1292 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 68 
column, 1.5 mm. long; the pale yellow anthers 2-celled, longitudi- 
nally dehiscent; the thick, dark brown connectives protruding 
inte 3 short obtuse points, closely clubbed together; capsule 
glabrous, nearly 1 em. long, slightly obovoidly globose, with 
truncate apex bearing the persistent style. 
Type specimen 13215, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
'This shrub was gathered from the summit of mount Pulgar 
at 4000 feet, where in associations with other low interlaced shrubs 
it forms dense rigid chaparral growths. 
GELONIUM Roxb. 
Gelonium subglomerulatum Elm. n. sp. 
Slender erect tree of small stature; stem terete, nearly 
straight, 2.5 dm. thick, 9 m. high, branched chiefly at the top; 1 
wood white, moderately hard, light, odorless, sweetish; bark P 
rather smooth, grayish mottled, dry and whitish except the 
epidermis; branches numerously and crookedly rebranched, the 
ascending twigs quite rigid, the leaf bearing portion glabrous 
and very dull green. Leaves alternate, scattered along the 
ultimate glaucous brown twigs, elliptic to oblongish or obovately 
oblong, the entire margins recurved in the dry state, ascending, 
shining on both sides, paler green beneath, nearly flat, glabrous, 
rounded or bluntly obtuse at apex, base frequently a trifle ine- 
quilateral, cuneate or obtusely rounded, the average blades 
7.5 cm. long by 4 em. wide across the middle or immediately above 
it, curing greenish, coriaceous; petiole glaucous brown, 7.5 mm. 
long, stout, midvein prominent beneath; the 5 pairs of lateral 
nerves ascending, much less conspicuous beneath, more prom- 
inent on the upper surface in the dry state, their tips curved 
and: more or less united, cross bars and reticulations quite ob- 
scure. Flowers deciduous, odorless, fascicled in the lowermost 
leaf axils or in their scars, upon very short bracteated stalks; 
pedicels 1 to 2 mm. long, glabrous, fleshy; perianth segments 5, 
. glabrous, ochraceus, elliptic or oval, imbricate, more or less 
united toward the base, the inner ones smaller, 5 mm. long. 
margins thin or subhyaline; stamens indefinite, centrally clus- 
