1674 Leaflkts of Ph[lipp(Nf: Botany [Vol. V, Art. 89 



constricted below the middle and short clawed at the base, 

 incarnatus, oblongish or elongated especially above the middle, 

 obtusely rounded at apex, apparently the lower segment 

 much broader above the middle, distinctly clawed below it 

 and a trifle shorter; stamens usually 8; filaments 1 cm. 

 long, somewhat flattened, fleshly, thickened and puberulent 

 3 mm. from the base, otherwise glabrous, slightly curved 

 toward the apex, freely inserted upon the base of the corolla 

 segments; anthers 1.5 mm. long, oblong, basifixed, with a 

 tuft of hairs at the basal dorsal portion; pistil 1 cm. long, 

 strigosely pubescent, the ovary rugose and gradually extended 

 into the thick terete style which gradually tapers to the 

 subglabrous rather small stigmatic point. Itiflorescence 

 upon slenderly elongated paniculate branches; pedicel 5 mm. 

 long, very thick and rim-like at the distal end, pale fulvus 

 toraentose; fruit globose, in the younger state similarly pu- 

 bescent, 1.5 cm, in diameter, apparently Iseeded. 



Type specimen numbers 12931 in flower and 13170 in 

 fruit, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Pala- 

 wan, April and May, 1911. 



Discovered the flowering number in shrubberies among 

 cogonals; the fruiting specimen in secondary forests, at about 

 500 feet altitude along the trial to Napsan. 



As to our Philippine material it is only distantly 

 related to X. macranthum Chod. based upon specimen from 

 the lake Lanao region of central Mindanao. Also related 

 to X. vitellinuvi Elm. 



Xanthophyllum floriferum Elm. n. sp. 



Large tree; trunk 7.5 dm. thick, toward 20 m. high, 

 terete, straight, chiefly branched at the top; wood quite hard, 

 ^odorless and tasteless, melleus throughout; bark similarly 

 colored beneath the smooth grayish white epidermis; main 

 branches crooked, ultimately numerously rebranched; the 

 twigs lax, rather slender, ascendingly curved, terete, drying 

 olivaceous, only the young portion finely puberulent. Leaves 

 descending, coriaceous, folded upon the upper much darker 

 green surface, glabrous, well scattered along the branchlets 

 and alternating, brownish above and green beneath when 



