1480 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 75 
Found on a forested ridge at 3000 feet altitude of the moun- 
tain whose name it bears. 
Apparently this is the same as Mazimo Ramos specimen 
from Zambales province, Bureau of Science number 5099. 
THEACEAE. 
Ternstroemia gitingense Elm. n. sp. 
Small tree; stem terete, 1.5 dm. thick, 8 m. high, chiefly 
branched toward the top; wood soft, bitterish, odorless, white or 
reddish brown toward the center; bark yellowish gray, more or 
less lenticelled, reddish beneath the epidermis; main branches 
erookedly rebranched, lax, with ascending tips; twigs grayish 
white, glabrous, 5 mm. thick and obscurely angular in the dry 
state. Leaves terminal, in whorls of 5, horizontal or radially 
spreading, flat, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, curing dull avel- 
laneus beneath, the upper surface usually tinged with red, when 
fresh dull deep green above and yellowish so beneath, entire, 
cuneate at the base, apex rounded and occasionally subemar- 
ginate, obovate or obovately oblong, 1 dm. long by one half as 
wide above the middle or larger; midvein conspicuous beneath 
especially toward the base, deeply channelled along the upper 
side, lateral nerves few and nearly obsolete; petiole stout, at least 
2 em. long, flattened and grooved along the upper side, thickened 
at the base, leaving large scars after falling. Fruits arising from 
between the leaves but not axillary, ellipsoid, 2 em. long, gla- 
brous and flavus, dehiscing in several parts from the apex; 
pedicels subpendulous, slender, terete, glabrous, 2.5 em. long; 
calyx thick, persistent, shallowly cup shaped, the 5 segments 
imbricate and more or less united toward the base, 1.25 em. across, 
5 mm. deep, yellowish green and also glabrous; seeds 2, some- 
what compressed, attached at the apex, covered with a crimson 
red mealy covering. 
Type specimen 12397, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910: 
also number 12901 from Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, 
. May, 1911. 
_ Discovered in moist rocky soil upon a steep densely wooded 
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