1778 Leaflets op Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 93 



river bank at 500 feet altitude. 



Possibly as near to E. obtusifolium (Wright) Hook, as to 

 any. 



PAGACEAE 

 Castanopsis evansii Elm. n. sp. 



Tree; trunk 6 dm. thick, 14 m. high, subterete or the 

 base wadded, chiefly branched toward the top; wood only 

 moderately hard, sourish in odor, tasteless, the outer portion 

 dingy or yellowish white, the greater central mass subolivaceus; 

 bark smoothish, mottled, comparatively thick, dingy or yel. 

 lowish except the castaneus inner side and the epidermis; 

 main branches widely spreading and ultimately numerously 

 rebranched; crooked twigs suberect, rigid, light gray lenticellede 

 the apical portion somewhat rugose and when very young 

 with subolivaceus scurfy hairs or scales, soon wearing glabrous. 

 Leaves alternate, descending or the young ones ascending, 

 chartaceous, shining, deep green on the upper rather deeply 

 and curvingly folded glabrous side, much lighter, green or 

 brownish gray or grayish white, also glabrate on lower 

 surface, apex gradually or abruptly acuminate and recurved, 

 base obtuse or subrotund, entire margins slightly involute 

 in the dry state, oblong or ovately oblong, curing greenish 

 above and brownish gray beneath, the larger lamina 2 dm. 

 long, 7.5 cm. wide at the middle; midvein dark reddish 

 brown and pronounced beneath, minutely grooved above; 

 lateral nerves 11 to 13 pairs, relatively conspicuous beneath, 

 ascending and parallel, tips much carved, the numerous cross 

 bars equally evident on both sides; petiole 1.5 to 2.5 cm. 

 long, glabrous, thickened at the base, shallowly caniculite. 

 Inflorescence arising from the uppermost leaf axis, 1 to 1.5 

 dm. long, strict, ascending or yellowish, striate, the young 

 tips olivaceus fine scurfy, few and alternatingly short 

 branched, branchlets ascending; starainate flowers sessile^ 

 Molitary or in small clusters; perianth composed of 5 or 6 

 segments; petals 1.5 mm. long, finely put>eacent on the ex- 

 terior, united at the base, ultimately spreading, elliptic or 

 the sixth one oblong; stamens 10, spreading; filaments glabrous, 



