LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
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Vol. IV. Manila, P. I., April 20, 1912. Art. 75. 
TWO SCORE OF NEW PLANTS 
By 
A. D. E, Elmer 
EUPHORBIACEAE. 
Baccaurea banahaensis Elm. n. sp. 
A small erect tree, 5 m. high or shrub-like; wood hard, pale 
white; bark also hard, smooth, mottled; branches spreading 
and erookedly rebranched, the branchlets reddish brown, the 
green sparsely pubescent twigs ultimately glabrous. Leaves 
flat, submembranous, duller green above, glabrous, drying gray- 
ish green on both sides, entire, the slenderly acuminate or 
subeaudate tips recurved, alternatingly scattered toward the 
ends of the ultimate branches, base broadly obtuse, oblongish 
or the smaller ones broadly lanceolate, the larger lamina 17.5 
cm. long and 6 em. wide across the middle; midvein conspicuous 
and yellowish beneath, when young strigose but soon becoming 
glabrate; lateral pairs 6 to 9, ascendingly curved, similar in 
color and prominence, tips archingly united, cross bars and 
coarse reticulations relatively prominent beneath; petiole 1 em. 
long, thickened at both ends, at first slightly hairy, ultimately 
glabrous. Fruits 1 to 3-clustered, lateral, shining smooth, yel- 
lowish white except the dark brown stigma, 3-celled, globosely 
elongated, ridged in the dry state; pedicels 5 to 8 mm. long, 
very sparsely strigose, bracteate especially toward the base. 
