1304 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr 
Represented by number 12630, Elmer, Brooks Point (Ad- 
dison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
In sand gravelly soil of damp woods near the seacoast. 
The vernacular or Tagbanua name is “Mogalmod.” 
SUMBAVIOPSIS J. Sm. 
Sumbaviopsis albicans (Blm.) J. Sm. 
Field-note:—Small suberect trees or shrubby; stem 0.5 foot 
thick, branched near the top; wood quite soft, yellowish white, 
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odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, dark brown and grayish ` 
white blotched, the inner portion yellowish; branches widely 
spreading, crookedly rebranched, the ultimate ones lax, the 
suberect twigs dirty green; leaves flat, the old ones turning 
yellow, horizontal, diverse in size, deep green above, chalky 
white beneath, submembranous, the petioles yellowish green; 
inflorescence terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils, all the 
stalks green and covered with a scurfy brown integument, sube- 
rect; flowers odorless, the male sessile, the female ultimately upon 
1.25 inch long usually recurved pedicels; perianth scurfy brown 
on the outside, green on the inner, stamineal tube greenish, 
anthers creamy white; pistil greenish and finely scurfy with 
scales or hairs; fruits pendant, trigonous, fattened, 0.75 inch 
across, scurfy brown. 
Represented by number 12636, Elmer, Brooks Point (Ad- 
dison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
Collected in moist black humus covered soil of dense woods 
at 25 feet elevation. Rare and not before reported from the 
Philippines. The natives or Tagbanuas call it ‘‘Dabdab-balod.” 
TRIGONOSTEMON Bim. 
Trigonostemon merrillii Elm. n. sp. 
A lax shrub; stem 2.5 em. thick, solitary or occasionally 
few from the same root cluster, 2 to 3 m. high, very sparingly 
branched toward the top or not at all; wood odorless and tasteless, 
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