1274 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 68 
especially on the outside, without odor or taste; bark brown 
and gray, reddish from the hypodermis clear to the wood; leaves 
horizontal, ascending from the petiole, thinly chartaceous, 
twistingly recurved, tips abruptly so, dark green above, much 
paler beneath, diverse in size; inflorescence erect, terminal or 
from the uppermost leaf axils, all the stalks green; buds red- 
dish, flowers yellow and odorless. 
Represented by number 12623, Elmer, Brooks Point (Addi- 
son Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
Very common along the south eastern coast. Either in 
rich moist soil of dense forests near the coast or in gravelly or 
otherwise poor soil of shruberries bordering grassy glens. 
“Limo” is the Tagbanua name. 
Alchornea arborea Elm.|n. sp. 
A middle sized tree; stem straight, terete, 3 dm. thick, 12 m. 
high, its main branches arising from above the middle; wood 
moderately hard and brittle, dingy yellowish white throughout, D 
without odor or taste; bark smooth, grayish white on the inner i 
side; branches crookedly rebranched, the short rather stiff twigs 3 
suberect, forming a rather dense crown, the young apical portion 
yellowish green puberulent, the branchlets lenticelled. Leaves 
alternating, descending, subchartaceous, strongly recurved to- 
ward the acute tip, folded upon the upper very dark green and 
lucid surface, much paler green beneath, glabrous, drying yellow- 
ish brown, the rounded or bluntly obtuse base entire, otherwise 
coarsely and sinuously serrate, the average blades 15 em. long 
by 6 em. wide across the middle or slightly above it; midvein 
conspicuous beneath, nearly glabrous; lateral nerves 7 or 8 pairs, 
also prominent, much ascending, their tips branched and more 
or less united, cross bars and reticulations quite bold from both 
sides; petiole 3 cm. long, terete, thickened at both ends, sub- 
glabrous. Inflorescence nearly odorless, erect and terminal, 
1 to 2 dm. long, paniculately branched from near the base, all 
the stalks dark green and subtended by bracts, finely velvety 
which in the dry state turns olivaceous; flowers deciduous, sessile 
or upon very short pedicels, articulate, subtended by a single 
bract; these are about 1.5 mm. long, acutely pointed or the smaller 
ones merely rounded, ovate in outline, minutely pubescent on 
