1502 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. IV, Art. 75 
also dark shining green, 1.5 cm. long, somewhat oblique, fleshy, 
set upon the thickened turbinate calyx. 
Type specimen 12276, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Gathered in alluvial soil of dense woods at 750 feet altitude 
and along the Patoo river. 
BURSERACEAE. 
Canarium sibuyanense Elm. n. sp. 
A small or middle sized tree; stem 1.5 dm. thick, 10 m. high, 
its main branches arising from the middle; wood white, moderately 
soft, odorless and tasteless; bark grayish white mottled, smooth, 
reddish brown beneath the epidermis; branches spreading, freely 
rebranched, dark brown pulverulent or puberulent, ultimately 
glabrous. Leaves alternate, horizontal or ascending, averaging 
2 dm. long, 5 to 7-foliate, the basal pair of leaflets usually smaller; 
petiole stout, terete, grayish when old, when young sordidly 
pulverulent; leaflets descending, the acuminate to subcaudate 
apex recurved in the dry state, curing greenish brown, the rounded 
or obtusely rounded base occasionally inequilateral, elliptically 
oblong or the smaller ones ovately so, the larger blades 1 dm. long 
by one half as wide across the middle, glabrous except the nerves 
on the nether side; midrib stoutly ridged beneath, minutely so 
above, faintly puberulent when young; the 7 to 9 lateral pairs 
relatively pronounced beneath, divaricate, tips much curved 
and archingly united, also puberulent, the cross reticulations 
quite evident; petiolule at least 1 cm. long, the terminal one nearly 
twice as long, stout, dirty brown seurfy when young; stipule thick, 
adnate, terminated into a 5 mm. long prong. Spike ascending, 
divaricately spreading, solitary from the leaf axils, 1 to 2 dm. 
long, at first dull brown puberulent, soon becoming glabrous and 
gray, yellowish green; flowers scattered, usually single and more 
numerous toward the distal end, leaving large scars after falling; 
calyx thick, rigid, yellowish green, 4 mm. long, angularly terete, 
3 mm. thick, pulverulent on the outside, with 3 broad and obscure 
lobes; petals creamy white, 3, about 4 mm. long, oblongish, thick 
and well separated above the middle, much thinner toward the 
