1476 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 75 
Type specimen 9106, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban (Mt. Banahao), 
Tayabas Province, Luzon, May, 1907. 
Gathered in damp woods at 2000 feet altitude or at the 
wooded base of mount Banahao. 
ICACINACEAE. 
Urandra gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
A rather large tree; trunk terete, 6 dm. thick, 13 m. high 
or higher, branched above the middle; wood yellowish except 
the dingy sappy white outer portion, moderately hard, tasteless, 
with a distinct freshly dried fruit odor; bark thick, quite brittle, 
yellowish, roughened with lenticels, gray on the branches, green 
on the twigs; the branches numerously and crookedly rebranched. 
Leaves copious, alternatingly scattered along the occasionally 
zigzag twigs, ridged, ascending or the older ones horizontal, 
shining and very dark green on the upper surface, much paler 
or yellowish green beneath, curing somewhat unequally brown 
on the 2 sides, the entire margins curved upon the nether side, 
elliptic or obovately so, apex rounded, base broadly obtuse or 
subrounded, the larger lamina 12 cm. long by 7 cm. wide at the 
middle, frequently smaller, glabrous; midrib prominently raised 
beneath, minutely grooved along the upper side; lateral nerves 
comparatively obscure yet equally visible from both sides in the 
dry state at least, strict, ascending, 10 to 15 or more pairs, reti- 
culations none; petiole leaving large scars after falling, averaging 
3 cm. long, terete, yellowish green, dark brown when dry, also 
glabrous, stout. Infrutescence axillary, ascending, strict and 
rigid; peduncle also stout, terete, 2 to 4 cm. long, few and short 
branched at the ends; pedicels 1 em. long, divaricately spreading, 
leaving conspicuous scars after falling, subtended by bract 
vestiges; fruits solitary or few clustered at the ends of the ped- 
icels, sessile, subpendant, ellipsoid, short but prominently pointed 
at the apex, the base usually provided with the persistent calyx 
rim or cup, nearly 5 em. long, dark dull green except the shining 
- basal one third, its seed surrounded with a soft white sourish 
tasting meat. 
. Type specimens 12277 and 12076, A. D. E. Elmer, Magal- 
