November 29, 1910] NoTES ON FAGRAEA 859 
heavy as are also the leaves and twigs, erect or ascending; 
3 to 5-clustered; stalks thick, dark green and glabrous, about 
2 cm. long, at the distal end bearing a pair of opposite 
sears from which the subtending flowering bracts have fallen; 
calyx yellowish green, thick and rigid, 3 cm. long, the 
basal one half stipitate; the lobes usually 5, elliptish oblong, 
imbricate, on the dorsal side usually provided with brown 
excrescences; fruit oblongated ellipsoid, the average ones 7.5 
cm. long, 2.5 em. thick across the middle, more tapering 
toward the brown basal region, apex abruptly constricted into 
a green point, lead color or light olive green, very shiny; rind 
thick, enclosing numerous short ellipsoid and finely pitted 
seeds. 
Type specimen 12285, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
Only one plant of this coarse species was seen upon a 
snag in rich pasture lands along the Pauala river at 500 feet. 
"Nonok" is the Visayan name. 
In my Synopsis of Fagraea, page 599 of these ‘‘Leaflets’’, I 
referred this same species under F. auriculata Jack, from which 
ours really differs in having thinner and smaller leaves, and pet- 
iole bases with peeuliarly shaped auricular plates. Flowers not 
seen on our specimens, but the ealyx of the fruiting specimens 
is only one half as large and thick. The flowers of Jack's 
Malayan species are described as deep yellow, calyx light 
green, petals nearly 0.125 inch thick. 
Fagraea gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
A gnarly, more or less erect tree; stem 2.5 dm. thick, 
7 to 10 m. high, its’ main branches arising from below the 
middle; branches widely spreading, numerously rebranched; 
twigs glabrous, crooked, relatively short, suberect; wood very 
bitter, odorless, heavy, sappy white, quite soft; bark yellow- 
ish gray, smoothish; leaves copious, ascending, oppositely 
clustered toward the ends of the twigs, thickly coriaceous, 
nearly flat, deep green above, much paler or yellowish green 
beneath, glabrous, obovately oblong, turning yellowish brown 
while drying, the lamina 12 cm. long, 3.5 cm. wide above 
