1294 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 68 
2 mm. long; anthers 0.75 mm. long, oblong, basifixed, shallowly 
cordate at base, rounded or emarginate at apex, longitudinally 
dehiscent. 
Type specimen 13819, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
Collected in the chaparral formation on the summit of 
mount Pulgar at 4250 feet altitude. 
Ours differs from G. aequoreum Hance in the leaves being 
papillate and without the prominent nerves and reticulations. 
Possibly it should be considered only an alpine variety of the 
preceding. 
HOMALANTHUS Juss. 
Homalanthus populneus (Geisel) Pax. 
Field-note:—A stocky low tree, with a round spreading 
crown; stem erect, 8 inches thick, 20 feet high, crooked yet terete; y 
the main branches arising from below the middle, ascending, 
ultimately widely spreading and numerously; rebranched ; wood 
soft, dingy yellowish white, without odor or taste, light; bark 
brown and gray mottled, with grayish lenticels, yellow on the 
inside; branehlets ereet, green; petioles reddish, mostly ascend- 
ing; blades descending, subcoriaceous, very smooth, deep green 
above, much paler or glaucous green beneath, curving upon 
the upper side; staminate spikes terminal and erect, the male 
flowers yellowish and sessile; the few female are near the base 
and upon slender ascending pedicels; fruits glaucous green ex- 
cept the yellowish green stigma lobes, obovoidly compressed; 
seeds 2, attached from the apex of the central placenta, 
pendant after the exocarp has fallen, brown, slightly rugose, 
trigonous, the inner side amply covered with a juicy deep red 
meat. 
Represented by number 12612, Elmer, Brooks Point (Addi- 
son Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
One of the common secondary forest trees in rich soil along 
the Lara river near the seacoast. ''Buntatoli" is the native or 
Tagbanua name. 
