1276 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 68 
AGROSTISTACHYS Dalz. 
Agrostistachys maesoana Vid. 
Field-note for 13044:—Suberect shrub; stem gnarly, the 
upper portion conspicuously so, 3 inches thick, 15 feet high or 
long, erooked, branched toward the top; wood moderately hard 
and brittle, without odor or taste, the thin sapwood white, other- 
wise melleus; bark smooth, greenish gray mottled, the middle 
region similarly yellow ; main branches mostly horizontally spread- 
ing, erooked, repeatedly branched; twigs quite slender and flex- 
ible, crooked and curved, descending, with subereet tips; leaves 
chartaceous, shining on the upper flat side, slightly paler beneath, 
ascending and toward the apex clustered, subtended by yellow- 
ish green bracts, odorless, caducous, male only, the recurved pedi- 
cels with the calyx dingy white, the central organ purer white. 
Represented by numbers 13044 and 12851, Elmer, Puerto 
Prineesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March and April respectively, 
1911. : 
This peculiar plant is rather common in our region, con- 
fined however as an undershrub in moist deep fertile soil of 
humid woods or forests at 250 feet altitude. 
"np muta 
BACCAUREA Lour. 
Baccaurea odoratissima Elm. n. sp. 
Slender erect shrub or tree-like; stem 1 dm. thick, 7 m. high, 
frequently smaller, subterete, erooked, branched from the middle 
or below it; wood moderately hard, melleus, odorless and with- 
out any taste; bark relatively thin, avellaneus, minutely and 
thinly checked; branches divarieate, numerously rebranched, 
the branchlets suberect, subverticellately rebranched. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, horizontally spreading, recurved especially 
toward the blunt quite abrupt acute apex, glabrous, much paler 
green beneath, margins entire, the average blades 1 dm. long 
by one half as wide across the middle or above it, oblong or a 
trifle wider in the upper portion, drying dull green, the small 
blades lanceolate, base usually obtuse; midvein glabrous, brown 
