NovEMBER 15, 1911] ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF ELAEOCARPUS 1181 
from the leaf axils; flowers scattered, sparse, pendulous or nearly 
80, creamy yellow; pedicels yellowish green, recurved, rather 
stout, densely pubescent; calyx deep yellow, 10 mm. long, 3.5 
mm. wide toward the base, thiek, short, hairy on both sides, 
free, the basal portion eup shaped, the upper portion free and 
erect, broadly lanceolate, the inner side with a midvein; petals in- 
serted below the disk, paler yellow, 5or as many as there are sepals, 
10 mm. long, nearly 5 mm. wide across the middle, quite thick 
toward the base, subpandurate, free, deciduous, densely hairy 
on both sides, provided on the ventral side with a thick midvein, 
oblongish in outline, the upper lateral and apical portion regularly 
divided into many linear glabrous segments 2 mm. in length, 
the margins in the dry state strongly rolled upon the upper side; 
ovary disk rugose, hairy, yellow; stamens 15, inserted upon the 
ovary disk; filaments subterete, finely hairy or scabrous, 2 mm. 
long, a trifle constricted at the distal end; anthers 3 mm. long, 
linear, finely scabrous, obscurely 4-angled, split at the apex into 
2 unequal lips, 0.5 mm. thick, dehiscing apically; ovary short 
ovoid, hairy, whitish; style of the same color, terete, fleshy, grad- 
ually tapering toward the minute greenish stigma, 7.5 mm. long. 
Type specimen 11837, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Only one tree of this elegant species was found on the wood- 
ed or forested ridge at 4000 feet of mount Burebid. 
Elaeocarpus verticellatus Elm. n. sp. 
A medium sized tree; stem 10 m. high, 4.5 dm. thick, its 
main branches from the middle or above it; wood whitish, 
moderately soft, odorless, with a slight bitter taste; bark 
brown, smoothish; limbs widely spreading, freely rebranched; 
twigs lax, terete, ascendingly curved, usually arranged in 
subwhorls (the central terminal one short, the lateral one 
or two longer), terete, smooth and glabrous. Leaves termi- 
nally erowded and appearing as in subwhorls, subchartaceous, 
glabrous, ascending or horizontally spreading, shallowly folded 
upon the dull green upper side, the blunt acute apex usually 
recurved, a trifle paler beneath, deciduous, obovate to broadly 
oblanceolate, 1 dm. long including the petiole, slenderly cuneate 
toward the base, greenish brown in the dry state, 3 em. wide 
