NovemsBer 15, 1911] ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF ELAEOCARPUS 1185 
scarcely thicker than the filaments, longitudinally grooved, 3 mm. 
long, subscabrous, terminated by 2 very unequal lips, straight, 
pollen disseminating through the terminal slit; pistil green, 
glabrous, the ovary ellipsoid, the terete style slender and 5 mm, 
long, stigma very minute. 
Type specimen 12974, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. 
Pulgar) Palawan, April, 1911. 
Discovered in shallow humus covered and well drained soil 
of a slightly wooded ridge at 1250 feet altitude. 
This species has close affinity to E. elmeri Aug. DC., but 
ourflowers are larger, their parts different in shape and piatil 
, entirely glabrous, not silky pubescent. Dedicated to Dr. Aug. 
de Candolle. . 
Elaeocarpus apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
A tall tree; stem 20 m. high, 4 dm. thick, straight; 
limbs rigid, crooked and gnarly, the ultimate ones rela- 
tively short; wood moderately hard, not brittle, yellowish 
white throughout, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, brown, 
that on the branches gray, the young twigs fulvous pu- 
berulent but soon becoming glabrate. Leaves chartaceous, 
alternate, mostly toward the end of the twigs, few, dark green 
above, much duller beneath, brown when dry, nearly flat, margins 
wavy, with widely scattering crenate serratures, apex abruptly 
acute or merely obtuse, base obtusely to broadly rounded, blades 
oblongish, the larger ones 15 em. long, 6 cm. wide across the 
middle, frequently much smaller, glabrous above, puberulous 
on the nether side especially when young; midvein pronounced, 
also puberulous; lateral nerves varying with the larger or smaller 
blades from 4 to 8 on each side, ascendingly curved, occasionally 
branched from or above the middle, reticulations very fine and 
equally evident from both sides; the longer petioles 3 em., be- 
coming glabrate, subcompressed. Spikes stout and rigid, subter- 
minal at the ends of the second year old twigs, divarieate, 5 em. 
long or less, densely clothed with soft fulvous hairs, more or less 
striate; buds ovoidly ellipsoid, pendant, fulvous brown tomentose, 
with 5 yellowish brown costae; flowers pendant, possess a sourish 
fruit odor; pedicels 1.5 em. long, thick, recurved, short and 
densely brown pubescent; sepals 5, caducous, very thick, the 
