retieulations evident. Inflorescence 
spicate, ascendingly spreading, mostly from the uppermost leaf 
axils, the stalks green and covered with a cinereous pubescence, 
ultimately nearly glabrous, 5 to 8 em. long; flowers odorous, 
pendulous, creamy white; pedicels cinereous subrecurved, ul- 
timately glabrous, slender, 6 mm. long; calyx united at the cup 
shaped base, otherwise erect, also minutely cinereous, segments 
5, lanceolately oblong, 5 mm. long by 1.5 mm. wide across the 
base, whitish margins, puberulent; creamy white petals free, 
caducous, fully as long as the sepals, oblongish in outline, light 
creamy yellow, cinereous below the middle on the back, bright or 
silvery white hairy, eanescent on the middle region of the inner 
side, the apical one half divided into 5 to 7 glabrous laciniate 
