1462 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, ART. 73 
from the somewhat bilobed and inwardly curved base to the 
sharply pointed apex, subbasifixed; ovary 1 mm. long, conical, 
glabrous; style slender, stigma enlarged; fruits upon 2 to 4 cm. 
long rather thick brown stalks, smooth, hard, green, containing 
2 obliquely set flattened stones, slightly compressed and ends 
oppositely curved; 5 em. long when dry, one half as wide across 
the middle, ellipsoid, abruptly terminating into a stout and 
sharply acuminate apex, also more or less lenticelled. 
Type specimen 10478, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Discovered in damp fertile soil of dense forests at 4000 
feet altitude. The Bagobos call it ‘“Magsangod.”’ 
Approaching O. acuminata T. et B. but sufficiently dis- 
tinct. 
RAUWOLFIA Plum. 
Rauwolfia palawanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A small and rather slender tree; stem 2 dm. thick, 8 m. high, 
branched from the middle; main branches suberect, rebranched 
and forming a flattish erown; wood dingy or yellowish white, 
moderately hard, odorless, very bitter; bark coarsely lenticelled, 
yellowish and gray blotehed, the inner portion yellow, greenish 
beneath the epidermis; branchlets ascendingly curved, yellowish, 
with viscid milky sap, glabrous, the ultimate green portion cov- 
ered with excrescences. Leaves coriaceous, shining and bright 
green above, much paler beneath, glabrous, flat or only the acute 
or obtuse tips recurved, cuneate at the base, obovately oblong, 
opposite, usually crowded toward the ends of the twigs, the entire 
margins slightly reeurved in the dry state, the average blades 5.5 
em, wide a trifle above the middle, 16 em. long, curing unequally 
brown; midvein bold beneath, channelled above, glabrous; lateral 
nerves divaricately pinnate, the 30 primary ones usually alter- 
nating with obscure secondary ones, tips united into a distinct 
. submarginal line, relatively obscure yet quite evident from be- 
neath; petiole deeply grooved, likewise glabrous, the lower side 
minutely lenticelled, 2 cm. long or less. Inflorescence erect; 
the main stalk stout, greenish, 3 to 5 cm. long, obscurely angular 
