NoveMBeER 15, 1911] ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF ELAROCARPUS 1183 
ly terete, buttressed at the base ; branches mainly toward 
the top, crookedly rebranched and widely spreading, the ulti- 
mate ones rather slender and more or less hanging; twigs sub- 
erect, green, angular, lenticelled, glabrous, 1 to 2 em. thick; 
wood light and soft, odorless, tasteless, yellowish or sil- 
very white; bark yellowish gray, smoothish. Leaves gla- 
brous, dull brown in the dry state, alternatingly scattered, 
lighter green beneath, sublucid above, shallowly conduplieate 
and slightly recurved, elliptie or ovately so, obtuse at the apex, 
broadly rounded at the base, subentire or with coarse crenate 
serratures, 3 dm. long, 2 dm. wide across the middle or imme- 
diately below this, occasionally much smaller or much larger; 
midvein yellowish green, very stout and prominent beneath, 
rather sharply edged; lateral nerves 9 to 13 pairs, subdivaricate, 
nearly parallel, less prominent, their tips usually forked and re- 
tieulately united, eross bars rather fine; petiole stout, 1 dm. long, 
5 mm. thick, also glabrous, triangular in shape, flattish grooved 
along the upper side, a trifle curved, 1.5 dm. long, yellowish 
pulverulent, irregularly striate from the leaf axils mostly ; pedicels 
relatively stout, 5 to 7.5 mm. long, glabrous; calyx squarely cup 
shaped, only a trifle united about the base, also glabrous, 6.5 mm. 
long by 3.5 mm. wide across the base, ovately oblong, quite thick, 
midvein more or less conspicuous on the upper side, 5, green; 
petals yellowish green, caducous, from below the disk, free, clawed 
toward the cinereous base, otherwise glabrous, widely and cu- 
neately spreading, 5 mm. long, only 1 or 2 mm. narrower above 
the middle, divided to the middle into 5 to 7 segments each of 
which further up are again dissected into 2 to 3 fimbriate lacinae 
which are of a deeper yellow or brownish; hypogenous rim very 
large, roundly lobulate, subglabrous; stamens 40, erect, densely 
crowded upon the disk, yellowish; ovary short ellipsoid, sub- 
glabrous or velvety; style 1.5 mm. long, glabrous, rigid, pointed; 
fruit purpureus, upon 1 to 3 dm. long spikes of the branchlets 
below the foliage, scattered, their pedicels 1.5 em. long, smooth, 
2.5 em. long, 1.25 em. thick across the middle, ellipsoid or ob- 
scurely obovate ellipsoid; meat nearly yellow; stone shallowly 
grooved or scalloped. 
Type specimen 11184, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
This magnificent large leafed species was discovered on a 
