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Type specimen number 13003, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Piilgar), Palawaji, April, 1911, 



Gathered from the wooded Iwahig river bank at about 

 500 feet elevation. 



Foliage very similar to though flowers not the same a& 

 those of S. paucinervia Merr. 



BURSERACEAE 



Canarium palawanense Elm. n. sp. 



Small erect tree; stem 1.5 dm. thick, terete, nearly 

 straight, branched at the top; wood soft, light in weight, 

 without odor or taste, silvery white except the isabellinus 

 heartwood; bark rather thin, smooth and whitish on the out- 

 side, with a green hypodermis, the middle portion brown, the 

 inner side sappy white; the main branches widely spreading, 

 sparingly rebranched,, the ultimate ones very slender, about 

 2 cm. thick, suberect at the leaf bearing fulvus tips. Leaves 

 imparipinnate, alternate, horizontally spreading, the larger 1 

 m. long, the peduncle one fourth as long, more or less 

 angled or subcompressed, densely fulvus, striate; stipule 1 

 to 2.5 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, oblong in general outline, 

 usually broadest across the base or a trifle above it, laciniately 

 cut all around the edge, fulvus puberulent but with age 

 becoming glabrate; leaflets 7 to 13, opposite, the rachis very 

 similar to the petiole except for the edge along the upper 

 side toward the distal leaf terminated end, the average leaf- 

 lets 18 cm. long by 7 cm. wide across the middle, frequently 

 much smaller especially the basal ones, occasionally larger, 

 abruptly and very slenderly acute or acuminate at the much 

 recurved apex, base rounded or terminal leaflet broadly obtuse, 

 margins minutely serrate, curing dark brown on both side, 

 the old leaves glabrous upon the shal lowly folded upper much 

 deeper green surface, chartaceous, oblong or the 5 cm. long 

 basal one ovate; petiolule 5 mm. long or twice as long, 

 thickened toward the distal end, obscurely angled, the old 

 ones gray and glabrous; midrib keeled beneath, fulvus along 

 the impression on the upper side; lateral nerves 12 to 20 pairs 

 divaricate, tips strongly ascending and usually united, bold 



