1886 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 94 



PAVETTA Linn. 

 Pavetta eucrantha Elm. 



Field-note: — A slender erect shrub-like tree; stem • few in- 

 ches thick, 15 feet high, subterete, crooked, branched from 

 the middle; wood moderately hard, whitish, without taste or 

 odor; bark brown, smooth; branches divaricate, laxly re- 

 branched, relatively short, twigs ascending; leaves horizontally 

 spreading, nearly flat and only slightly recurved, thinly co- 

 riaceous, paler green beneath; infrutescence erect, the stalks 

 pale green ; fruits flavus, ovoidly globose, smooth and shining, 

 0.3 to 0.5 inch long, with a rather prominent greenish point. 



Represented by number 13988, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

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



Growing in loose well drained soil of a densely wooded 

 incline or ridge at 1500 feet altitude of Giwantanan. "Yaw- 

 ocan" is the Manobo name. 



PETUNQA DC. 

 Petung:a long;ifolia DC. 



Field- note; — A small erect tree; stem terete but crooked, 

 10 inches thick, 20 feet high, branched from above the mid- 

 dle; wood moderately soft, subfumosus in color, tasteless and 

 odorless; bark thick, deeply checked longitudinally, on the grayish 

 white surface castaneou^s otherwise; main branches ascending, 

 repeatedly branched; the branchlets numerous all along, slender, 

 green, flexible, spreading and descending or drooping, unbranch- 

 ed; leaves descending, thinly coriaceous, conduplicate and tips 

 twistingly recur^d, margins conspicuously wavy, paler green 

 beneath; inflorescent spikes axillary, erect and usually curved 

 toward the apex, flexible, rachis green, the ascending flowers 

 odorless and also green except the whitish corolla. 



Represented by number 13928, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

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



In rich soil of open woods or secondary forests at 500 

 feet altitude, along the trail to Bayabas and among the hemp 

 fields. The bracts in ours are longer than those on the 



