NovEMnzR 15, 1911] ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF ELAEOCARPUS 1179 
soid or elongate in outline, smooth, hard and luteus, but soon 
after falling becoming soft and turn nearly ruber red; stone 
seed large and rugose. 
Type specimen 12761, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Collected in a densely forested humid flat at 500 feet alti- 
‘tude along the Iwahig river. 
Not E. multiflorus Turcz. by fruits; neither is it E. oblonga- 
tus Gaertn. 
Elaeocarpus fulvus Elm. n. sp. 
Lofty tree; stem 6 dm. thick, 20 m. high or higher, terete, not 
straight; main branches comparatively short, crookedly spread- 
ing, the twigs floecosely fulvus which soon wears off; wood 
soft, yellowish white, odorless and tasteless, easily chopping; 
bark smoothish, brown, gray on the larger branches. Leaves 
submembranous, deeply conduplicate on the upper dark green 
surface, recurved toward the obtuse apex, lighter green beneath, 
drying brown, alternatingly erowded toward the ends of the 
twigs, mostly ascending, oblong, entire toward the obtuse 
or acute base, otherwise with fine  serratures, glabrous 
when old, blades 1.25 dm. long by 4 em. wide across the 
middle, young leaves densely fulvous covered on both sides; 
midvein conspicuous and reddish brown beneath; lateral ones 
9 to 12 on a side, relatively conspicuous, divaricate or oblique, 
tips anastomosing, reticulations fine and quite evident from both 
sides; petiole fulvous felt covered, when old glabrate, 1 to 2 em. 
long, flattened along the upper side. Inflorescence sparse, axillary 
or more frequently from the twigs beneath the foliage; spikes 
less than 5 em. long, slender, in the early state densely clothed 
with soft short fulvous hairs; flowers pendulous, odorless, greenish, 
deciduous; pedicels very slender, 1 cm. long, slightly hairy 
toward the base; calyx rounded and united at the very base, 
glabrous on the inner side, on the outer side with crinkled fulvous 
hairs and with age becoming subglabrous, the midvein conspicuous 
especially on the inner side, oblong from the base, 5 mm. long, 
nearly 2 mm. wide below the middle, nerves apparent, obtuse 
at apex; petals free, deciduous, oblong in outline, 7 mm. long, 
3.5 mm. wide across the middle, yellowish white, strongly nerved, 
