870 : LEAFLETS OF PAILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 49 
This Palaquium is very near to P. lanceolata Blco. and 
P. merrillii Dub., but the thicker leaves, more numerous and 
quite obscure nerves mark it as distinct. Neither can it be 
referred to P. cuneatum Vid. 
SIDEROXYLON Linn. 
Sideroxylon attenuatum DC. Prod. VIII; 178, 1844. 
Field-note:—A medium-sized tree; stem 2 dm. thick, 10 
m. high, branched from the middle; twigs slender, quite 
numerous, somewhat drooping and with suberect tips; wood 
moderately hard and brittle, sappy white, without odor or 
taste; bark thin, obscurely but densely checked, grayish 
mottled, juicy and white on the inner side, light brown 
beneath the epidermis. Leaves chartaceous, ascending, flat, dark 
sublucid green above, silvery white or canescently green beneath, 
drying green. Flowers upon recurved greenish stalks, green. 
In woods of moist soil of limestone outcropping, near mangrove 
swamps. Called ‘“‘Tabigey’’ by the Visayan on Sibuyan. 
Represented by number 12452, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Based on Cuming 1243. 
Sideroxylon stenophylla Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. III; 
258, 1908. 
Field-note:— Large erect tree; stem 8 dm. thick, 20 or 
more m. high; branches toward the top only, relatively short 
and crookedly rebranched; wood moderately hard, dingy 
white, without odor or taste; bark thick, brittle, smoothish, 
conspicuously mottled with gray and white, the inner 
portion containing latex. Leaves ample along the ascending 
twigs, chartaceous, mostly descending, smooth and similarly 
sublucid green on both sides, folded and with recurved apices. 
Young fruits scattered along the branchlets or in the lower leaf 
axils, ascending, tomentosely grayish green, 5-celled, 5-ovuled. 
In fertile moist soil near limestone outcroppings of woods near 
the coast. The native Visayan call it ''Salong." 
Represented by number 12411, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
