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side toward the apex, obovate, broadly lanceolate, linear or 

 irregular and unsymmeterical; petals apparently none; stamens 

 numerous, inflexed in the bud state, inserted upon the throat; 

 the longer filaments 4 mm. long, glabrous except toward 

 the brown pubescent base, the inner ones shorter; anther 

 basifixed, ovoidly ellipsoid, less than 0.75 ram. long, laterally 

 dehiscent; the short ellipsoid ovary pubescent when young 

 but soon glabrous; style fleshy, 3 mm. long, glabrous, bearing 

 a minutely rugose flattened stigma. Fruits upon 7.5 ram. 

 long puberulent stalks, 1 cm. across, somewhat iramature, 

 glabrous, slightly compressed, apparently only 1-seeded, 

 occasionally creased longitudinally along its sides. 



Type specimen number 11729, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 



Discovered this large tree species in deep fertile soil 

 on the south side of the Baruring river of the mount 

 Apo forested basin at 3500 feet altitude. The Bagobos call 

 it "Bacad." 



Pygeum rubiginosum Elm. n. sp. 



Large tree; trunk 17 m. high and 7 dm. thick, branched 

 from above the middle; wood moderately hard, whitish at 

 least on the outside; bark smoothish, brown on the stem 

 and gray on the branches, the twigs fulvus tomentose. Leaves 

 rubiginously colored when dry, chartaceous, lucid green on 

 the upper conduplicate surface, paler green or even yellowish 

 so beneath, oblongish or broadly lanceolate, the larger blades 

 12 cm. long by 5 cm. wide below the middle, margins 

 entire, gradually tapering to the acute point, base obtusely 

 rounded or abruptly subcuneate, with a large pair of elongated 

 glands at the base, puberulent on both sides especially so 

 along the midvein and nerves, otherwise the upper side 

 becoming nearly glabrous with age; midvein conspicuous 

 beneath, fulvus tomentose on both sides, the oblique 6 to 9 

 lateral nerves archingly united at their ends, the cross bars 

 evident on the nether side and similarly pubescent; petiole 

 1 to 1.5 cm. long, yellowish brown puberulent, nearly glabrous 

 when old; bud bracts tomentose, 5 mm. long, ovate and a- 

 cutely pointed. Spikes usually solitary, yellowish green and 



