858 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Anr. 47 
and dipping into tide water; stem a few inches thick, 
terete, branched from near the base; branchlets quite slen* 
der, thick, heavy, usually curved and with ascending tips; 
wood soft, porous, dull white, odorless, with a faint sweet 
taste; bark smooth, yellowish to gray; leaves spreading, 
thickly coriaceous, a trifle paler beneath, flat; fruits termi- 
nal, shining deep green, the whitish meat viscid and con- 
taining numerous small brown seeds, usually 1 to 3 fruits 
to each twig. 
Represented by number 12152, Elmer, Romblon, March, 
1910. 
This species has a wide range in area and altitude, and in 
the Philippines it usually inhabits alpine regions. In places 
along the coast upon rocky limestone outeroppings it extends 
clear down to sea level and even thrives in saline crevices 
constantly washed by the waves. 
Fagraea nonok Elm. n. sp. 
Shrubby, suberect or more or less strangling in habit; 
stems several, 7 to 14 cm. thick, perfectly terete, branched 
from near the base; branches ample, the ultimate ones slender, 
curved, somewhat drooping, crookedly rebranched, with as- 
cendingly curved tips, the leafy portion green and glabrous, 
wood soft, greenish white, a trifle bitter; bark mostly brown: 
very smooth, blotched with gray, green beneath the epidermis, 
easily stripping. Leaves oppositely crowded toward the ends 
of the: branchlets, chiefly ascending, rigidly coriaceous, gla- 
brous, folded upon the upper very deep green surface, the 
short acute tips twisted and abruptly recurved, margin 
entire and subinvolute in the dull brown dry state, much 
paler green beneath, greatly varying in size, the smaller 
ones oblanceolate, the larger oblanceolately oblong, 15 cm. 
long, 5 em. wide above the middle, rounded at the apex 
‘and with an abrupt acute point, attenuate toward the base, 
the lamina decurrent nearly to the base of the petiole; petiole 
glabrous, blackish when dry, 1 to 2 em. long, plated at 
the base; plates 7.5 mm. wide, about as high, divided, very 
thick, dark green; midvein dark brown or nearly black, 
lateral nerves 7 to 1l pairs but very obscure. Infrutescence 
