1514 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 75 
glabrous, very slender, blackish brown when dry, 2 to 3 mm. long 
or less; anthers orbicular, 0.33 mm. across, similarly colored; 
styles very similar to the filaments, severally grouped in the central 
mass, erect, also somewkat unequal; stigmas very small; ovary 
truncate and hairy on the top, encased by the united perianth 
bases; ovary l-celled, severally ovuled. 
Type specimen 124632, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Found in reddish soil with a gravelly subsoil upon the banks 
of the Pauala river at 500 feet altitude. 
Hydnocarpus ovoidea Elm. n. sp. 
A small erect tree; stem 1.5 dm. thick, subterete, branched 
above the middle; wood dingy white, rather hard, odorless and 
tasteless; bark thin, yellowish gray or mottled, smooth; branch- 
es spreading, freely rebranched, when young densely fulvus 
tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, descending and the abruptly 
caudate apex strongly recurved, base obtuse, margins entire and 
subinvolute, folded upon the upper slightly greener side, glabrous, 
drying much lighter brown beneath, alternatingly scattered along 
the twigs, elliptic or oblongish elliptic, the larger lamina 1 dm. 
long by 4 em. wide at the middle; midvein glabrate or nearly so, 
conspicuous beneath, dark brown, plane on the upper side; lateral 
nerves 4 or 5 pairs, much ascending and usually curved, also con- 
spicuous beneath, tips not united, the cross bars and reticulations 
fine, nearly equally visible from both sides; petiole 5 to 8 mm. 
long, finely hairy, channelled along the upper side. Inflorescence 
axillary, suberect, 1 to 2 cm. long, fulvus pubescent; peduncle: 
solitary, less than one half as long, bearing a few flowers toward 
the distal end; pedicel slender in the flowering state, thick in the 
fruiting, 5 mm. long, usually subtended by minute bracts; bud 
globose, 3 mm. in diameter; perianth soft hairy on the outer ex- 
posed sides, membranous, the 2 outer or basal ones smaller and 
triangularly ovate, the middle 3 broadly elliptic and 3.5 mm. 
long, the 5 inner ones orbicular, densely ciliate and about 2 mm. 
De . across; these subhyaline ones have a reddish brown appendage — 
attached to them upon the ventral side at the base; appendages 
T rotund, 1.25 mm. across, densely ciliate around the apical margin, 
ic sparsely so on the inner side, glabrous on the outer; stamens 5; 
