APRIL 20, 1912] ` Two Score or New PLANTS 1479 
fruits 1:5 em. long, ellipsoid or obovoidly ellipsoid, rounded at 
apex, tapering at base, shining and similar in color. 
Type specimen 12301, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
E Upon trees of middle size extending over the Sinuban creek 
at 750 feet altitude and in a region of dense humid woods. 
"Nonok'' is the local Visayan name. 
Allied to G. latifolium Blm. but really quite distinct from 
that species by its fruits and foliage. 
MAGNOLIACEAE. 
Talauma gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub; branchlets terete, crooked, rather long, lenticelled 
or with excrescences, the suberect young apical tips strigose. 
| Leaves rigidly ehartaceous, alternatingly clustered at the ends 
jw of the twigs, spreading in all directions, shining deep green above, 
| paler beneath, margins entire and slightly revolute in the dry 
state, curing dull olivaceous, acute to acuminate toward the 
bluntly rounded point, base acute to euneate, oblong or lanceo- 
lately oblong, 15 em. long without the petioles, 4.5 em. wide 
across the middle, frequently much smaller ones are intermixed ; 
midrib equally conspieuous on both sides, glabrous, yellowish 
when fresh, straw brown when dry; lateral nerves 9 to 11 pairs, 
strict, oblique, tips usually ascending and interarching, very 
plain on both sides, retieulations very conspieuous and shining 
straw brown on the upper as well as on the lower surface; petiole 
glabrous, 1 to 1.5 em. long, much thickened toward the base, 
plane along the upper side. Fruit terminal or subterminal, 
dark green, ovoid, 4 em. long or less; pedicels dirty yellow stri- 
gose, 1 to 3 em. long, crooked and curved, terete, 3 mm. thick; 
bracts thick, rugulose in the dry state, imbricate, 1.5 to 2 em. 
long, the apical portion slightly divergent; seeds 7.5 em. across 
or smaller, brown when dry, somewhat compressed, wider than 
its length, attached from the apex to the winged and irregularly 
grooved central axis. 
Type specimen 12443, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
| =. 
