1182 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 65 
above the middle, entire or only occasionally with a minute ser- 
rature; midvein dark brown especially toward the base, with about 
5 lateral nerves on either side; nerves with glabrous glands in 
their axils, less prominent, oblique, their ascending tips coarsely 
anastomosing, reticulations very coarse and scarcely evident; 
petiole 7.5 mm. long, blackish brown, grooved along the upper 
side. Inflorescence immediately beneath the foliage in sub- 
whorls, profuse; spike slender, glabrous, 5 to 8 cm. long, usually 
curved; flowers pendulous, slightly fragrant, deciduous, chiefly 
toward the distal end of the rachises; pedicels very slender, 
glabrous, 2 cm. long, gracefully curved; sepals free, caducous, 
lucid white, dull yellowish when dry, 4, ovately oblong, 8 mm. 
long by nearly one half as wide near the base, apex very blunt, 
glabrous; petals similar in color and number, subpandurate toward 
the base, 6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide above the middle, the basal 
united portion and margins woolly pubescent especially along the 
prominent midvein in the concavity, otherwise glabrous, coarsely 
veiny, the broadly rounded apical portion terminated by 5 to 7 
roundish teeth; disk irregularly rugose, finely hairy; stamens 
erect, 20, yellowish brown; filaments 2.5 mm. long, glabrous 
except toward the finely or sparsely ciliate distal end, thickened 
toward the base; anther as long, fluted, 0.33 mm. thick, terminated 
by 2 unequal lips, dehiscing through the terminal slit, linear, sub- 
glabrous; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous, one third as long as the style 
which is 5 mm. long, slender and glabrous. Fruit bluntly ellip- 
soid, 1.5 em. long, 1 em. thick across the middle, coeruleus when 
ripe, very smooth and shining, its stony seed shallowly rugose. 
Type specimens 12104 for flower and 12427 for fruit, A. 
D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, 
Sibuyan, March and May respectively, 1910. 
This very characteristic species was commonly seen along 
the Pauala river from 750 to 1500 feet, being more numerous 
at the higher altitude. In no other Philippine species are the 
branches, leaves and spikes verticellately arranged and in no 
other species do the floral parts fall so early and so easily. 
“Karot” is the Visayan name. 
Elaeocarpus gigantifolius Elm. n. sp. 
Large tree; stem over 1 m. thick and 20 m. high, not strict- 
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