1506 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 75 
Diospyros sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A rather small tree; stem 7 m. high, 1.5 dm. thick, branched 
mainly toward the top; wood moderately soft, light, white, odor- 
less and without taste, easy to work; bark grayish white mottled, 
nearly smooth or minutely checked longitudinally; branches 
divaricate, freely rebranched, forming a flattish crown, the very 
thin young ones brown and finely puberulent, otherwise gray and 
lentieelled. Leaves subchartaceous or coriaceous, descendingly 
curved, lucid on the upper and darker green surface, narrowly 
elongated or broadly lanceolate, glabrous, very unequal in size, 
the average ones 1.5 dm. long by 3.5 cm. wide below the middle, 
entire, obtuse or obtusely rounded at the base, toward the apex 
gradually tapering into the acuminate to subcaudate point, 
curing greenish brown on both sides; midrib straw brown when 
dry, ridged beneath, shallowly grooved beneath; lateral nerves 
relatively obscure, about 9 primary pairs but which alternate 
with rather conspicuous secondary nerves, oblique, coarsely branch- 
ed toward their ends, equally visible from both sides, reticula- 
tions numerous and bold; petiole glabrous, less than 1 em. long, 
quite stout, flattened above. Flowers rigid, solitary in the rigid 
calyx, erect, green, 7 mm. long at least, the 4 lobes united at the 
truncately squarrose base, subglabrous, the lobes ovately acute 
and margins toward the sinus curved upon the back; corolla white, 
nearly enclosed by the calyx, united below the middle, glabrate, 
only finely ciliate along the margins, 6 mm. long, the 4 lobes 
acutely pointed and recurved, bulged at the base; stamens 8, 
inserted upon the basal portion of the corolla, erect, included; 
filaments glabrous, dark reddish brown in the dry state, at least 
1 mm. long, flattened, linear; anther basifixed, toward 2 mm. 
long, slenderly tapering from base to the finely pointed whitish 
apex; ovary sordidly pubescent, compressed globose, 3.5 mm. 
across; styles 2, each 1.5 mm. long, hairy below the middle, 
glabrate above it, at the top forked into short stigmatic 
arms. 
Type specimens 12091 and 12090, A. D. E. Elmer, Magalla- 
nes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, 
March, 1910. 
Discovered in compact well drained soil of secondary forests 
or woods bordering grassy glens at 750 feet altitude. 
