1836 Leaflets of PrriLippiNE Botany [Vol. V, Art. 93 



and extending part way over the bed of the river, in clay 

 packed with stones. 



Apparently very near to S. glomeratum Volk. from the 

 Caroline islands. Forestry Bureau number 11518 collected by 

 Dr. H. iV. Whitford in the province of Camarines, Luzon, 

 is the same species. 



Sideroxylon foxworthyi Elm. n. sp. 



A middle sized tree; stem 3 dm. thick, 10 m. high, 

 subterete, its main branches arising from above the middle; 

 wood hard, tough or burly, bitterish, odorless, the sapwood 

 white, the central mass turning roseus; bark smooth, gray- 

 ish mottled, the inner portion latericiuB and usually with 

 latex; branches forming an elongated crown, the twigs rather 

 slender and ascendingly curved, terete, the terminal portioti 

 ridged and latericius short tomentose. Leaves alternate, along 

 the distal ends only, horizontally spreading, rigidly chartaee- 

 OU3, flat, dark green and latericius, tomentose or scurfy on 

 the upper side but soon wearing glabrous, beneath densely 

 covered with similar short hairs, margins entire but curved 

 upon the nether side in the dry state, apex rounded and 

 short pointed or broadly cuneate at base, elliptically elonga- 

 ted, 18 cm. long without the petiole, 7 cm. wide across 

 the middle; midvein very stout beneath and similarly pu- 

 bescent, caniculate and glabroui^ on the upper side; lateral 

 nerves pinnate, about 15 to 17 pairs, divaricate, only the 

 very tips ascendingly curved, similar in vestiture and relative- 

 ly prominent beneath, cross bars very fine; petiole also la- 

 tericius pubescent, caniculate, when old turning cinereous, 2 

 to 3 era. long. Flowers quite densely clustered in the leaf 

 axils or in their scars, spreading, richly latericius short woolly; 

 pedicels 1.5 cm. long, similarly pubescent, subtended by pu- 

 bescent rather short and rounded persistent bracts; calyx of 

 about 5 unequal segments, densely brown hairy on both 

 sides, 3 to 4 ram. long, the outer or larger ones rotund, the 

 inner ones more elongated and with infolded edges along 

 one side, more or less united at the base; corolla glabrous, 

 forming a cylindric tube, caducous, nearly 5 mm. long; the 

 lobes 1 to 1.5 mm. wide, truncate at apex, about 2 mm. 



