LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. Hl. Manila, P. 1., December 5, 1910. AP 4A S 
THE CALLICARPAE OF MOUNT APO 
BY 
A. D. E, Elmer 
HEURES MAE 
Callicarpa apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
Tall tree; stem 18 m. high or higher, 4.5 dm. thick; 
branches mainly toward the top, crookedly rebranched and 
forming a flattish crown; twigs not numerous, heavy, suberect, 
more or less angular, the terminal portion greenish and 
covered with a grayish brown pulverulence; wood very soft, 
whitish, with no taste nor odor; bark yellowish brown, 
rather finely checked longitudinally. Leaves ascending or 
horizontal, curvingly conduplicate on the upper dark green 
and glabrous side, the lower side grayish white with dirty brown 
nerves and bright yellow glistening glands, margins entire, 
oblong to subelliptic, varying from 1 to 2 dm. long and 
averaging 7.5 cm. wide across the middle, short acute at 
apex, base obtuse to cuneate, always opposite; midrib raised 
beneath, glabrate or finely ashy scurfy, with 9 to 12 oblique 
lateral pairs whose tips are reticulately united, all yel- 
lowish when fresh, brown when dry, cross bars relatively . 
conspicuous and with fine reticulate veins between them; 
petiole stout, 3 cm. long, finely and dirty yellowish brown 
or gray scurfy, shallowly grooved along the upper side. 
Inflorescence erect, from the uppermost leaf axils; peduncle . 
also stout, besides being similarly pulverulent more or less 
