.IvsK 10, 19K5] Phiuppihis Linociera 1657 



a low river species, has slightly different leaves and much 

 smaller fruits. A more distant relative is L. coriacea Vid. 



Linociera sfrandifolia Elm. n. sp. 



Small erect tree; stern 1 dm. thick, terete, 7 m. high, 

 hranched from above the middle; wood light, white, without 

 odor and taste, slightly yellowish toward the center; bark 

 greenish gray mottled, smooth; bmnchleta slender, very spar- 

 ingly rebranched, the twigs grayish and flattened at the 

 leaves. Leaves ascending or horizontally spreading far apart 

 Hat, chartaceous or submembranous, much paler or yellowish 

 green on the velutinous nether side, pulverulent or sub- 

 glabrous on the upper surface, broadly obtuse at the liase, 

 obtusely rounded at the apex and terminated by a short 

 but sharp point, margins entire, elliptic or more elongated, 

 ?> to 3.5 dm. long, 12 to 15 cm. wide; midvein stout and 

 rounded beneath, fiat and grooved along its sides on the 

 upper surface, puberulent or velutinous beneath; petiole nearly 

 2 cm. long, ascendingly curved, terete, 5 mm. thick, very 

 finely pulverulent; lateral nerves 10 to 15 on each side, 

 subdivaricate, straight, very coarsely anastomosing or inter- 

 arched at their ends, coarse reticulations or cross bars ob- 

 scure, lufrutescence lateral or axillary, either divaricately or 

 ascendingly spreading, the rigid stalks puberulent and green 

 but becoming reddish brown, subangular, usually in small 

 clusters, 3 to 5 cm. long, only the largest ones with few 

 short branches; nuts subglobose or distinctly obovoid in the 

 dry state, 2.25 cm. long or less, 16 mm. wide above the 

 middle or much less in smaller immature ones, subsessile, 

 smooth, greenish, 1 -seeded; seed of a dirty yellowish color 

 with vertical dull purplish or bluish streaks or veins. 



Type specimen number 13425, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 

 ust, 1912. 



This small tree with large leaves wag only once dis- 

 covered in rich, damp and humus covered earth of a dense- 

 ly humid fore.sted flat at 500 feet altitude. "Cobolan" in 

 Manobo. 



