DECEMBER 10, 1910] SAPOTACEAE FROM SrBUYAN IsLAND 871 
Although ours is in mature flower and the type only 
in mature fruit, the specimens are otherwise a perfect match. 
Sideroxylon fragrans Elm. n. sp. 
A medium-sized tree; stem 10 m. high, 4.5 dm. thick; 
main branches arising from above the middle, freely rebran- 
ched, the ultimate ones quite slender and suberectly curved; 
wood light, moderately hard or soft, fine to work, white on 
the outside, reddish toward the center, odorless and tasteless; 
bark rather thick, grayish and brown mottled, smoothish, with 
latex. Leaves alternatingly crowded toward the ends of the 
pulverulent grayish twigs, chartaceous, horizontally spreading, 
very shallowly folded upon the upper slightly greener sur- 
face, drying much paler green beneath, glabrous, the entire 
margins involute when dry, apex abruptly acute to acumi- 
nate, base obtuse to subcuneate, oblong, the longer blades 
1.5 dm. long, nearly 5 cm. wide across the middle or just 
above it; petiole ascending, terete, finely puberulent, up to 
5 cm. long; midvein dirty brown, conspicuously raised beneath, 
glabrous or puberulous along the sides; the conspicuous 13 
to 16 lateral pairs straw color, oblique and subparallel, 
ascendingly curved at their ends, cross bars fine and obscure; 
bud bracts acute, 1 cm. long, brown, hairy; flowers from 
the leaf axils mainly, fragrant; pedicels yellowish brown, 
ascendingly spreading, occasionally recuryed, 2 to 3 cm. long, 
striate in the dry state, subtended at the base by small 
rather thin bracts, densely brown pubescent; calyx similar in 
color and vestiture, composed of 5 imbricated segments which 
are more or less united at the base, fulvous pubescent on both 
sides, broadly elliptic to subrotund, obtuse at the apex, 5 mm. 
long; corolla creamy white, 7.5 mm. long, its tube very 
thick, glabrous, 5-lobed down to the middle; lobes truncately 
rounded, separated by widened sinuses; fertile stamens 5, 
opposite the corolla segments, alternating with a series of 5 
staminodes; filament subterete, glabrous, 1 mm. long; anther 
ovately ellipsoid, 1.5 mm. long, basifixed, laterally dehiscent, 
bilobed at the base; staminodes petaloid, also glabrous; the con- 
ically flattened ovary hairy; style short, thick, glabrous, 
cylindric, terminated by 5 small knob-like stigmas; fruits in 
