1626 ^ --*~^ LBAFLBT3 OF PHILIPPINE BOTANT [VoL. V, ArT. 81 



tuse to acute, 1 dm. long, 3 cm. wide; mid vein grooved on 

 the upper side, edged and reddish brown beneath; the 5 lat- 

 eral nerves oblique and be coming obsolete toward their ends, 

 reticulations none; petiole also glabrous and reddish brown, 

 caniculate along the upper side. Infrutescence upon 1 to 3 

 cm. or even 5 cm. long stalks, axillary, flowering state ap- 

 parently pubescent, angularly striate; pedicel thick, 5 mm. 

 long, leaving scars after falling; fruit globose or nearly so, 

 1.5 cm. in diameter, slightly creased along its sides, 2-seeded, 

 whitish or yellowish white, then bright red and finally 

 shining black on the same tree; seeds plano-convex. 



Type specimen number 12137, A. D. E. Elmer, Maga- 

 llanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Sibuyan, March, 

 1910. 



Discovered in moist gravelly soil on wooded banks along 

 the south fork of the Pauala river at 750 feet altitude. 



Quite similar to P. fragrans Elm. and to P. glandulosa 

 Merr, Certainly it is not P. preslii Merr. It also closely ap- 

 proaches P. lanceolatum Hook. 



Pygeum microphyllum Elm. n. sp. 



A low shrubby tree; twigs numerous, reddish brown, gla- 

 brous, blackish when dry, the younger parts slender and 

 wrinkled in the dry state, their tips pulverulent to puber- 

 ulent, the terete older branches grayish mottled. Leaves also 

 numerous, ascending, alternatingly scattered along the twigs, 

 glabrous, nearly flat, sublucid above, drying brown, paler 

 green beneath, entire, the short acute or obtuse tips recurved, 

 base obtuse or obtusely rounded, oblong, 4 to 5 cm. long, 

 1.5 to 2 cm. wide at the middle, without basal glands; 

 midvein dark brown, prominent beneath, channelled on the 

 upper side; the lateral nerves 4 to 6 on each side, ascend- 

 ing much less prominent, the anastomosing of their tips not 

 visible beneath but plainly marked on the upper side, retic- 

 ulations relatively coarse and barely visible from beneath, 

 easily seen from the upper side. Inflorescent spikes from the 

 uppermost leaf axils, 1 to 3 cm. long, usually solitary, much 

 angled in the dry state, brown pubescent; pedicels few, 

 divaricate, similarly angled and alike in vestiture, subper- 



