1454 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor IV, Arr. 73 
green, glabrous, subterete, apex conspicuously pointed, 5 to 7.5 
em. long, 2 to 3 em. thick below the middle or across it; seeds 
many, irregular in shape, varying from 5 to 8 mm. across, brown- 
ish black when dry, smooth. 
Type specimen 7359, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Leyte, January, J 
1906. | 
Distributed as C. atroviridis Blm. but apparently a distinct 
species. 
Chilocarpus globosus Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent and woody; stem terete, 1.25 cm. thick, bendable, 
more or less branched all along; wood white, moderately soft 
and tough, bitterish, odorless; bark yellowish gray, smoothish 
or minutely lenticelled, the young green bark with latex; branch- 
lets slender, occasionally rebranched, the glabrous apical portion 
suberect. Leaves opposite, widely scattering along the branch- 
lets, glabrous, thinly coriaceous, horizontal or descending, 
flat or shallowly folded, the entire margins irregularly wavy, | 
much lighter green beneath, oblong or oblong elliptic, the blades a 
14 em. long, 6 cm. wide across the middle, abruptly terminated ; 
by obtuse or acute blunt points, base mostly obtuse, drying brown- 
ish; petiole dark reddish brown when dry, glabrous, 1 cm. long; 
midrib similarly colored, prominent beneath, with 10 to 14 
faint lateral pairs, reticulations quite evident and more nu- 
merous toward the ends of the lateral nerves. Flowers not 
seen; fruits terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils, mostly 
solitary, upon thick 1.25 em. long stalks, globose, 3.5 cm. in 
diameter, shining green, with a white gummy juice, contain- 
ing several crustaceous brown seeds which are imbedded in a 
whitish pulp. 
Type specimen 12229, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
This tall tree climber inhabits moist rieh soil of a forested 
. flat along the Patoo river at 750 feet. The natives or Visayan 
. eallit “Bulacan.” 
. Judging from description it must be close to C. nigrescens 
K. et G. from Perak. 
