868 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. IIT, Arr. 49 
Represented by number 12126, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, March, 1910. 
Palaquium theoidea Elm. n. sp. 
Small gnarly tree; stem terete, crooked, 15 to 20 cm. 
thick, 8 m. high; branches mostly above the middle, rela- 
tively short and crookedly rebranched, the numerous twigs 
suberect and quite bendable; wood hard, tasteless, ordorless, 
reddish except the thin sapwood; bark thick, yellowish gray 
mottled, minutely checked, reddish brown beneath the epidermis, 
with latex. Leaves alternate, copious, very rigid, ascending, 
flat, much lighter green or even glaucescent beneath, gla- 
brous, blades 8 cm. long, 4 cm. wide across the middle or 
a trifle above it, elliptie or obovately oblong, entire margins 
subinvolute in the dry state, base obtuse to cuneate, apex 
rounded to short obtuse, the young ones short silky brown 
hairy beneath; midvein very prominent beneath, drying 
brown, the 9 to 11 slightly ascending pairs obscure, re- 
ticulations obsolete; petiole also brown and glabrous, 1 to 
2 cm. long, thickened toward the base, usually glauces- 
cent; stipule deciduous, 7.5 mm. long or longer, acumi- 
nately pointed, short hairy on the outside, rigid. Flowers 
not seen; fruits upon erect stout pedicels at least 2 
cm. long, solitary, axillary or from the fallen leaf axils, 
smooth, subglobose, 2 cm. thick, hard, green, with a prom- 
inent 3 mm. long point, 3 to 5-ovuled, subtended by a 
double series of bracts 3 in a whorl; outer series thick, the 
segments obtuse, united below the middle, the inner series 
thinner, brown, .broadly obtuse or rounded, also united below 
the middle and to the outer series. 
Type specimen 12515, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Discovered on a wind swept wooded ridge at 4750 feet 
in moist red clay mixed with stones. 
Somewhat resembling Vidal’s P. cuneatum. 
Palaquium dubardii Elm. n. sp. 
A medium-sized tree; stem 3 dm. thick, 10 m. high; 
its main branches arising from below the middle, widely spread- 
