1790 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 93 



Qarcinia bicolorata Elm. n. sp. 



Small tree, with a 2 dtn. thick and 7 m. high stem, 

 mainly branched toward the top and forming a flat crown; 

 wood quite soft, yellowish throughout, odorless and without 

 taste; bark roughened with very blunt excrescences, light 

 yellow except the dull brown epidermis, exuding a similarly 

 colored sticky juice; main branches divaricate, repeatedly re- 

 branched; the twigs relatively short but rigid, gr)arly at the 

 leaf scars, the glabrous green portion subterete. Leaves sub- 

 erect, numerous, coriaceous, flat, very copious, much paler 

 green beneath, opposite, in the dry state greenish brown and 

 becoming detached, glabrous, obovately oblong to broadly ob- 

 lanceolate, the entire margins subinvolute in the dry state, 

 base cuneate, apex obtusely rounded and with a very short 

 blunt point, the normal leaves 8 cm. long, without the pe- 

 tiole 3 cm. wide above the middle; midvein stout, also 

 glabrous; lateral nerves of about 15 pinnate pairs, equally 

 visible fn>m both sides; petiole I cm. long, flattened or 

 grooved along the upper side, more or less excavated at the 

 base upon the same si<le. Inflorescence densely clustered along 

 the branchlets; pedicels green, less than 5 mm. long, relatively 

 thick, glabrous, subterete, spreading; flowers odorless, rigid, 

 caducous, glabrous; calyx very thick and rigid, constricted 

 into a 3 mm. long very thick angular stalk; the 4 segments 

 imbricate, bright cherry red around the apical margin and 

 on the exposed outer side even so in the bud state, broadly 

 elliptic, margins subhyaline, averaging 4 mm. long, 

 curved upon the upper side, broadly rounded ; petals as many, 

 altf^rnate, citrinus yellow around the apex and dorsal 

 side, obovately oblong, narrowed toward the base which upoti 

 the upper basal portion is padded with a fleshy membrane, 

 7 5 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide above the middle, frequently 

 oblique or slightly inequilateral, rounded at apex, reflexed in 

 full anthesis; stamens many, arranged in 4 obscure groups 

 mounted upon a short, thick, angular aJid glabrous whitish 

 stalk; fleshy filaments very short and glabrous; anther almost 1 

 mm. wide, one half as high, basifixed, emarginate at apex, 

 the cells sul)globose, laterally dehiscent around the upper 

 end and down the sides, atro-purpureus; pistil not seen. 



