1400 
leaves ascending, the tips as well as the margins strongly 
recurved, quite rigid, dark shining green above, duller and much 
lighter green beneath; inflorescence and infrutescence from the 
uppermost leaf axils, erect; the peduncle and calyx green; the 
4 free petals light yellow; stamens and pistils also yellowish; 
fruits ovoid, shining, purplish, bearing fine brown stigmas. 
Represented by numbers 11346, 11672 and 11673, Elmer, 
Todaya (Mt. Apo), Mindanao, August and September, 1909. 
All three of my numbers were collected in cold moist moss 
laden elfinwoods toward the summit of mount Calelan above 
8000 feet altitude. “Tonau” is the Bagobo name for all. This 
species is common in the soggy forested flats at 6000 feet and 
higher up on mount Apo. It is the only bark about Baclayan 
camp which is used for roof purposes. The small or middle 
sized trees are girdled, and the one half inch thick very pliable 
and tough bark can then be pulled off into slabs of different 
widths clear up to the lowermost limbs. These strips are laid 
double across the roof pieces with their inner smooth sides up 
and need no tieing. Such a roof will turn the heaviest of rains 
for a few months before repairing is necessary. 
Eugenia aurea Elm. n. sp. 
A stunted tree or shrub-like; wood tough, whitish, odorless 
and tasteless, reddish toward the center; bark gray and brownish, 
thinly checked; stem 7.5 em. thick, 4 m. high; main ‘branches 
crooked and widely spreading at the top, ultimately numerously 
and laxly rebranched; the twigs relatively short and terete, 
grayish or the young tips brown, densely provided with blackish 
brown lenticels or small excrescences. Leaves oppositely scat- 
tered along the branchlets, subcoriaceous, shining and darker 
green on the upper side, flat, the blunt acute to acuminate apex 
rather abrupt, base obtuse, the entire margins minutely involute 
in the dry state, horizontally spreading, 3 em. long, 1.25 em. 
wide across the middle, subelliptie to ovately oblongish, the 
smallest leaves scarcely one third as large, numerously black 
punctate on the lower ultimately glabrous side; midrib not stout, 
sparsely hairy along the nether side toward the base in the 
young state; lateral nerves still more inconspicuous, oblique, 
7 to 9 on each side, united at their ends into a submarginal 
LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 72 
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