APRIL 20, 1912] Two Score or New PLANTS 1487 
Type specimen 12060, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 1910. 
Discovered on fertile wooded banks of the Patoo river at 
500 feet altitude. Its local Visayan name is ‘‘Lanite.’’ 
GUTTIFERAE. 
Garcinia sorsogonensis Elm. n. sp. 
A laxly spreading shrub or a small tree; branchlets greenish, 
glabrous, terete, short branched. Leaves opposite, oblong or 
ovately oblong, rarely elliptic, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, en- - 
tire, margins involute and crinkled in the dry state, drying red- 
dish brown, terminating into a sharp acuminate point, base broad- 
ly obtuse or rounded, the larger blades 15 em. long by one half 
as wide across the middle or below it, frequently less than one 
half as large; midvein ridged beneath, also glabrous; lateral 
nerves 10 to 15, very obscure, divaricate, hard to distinguish from 
the secondary ones, reticulations evident; petiole thick, 7.5 mm. 
long, glabrous, shallowly grooved along the upper flattened side, 
dark green. Flowers solitary or few clustered from the ends 
of the branchlets, sessile, pistillate only; bracts 5, imbricate, 
the 2 outer 7.5 mm. long, the innermost ones much smaller, all 
glabrous and spoon shaped, rotund to orbicular, the exposed por- 
tions thick, more or less united at the base; ovary superior, sub- 
globose, glabrous, the upper portion overcrowned by the thick 
circular stigma 4 mm. in diameter; young fruits glabrous, globose. 
Type specimen 7187, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Leyte, January, 
1906. 
This same Garcinia was first noticed in the humid mountain 
range between Sorsogon bay and Matnog on the San Bernardino 
straits. Number 206 C. V. Piper from Surigao is very near 
our species. 
MEL d cmd 
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SAPOTACEAE. 
Sideroxylon acuminatum Elm. n. sp. | 
Middle sized tree; branchlets slender, terete, glabrous or 
