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especially the young portion. Leaves scattered along the 

 branchlets, opposite or subopposite, fusiformly elliptic or 

 oblongish, acuminate at apex and usually terminated by a 

 minute point, base acute to subcuneate, margins entire and 

 somewhat recurved in the dry state, curing very unequally 

 dull brown, ascendingly spreading except the recurved apical 

 portion, submerabrant>us, glabrous and dull deep green above, 

 paler and olivaceous pulverulent along the midvein and 

 nerves beneath, th^ blades varying from 5 to 10 cm. long 

 and from 2.5 to 4 cm. wide across the middle, petiole 2 

 cm. long at most, caniculate, yellowish, puberulent; midvein 

 bold beneath, grooved above, the 6 to 9 lateral pairs quite 

 conspicuous and divaricate, coarsely anastomosing from above 

 the middle, all yellowish pubescent. Infrutescence greenish, 

 suberect, spicate, 10 to 15 cm. long; the racliis densely 

 olivaceous tomentose, terete, the peduncle proper only a few 

 cm. long and subtended at the base by a series of small 

 bracts, densely tawny pubescent; pedicels 4 mm. long, ascend- 

 ing, similarly pubescent, irregularly scattered; young fruits 

 5 to 7 mm. long, ovoidly ellipsoid, puberulent, crowned by 

 the 5 persistent and pubescent calyx teeth, subtended at the base 

 by 3 small similarly hairy bracts the middle one of which 

 is a trifle larger. 



Type specimen number 10797, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

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



Discovered in dry yet fertile well drained soil along a 

 forested ridge at 4000 feet of mount Calelan. The natives 

 or Bagobos call it "Magsangad." 



Closely related to P. pkilippinensU Merr., P. verticUlata 

 Merr. and to my P. gitingensis. Our leaves are not verticillate, 

 lateral nerves and fruits not as in may Sibuyan specimens 

 and our leaves as well as the pubescent ovoidly ellipsoid 

 fruits are amiller than in the first species mentioned, under 

 which name it was distributed. 



Polyosma gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 



An erect tree-like shrub; stem 5 cm. thick, 4 m. high, 

 terete, branched from below the middle; wood dingy white, 

 odorless and tasteless, rather soft in texture; bark gray. 



