LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. IV, Manila, P. 1., December 23, 1911. Art. 68. 
EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON PALAWAN 
ISLAND 
By 
A. D. E, Elmer 
ANTIDESMA Linn. 
Antidesma leptocladum Muell. Arg. 
Field-note:—Shrub; stem few inches thick, 9 feet high, 
branched from near the base; wood hard, heavy, finely grained, 
nearly atropurpureus except the sappy white outer portion, 
odorless and tasteless; bark light castaneus, more or less check- 
ed and scaling in small thin plates; branches few but widely 
spreading, the slenderer ones somewhat drooping; leaves char- 
taceous, lucid dark green on both sides, tips recurved, other- 
wise flat; fruiting spikes dark green, the berries dark vinosus, 
juicy and sour in the ripe state. 
Represented by number 12808, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
In shallow earth mixed with stones on the wooded Iwahig 
river bank at 500 feet altitude. 
Antidesma ghaesembilla Gaertn. 
Field-note:—Burly tree; stem 8 inches thick, 20 feet high, 
branched from below the middle, crooked and not terete; branches 
likewise crooked; twigs short, greenish, suberect; wood sappy 
