NOVEMBER 15, 1911] ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF ELAROCARPUS 1187 
young ones canescent but soon becoming glabrous, base acute 
to subeuneate and entire, otherwise the margins are finely set 
with erenate serratures, elliptie or elliptie oblongish, the smaller 
ones lanceolate, the average blades 3 em. long by 1.5 em. wide 
across the middle; midvein quite conspicuous, reddish brown; 
lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, yellowish brown, much less conspicuous, 
ascendingly curved, tips reticulately united, with minute axillary 
glands, reticulations exceedingly fine and evident from both sides; 
petiole less than 1 em. long, slender, glabrous, grooved along the 
upper side. Inflorescent spike arising from the terminal or sub- 
terminal leaf axils, sparse, 3 to 5 em. long, slender, usually curved, 
dull silvery white pubescent; flowers pendulous, creamy white, 
odorless; pedicels very slender, 5 mm. long, densely grayish white 
pubescent; calyx nearly free or only slightly united about the base, 
canescent on the back, subglabrous on the central side and with 
a midrib, quite thick, laneeolately oblong, 4.5 mm. long, nearly 
2 mm. wide below the middle, only 4; petals also only 4, a trifle 
longer than the sepals with whieh they alternate, puberulent 
especially along the margins, 3 mm. wide above the, middle, 
cuneate toward the base, the apical one third dissected into 5 to 8 
linear segments, from below the disk, veiny; hypogenous disk 
very pronounced, densely canescent, rugose, yellowish; anthers 
erect from the upper side of the rim; filaments averaging 0.5 mm. 
long, subglabrous; anther 1.5 mm. long, subterete, grooved and 
ridged longitudinally, subglabrous, toward 20 in a flower, very 
unequally 2-lipped at apex, dehiscing terminally; ovary conical, 
canescent or pubescent, the gradually tapering 2 mm. long style 
hairy at the base, otherwise glabrous. Infrutescent spikes 
glabrous, striate, rarely branched, slender, the 1 em. long pedicel 
similar; fruits 9 mm. long by 6 mm. thick across the middle, 
ellipsoid or ovoidly so, smooth, hard, dark green in the young 
state, the older ones aerugineous green; its meat reddish, juicy 
and tightly adhering to the stony nearly smooth seed. 
Type specimens 11945 for flower and 11222 for fruit, A. D. 
E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, Oc- 
tober and July respectively, 1909. 
Of this laxly branched and finely leafed species only one tree 
was found on the wooded summit ridge of mount Burebid at 
3750 feet. For both the fruiting specimen and for the flowering 
