Septembkb 12, 1913] RasiACEAK prom Modnt Uudankta 1897 



yellowish white, slightly bitter, odorless; bark grayish brown, 

 minutely checked longitudinally, yellowish otherwise; main 

 branches divaricate, numerously rebranched toward the ends; 

 twigs lax, horizontal or drooping, the green ultimate por- 

 tion glabrous. Leaves opposite, well scattered along the 

 branchlets, quite numerous, submembranous, liorizontally 

 spreading or pendant, glabrous, strongly curved upon the 

 upper darker green surface, curing unequally brown on both 

 sides, entire, the acutninate to subcaudate apex recurved, 

 base acute to obtuse or occasionally rounded, oblong or 

 ovately oblongish, the lamina 4 by 12 cm. in size; midrib 

 prominent beneath and dull reddish brown, flat along the 

 upper side; lateral nerves oblique, 7 to 9 pairs, similar in 

 color but less prominent beneath, parallel and nearly straight, 

 their ends anastomosing, reticulations very fine and obscure 

 on the nether side; petiole 1 to 1.5 cm. long, glabrous, 

 quite slender, nearly plane or only shallowly grooved along 

 the upper side; stipule caducous, interaxillary, 5 mm, long, 

 triangularly oblong, dull brown when dry, likewise glabrous. 

 Heads solitary in leaf axils, numerous, occasionally terminal, 

 concrete, globose, 1.25 cm. in diameter or smaller, the basal 

 portion circularly concave, coarsely pitted, greenish except 

 the grayish brown depressions, drying grayish white; peduncle 



1 to 1.5 cm long, strict, mostly descending, green, glabrous, 

 articulated above the middle; ovaries 2-celled and severally 

 ovuled, combined into a concrete fleshy mass; seeds pendant 

 from aurantiacus cushion-like placenta, oblong from the side 

 view and somewhat compressed, brown, minutely reticulate, 



2 mm. long, one half as wide, the meat surrounding them 

 light orange yellow . 



Type specimen number 13877, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ember, 1912. 



Inhabiting black compact ground of secondary forests 

 or woods bordering grassy glens or in among the hemp 

 fields along the Minusuang river at about 250 feet altitude. 

 The Manobos call it "Cabac." 



Distinct from yet nearest to S. subditus Miq. (collected by me 

 in the mount Apo region and wrongly distributed under S. hors- 

 fieldii Miq.) see flowering and fruiting numbers 10886 and 11611). 



