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top, ranging from 1 to 6 inches in length; leaves descend- 

 ing down hill, thinly coriaceous, dark metalic green above 

 except the light green zone along the midrib, gradually re- 

 curved; flowers terminal, in small clusters, pendant, green ex- 

 cept the white corolla and yellow anthers, odorless; infrutes- 

 cence suberect, pale green. 



Represented by number 13842, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

 Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, September, 1912. 



In compact wet and humus covered soil of a steep dense- 

 ly wooded slope at 4500 feet altitude of Cawilanan peak. 

 "Anonapong" is the Manobo name. 



CHASALIA Comm. 

 Chasalia membranifolia (Bartl.) Elm. 



Field-note: — Erect shrub like tree; stem 7 inches thick, 

 25 feet high or less, branched from below the middle, sub- 

 terete; wood moderately hard, the thin sapwood white, the 

 balance reddish tinged, without odor or taste; bark greenish 

 gray, smooth, latericius except the epidermis; branches rather 

 long, divaricately spreading, freely rebranched; leaves ascend- 

 ing from the green petioles, horizontally spreading and with 

 recurved tips, submembranous, much darker green above; in- 

 frutescence ascending, green or orange red when fully mature, 

 the seeds brown. 



Represented by number 13389, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

 Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 



In well drained soil densely covered with humus of a 

 forested ridge at 2500 feet altitude of Giwantanan. "Ali- 

 wanacay" is the Manobo name. 



Occasionally it is classified as a species of Psychotrict. 



COPTOSAPELTA Korth. 



Coptosapelta olaciformis (Merr.) Elm. n. comb. Randia 

 olaciformis Merr. in Philip. Jour. Sci. Ill, 163, 1908. 



Field-note: — A looping tree climber; stem 2 inches thick, 



