1188 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL IV, Arr. 65 
specimen collected a few months later from the same tree, the 
natives gave me their Bagobo name as “Balintodog.” 
Elaeocarpus baclayanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A large lofty forest tree; trunk 30 m. high, 1.35 m. 
thick 3 m. from the ground, straight and round, at the 
base buttressed; its main branches chiefly toward the top, 
spreading, crookedly rebranched, the branchlets numerous 
and quite lax; twigs less than 5 mm. thick, the young 
portion yellowish gray pubescent, usually ascendingly curved, 
relatively short; wood soft, light, silvery or maple white, 
toward the central mass yellowish tinged, fine for working pur- 
poses; bark smoothish, brown, thick. Leaves submembranous, 
similarly dull green on both sides, alternatingly clustered toward 
the ends of the twigs, folded above, tips slightly recurved, curing 
unequally dull brown, copious, oblongish, the upper side nearly 
glabrous except the midvein, beneath thinly pubescent, obtuse 
to acute at apex, base acute to subcuneate, entire below the 
middle, otherwise with fine crenate serratures, the average blades 
8 cm. long by 3 cm. wide across the middle, frequently larger 
or smaller; midvein prominent beneath, canescent, finally gla- 
brate; lateral ones much less conspicuous, 7 to 10 on each side 
of the midvein, oblique, forked at their ends and reticulately 
united, reticulations obscure, with large hairy glands in the axils 
of the nerves; petiole 1.5 em. long, hairy matted along the upper 
flat or grooved side, otherwise becoming subglabrate. Buds 
ovoidly oblong, densely silky strigose, 5 mm. long; segments 5, 
lanceolately oblong, also appressed hairy on the inner side 
which has a prominent midvein, barely united at the base; 
petals also 5, pale white, at least as long as the sepals, 
oblong in outline, laciniately divided into 5 to 7 glabrous seg- 
ments, the dorsal side up to the segments densely covered with 
silky hairs, otherwise nearly glabrous; stamens upon 1 mm. long 
filaments, crowded about the pistil, about 35 in number; anthers 
longer, also linear, minutely cleft at the apex which bears a tuft 
of minute hairs; ovary hairy; style rather thick, becoming gradual- 
ly thinner toward the small stigma. Fruit globose like a marble, 
2 cm. in diameter, dark green, glabrous even in the young state, 
its spikes and pedicels also glabrous, stout, ligneous. 
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