LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 



EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER. A. M. 



Vol. V. Manila, P. I., June 2, 1913. Art. 82. 



PHILiPPINt GYRINOPSIS 



by 



A. D. E. Elmer 



Gyrinopsis brachyantba Merr. 



8'> far only known from the province of Cagayan. Luzon. 



Gyrinopsis cumingiana Decne. 



j^caitt red throughout the Philippines, hut nowheres abun- 



dant. 



Gyrinopsis cumingiana pubescens Elm. n. var. 



Erect tree, 5 m. high; stem 12 to 15 cm. thick, erectly 

 brancheil from below the middle; wood soft, white, odorless, 

 with a faint sweet taste; bark ashy gray, mottled, smooth; 

 l)ranchelets spreading, twigs slender and glabrous. Leaves 

 liorizontally spreading, thickly coriaceous, alternate, glabrous 

 and deep <lull green above, much lighter green beneath and 

 soft pubescent, nearly flat, the entire margins recurved es- 

 pecially in the dry state, drying brown ou both sides, ellip- 

 tically oblong, obtuse or rounded at base, short acuminately 

 constricted at the recurved apex, the larger ones 15 cm. 

 long by 6 cm. wide at the middle, occasionally much smaller; 

 midvein conspicuous beneith, hirsutely pubescent, impressed 

 yet glabrous along the upper side; nerves relatively ob- 

 scure, divaricate and slightly curved, from 15 to 20 on each 

 'iide, quite irregularly scattered, also pubescent beneath; pe- 



