872 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 49 
pairs from the leaf axils mostly, nearly 2 cm. long, ellipsoid, 
usually with 1 flattened stone-like seed, green to bright red and 
dark purple on the same tree. 
Type specimens 12190 in flower and 12307 in fruit, A. 
D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Ca- 
piz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
A fine appearing tree in fertile humus covered soil on 
densely wooded banks of the Sinuban creek at 750 feet for 
the flowers; in similar soil on the forested ridge at 1500 feet 
for the fruit. In the one case it was called by the natives 
'"Bagomaho," in the other ''Topok." 
Sideroxylon pittosporifolium Elm. n. sp. 
Small tree; stem 2. dm. thick, 8 m. high; the main 
branches arising from the middle, spreading, the ultimate 
ones lax and usually with ascending tips; wood sappy white, 
moderately soft, distinctly sweet, odorless; bark smoothish or 
mostly checked, the inner side with but little milky sap. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, ascending or horizontal, quite numerous, 
glabrous, sublucid upon the upper folded surface, similarly 
dark green on both sides, recurved toward the sharply acu- 
minate tip. base cuneate to attenuate and gradually extended 
along the petiole, the entire margins slightly involute in the 
dry state, drying green, blades | dm. long, nearly 4 cm. 
wide across the middle, lanceolate to oblong, alternatingly 
clustered toward the ends of the green sparsely puberulous 
twigs; petioles 1 cm. long, green, puberulent especially along 
the under side; bud bract 5 mm. long, acute, brown, slightly 
pubescent; midvein prominent, the lateral ones 15 to 
20 on each side, equally visible on both sides, submar- 
ginally united, connected with relatively prominent retic- 
ulations. Inflorescence fascicled in the axils of the 
leaves, pale green, odorless; pedicels spreading, short yel- 
lowish canescent, 5 to 7.5 cm. long, subtended by minute 
deciduous brown bracts; calyx imbricate, composed of 
5 more or less free segments, the outer 3 similarly pubes- 
cent, the inner subglabrous, 6 mm. long, ovately elliptic, 
rounded at the apex; corolla comparatively delicate, 4 mm. 
long, its tube short and broad; segments 5, broad and trun- 
