DeceMBER 10, 1910] SAPOTACEAE FROM SIBUYAN ISLAND 869 
ing, ultimately numerously rebranched; the twigs comparative- 
ly short, suberect, forming dense masses at the ends of the 
branches, roughened by the remaining short tubercles of the 
inflorescence; wood hard, reddish toward the center, without 
odor or taste; bark thick, mottled, more or less checked, 
reddish brown beneath the epidermis, containing latex on the 
inner side. Leaves alternate, ample at the ends of the oc- 
casionally glaucous tips, ascending, rigidly coriaceous, shining 
green above or on the folded side, much paler green beneath, 
drying brown, obovately oblong, 1 dm. long, 4 cm. wide a 
trifle above the middle, the entire margins subinvolute, cu- 
neate at the base, obtuse or rounded and emarginate at the 
apex; midvein prominent beneath, the 7 to 9 lateral ones 
ascending, obscure, with the tips more or less forked and 
united, reticulations obsolete; petiole 1 to 1.5 mm. long, gla- 
brous, usually glaucous; stipule 5 mm. long, acute, thick, 
deciduous. Flowers in small clusters upon raised tubercles, 
numerous, in the lower leaf axils but usually from the fal- 
len leaf axils immediately beneath the foliage; pedicels green, 
divaricate or recurved, brown with a very dense and short 
tomentum or occasionally glaucous along the upper side, 1.25 
em. long; calyx glabrous, 6-segmented; the outer series of 3 
thick, valvate; the inner thinner and imbricate, all united 
below the middle, the apex of the outer ones obtuse, that 
of the inner ones rounded, persistent; petals 6, very early 
falling, greenish, ovately oblong, very imbricate, acute apex; 
stamens 12, subsessile; anthers widest at the base, acuminately 
elongated, bilobed at the base, basifixed; the short filaments 
inserted upon the base of the inner petals; ovary puberulent, 
giving rise to a glabrous 7.5 mm. long persistent style; 
fruit globosely ellipsoid, 1.25 cm. long, 2 or 3-seeded, hard, 
green, smooth. 
Type specimen 12558, A4. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
A fine tree in red.soil with a gravelly subsoil on wooded 
banks along the Pauala river at 750 feet. Dedicated to M. 
Marcel Dubard who recently pubiished in the ‘‘Bulletin du 
Museum d'histoire Naturelle" a critical review of most of our 
Philippine species, describing one or two new ones. The natives 
or Visayan call it ''Molato." 
