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iole 1 cm. long or less, densely velvety short pubescent; petiole 

 up to 8 mm. long, the basal one third broad, the upper part seta- 

 ceous, also velutinous. Fruits axillary or more frequently along 

 the branchlets, few to several clustered, dark green, then fulvus, 

 finally purpureus, obovoidly globose, the larger ones nearly 1 

 cm. across, with the persistent calyx rim still pubescent 

 or puberulent, usually costulate, 2-celled by a thin portion; 

 pedicels slender, 1 cm. long or less, velutinous hairy, arising 

 from a very short common stalk or tubercle; seeds about 

 3 or more in each cell, irregular, 4 mm. long or wide. 



Type specimen number 14060, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 

 ober, 1912. 



Collected in stony ground of humid forests at 3500 feet 

 altitude in the saddle between Duros and Cawilanan peaks. 



Approaches R. ticaensis Merr. and R. inindoroensis of the 

 same author. It may be the fruiting specimen of Tri:alysia 

 negrosensis Elm., but our leaves are more pubescent and 

 relatively wider; fruiting cells contain more than two seeds, 

 the ovules of which are not pendulous. 



Randia whitfordii (Elm.) Merr. 



Field-note: — A rather small erect tree; stem 8 inches thick, 

 25 feet high, branched from the middle, subterete; wood 

 dingy or yellowish white, odorless and without taste, 

 heavy, rather hard; bark smooth, yellowish, relatively thin; 

 branchlets lax and horizontally spreading, yellowish; leaves 

 smooth, conduplicate, recurved at apex, much paler green 

 beneath, coriaceous; fruits hard, green, solitary from the 

 axils, 2-celled, severally seeded in each. 



Represented by number 13299, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

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



Gathered in red sticky soil of a wooded ravine at 1750 

 feet altitude. "Simatonog" is its Monobo name. 



SARCOCEPHALUS Afzel. 



Sarcocephalus multicephalus Elm. n. sp. 



Small slender tree; stem 2 dm. thick, terete, 8 m. high 

 or higher, branched from the middle; wood soft, dingy or 



