1290 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 68 
fruits, whitish green on the shaded side or base, the persistent 
calyx also becoming red, 6-lobed and 6-celled, bearing a prom- 
inent short green style; seeds usually 2 in each cell, deep miniatus, 
finely velvety in appearance, angular on the inner sides, convex 
on the dorsal or back, 5 mm. across. 
Type specimen 12856, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Inhabiting gravelly soil of the densely wooded banks of the 
Balsahan river at 250 feet. 
Between G. mindorense C. B. Rob. and G. currani of the 
same anther. 
Glochidion palawanense Elm. n. sp. 
Erect and tree-like shrub; stem solitary or few from near the 
ground, 1 dm. thick, 5 m. long, branched from below the middle, 
branches freely rebranched and widely spreading, the glabrous 
and green twigs striately ridged; wood gradually changing from 
the nearly white sapwood to the incarnatus red heartwood, 
quite heavy and hard, without odor or taste; bark yellowish gray , 
and checked, otherwise light atropurpureus. Leaves coriaceous, 
nearly flat, gracefully recurved toward the gradually tapering 
acute to acuminate point, margins entire, shining on both sides 
though paler beneath, shining and blackish brown on the upper 
side after being dried, dull and glaucous brown beneath, base 
acute to roundly obtuse and occasionally inequilateral, oblong, 
the average blades 1 dm. long by 3.5 em. across the middle, fre- 
quently much smaller and broadly lanceolate, midvein prominent 
beneath, blackish; lateral nerves 6 to 8 pairs, oblique, strict, 
obscure, their tips more or less interarching far below the margin, 
equally visible from the upper side, reticulations coarse and very 
obscure; petiole glabrous, 3 mm. long, stipule thick, acute, as long 
as the petiole. Male flowers in few axillary clusters, glabrous, 
upon few mm. long more or less recurved pedicels, quite brittle, 
sulphureus; perianth chiefly composed of 5 or 6 segments, more 
or less united about the base; segments 3 to 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. 
wide across the middle, thick, rigid, elliptic or ovately so, glab- 
rous, with scattered excrescences or lenticels on the dorsal side 
mostly, the inner ones smaller, imbricate; stamens 3, in a united 
column, erect, rigid, 1 mm. long, the anther cells longitudinally 
