Junk 10, 1913] Philippine LinocierA 1653 



green, ellipsoid or obovoidly ellipsoid in the dry state, at 

 least 1.75 era. long, 1 cm. thick above the middle, pmooth 

 subtended at the base by the circularly thickened and sub- 

 persistent perianth disk, terete, apparently only 1 seeded. 



Type specimen number 11833, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

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



Collected in dense woods along the upper edge of a steep 

 ravine south of the Baruring river at about 4000 feet altitude. 



This was distributed under Pygeum, but it cannot be 

 that genus. 



Linociera gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 



A small burly and suberect tree; stem 2 dm. thick, 8 

 m. high, branched from the middle or below it; wood hard, 

 heavy, burly, reddish toward the center, odorless, bitterish; 

 main branches widely spreading, the ultimate ones numerously 

 rebranched; bark brown and gray mottled, lenticelled, smooth 

 and whitish on the twigs; branchlets flattened at the point 

 of leaf attachment. Leaves opposite, scattered but mostly 

 toward the ends of the branchlets, ascending yet recurved 

 toward the acute to obtuse apex, drying unequally grayish 

 brown, glabrous, shining green above, much paler green and 

 duller beneath on the minutely pustulate or coarsely pulver- 

 ulent nether side, lanceolately oblong, base subcuneate or 

 more narrowly tapering toward the basal portion, rigidly 

 coriaceous, margins entire and smooth, the larger blades 2 

 dm. long by 5 cm. wide across the middle or their widest 

 portion; midvein stout and reddish brown beneath; lateral nerves 

 6 to 8 on each side, straight, oblique, faint from both 

 sides, their tips becoming obsolete, reticulations none; petiole 

 glabrous, light ashy gray, terete, strongly curved, 1.25 cm. 

 long, 3.5 mm. thick, flattened and shallowly grooved along 

 the upper side, gradually extended into reddish brown pet- 

 iole-like basal portion of the blade proper. Inflorescence 

 ascending mainly from the uppermost leaf axils, glabrous, 

 pale green but turning dull reddish in the dry state, vary- 

 ing from 4 to 7 cm. long, solitary or few from the same 

 cluster; peduncle proper one third the entire length, sub- 

 tended at the base by rigid and externally grayish brown 



