1272 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 68 
white, odorless and tasteless, rather heavy, moderately hard; 
bark gray, thick, pinkish beneath the shredded epidermis; leaves 
horizontal, thinly coriaceous, a trifle paler green beneath, shin- 
ing and usually curved upon the upper side; inflorescence profuse, 
suberect and divaricately spreading; the stalks pale yellowish 
green or greenish white, the flowers yellow except the pale to 
dark red anthers, a little fragrant. 
Represented by number 12703, Elmer, Brooks Point (Ad- 
dison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
Seattered about in the cogon and fine stemmed bamboo 
formation at 50 feet altitude. The Tagbanua call it “Anyam.” 
. À characteristic tree species of the dry well drained soil of the 
cogon fields while in soggy or adobe soil of low places in this same 
region Nauclea media Hav, takes its place. 
Antidesma subolivaceum Elm. n. sp. 
Slender erect shrub; stem 3 to 5 em. thick, 3 to 4 m. high, 
terete, crooked, branched from the middle; branches divaricate, * 
few, sparingly rebranched, very slender; wood testaceus, rather l 
hard and heavy, odorless and without taste; bark thin, of the , 
same color, greenish or yellowish gray on the smooth outer sur- 
face, the young twigs olivaceous pubescent. Leaves alternating- 
ly scattered along the branchlets, horizontal or descending, sub- 
membranous, flat except the recurved acuminate point, sub- 
lucid on both sides, paler green on the softly olivaceous green 
pubescent lower side, glabrous above, turning brown while 
drying, entire, the average blade 15 em. long by 5 em. wide 
across the middle, oblong, the base rounded or obtusely rounded; 
midvein raised beneath, olivaceous hairy even in the groove 
upon the! upper side; lateral nerves 7 to 9 on a side, very oblique, 
curved especially toward their tips, scarcely united, reticulation 
very obscure; petioles 5 mm. long, stout, similarly hairy; stipules 
linearly setaceous, 1.25 em. long, also pubescent, one from 
each of the petiole, caducous. Infrutescences recurved, 
spicate, 1 to 2 dm. long, fruit bearing mainly above the middle, 
axillary; rachis flexible, terete, green, finely brown pubescent; 
bracts mostly toward the base, similarly pubescent but only 
one half as long as the stipules; drupes descending, compressed, 
obliquely ovoid from the side view, rugose, becoming nearly 
