1789 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. flP) 



of lateral nerves similar in prominence and in pubernlence, 

 their tips much curved and united especially the apical ones, 

 reticulations minute yet very evident; petiole less than 1 

 cm. in length, stout, short pubescent especially in the younger 

 state; the stout blunt bud bracts densely tomentose. Infru- 

 tescence axillary or lateral in small cluster along the upper- 

 most branchlets; stalks 1 to 1.5 cm. long, ligineous, terete, 

 subglabrous, enlarged and slightly hairy at the distal end, 

 bearing one or more mature sessile fruits; mature fruit nearly 

 globose, appearing olivaceus velvety, 1.5 cm, in diameter, 

 hard; seeds 5, flattened and placed transversely. 



Type specimen number 12936, A, D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 



In rather good moist soil of dense forests at 750 ieet 

 altitude along the Napsan trail to the west coast of the island. 



Scolopia fras^rans Elm. n. sp. 



A small though strictly slender tree; stem 12 m. high, 

 2.5 dm. thick, terete but wadded toward the base, its main 

 branches from above the middle; wood hard, heavy, brittle, 

 without odor or taste, the thin sapwood badius, otherwise 

 testaceus; bracts dull brown, smoothish, latericius except the 

 epidermis; branches crooked, freely rebranched and forming 

 a dense elongated crown; twigs lax, grayish or brownish, 

 brown lenticelled, mostly horizontal or drooping, glabrous. 

 Leaves coriaceous, subpendant, the upper shining side deep 

 green and conduplicate, paler and duller beneath, drying 

 equally dull brown, the average blade 1 dm. long and one 

 half as wide at the middle or a trifle below it, the strongly 

 recurved apex sharply acuminate and occasionally subfalcate, 

 base broadly cuneate or obtuse or occasionally ronnded, 

 ovately elliptic to oblong, entire, glabrous, alternate, becoming 

 detached while drying; petals black, caniculate, 1 cm. long, 

 glabrous, with a pair of glands upon the upper side at its 

 distal end; midvein quite evident even from the upper side, 

 the color of the <lry leaf, with 2 minor pairs from near the 

 middle and extending nearly to the middle of the blade, 

 the basal pair finer and usually with 2 to 3 additional 

 laiteral pairs above the middle, reticulations very minute yet 



