LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPIXE BoTANY [Vor. III, Agr. 50 
forming a tangled mass, slender, somewhat drooping and with 
ascending tips; wood flexible, porous, whitish, odorless, dis- 
tinctly sweet; bark relatively very thick, smooth, grayish 
mottled on the stem, brown on the branches; leaves heavy, 
descending, slightly recurved and conduplicate on the upper 
deep green and lucid surtace, whitish, beneath, coriaceous but 
easily breaking; inflorescence ascending, pistillate, green except 
the whitish stigmas which upon drying turn olivaceous brown. 
Collected in wet rocky soil of thickets filled with river debris 
below the Sibulan falls at 2500 feet. Rare! ‘‘Rame-rame’’ 
is the Bagobo name. 
Represented by number 11776, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, September, 1909. 
LEUCOSYKE Zoll. et Mor. 
Leucosyke capitellata villosa Wedd. 
Field-note:—Shrub 2.5 to 4 m. high; stems ascending, 
‘usually several from the same clump; wood soft, whitish, 
odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, gray and brown mottled, 
readily peeling; leaves usually descending, curvingly con- 
duplicate upon the upper dull green surface, whitish be- 
neath, submembranous easily wilting; fruiting heads glo- 
bose, less than 1.25 em. in diameter, usually subpendulous 
upon the recurved stalks, dark green. Upon densely thicketed 
flanks along the Sibulan river at 3000 feet. 
Represented by uumber 10656, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, May, 1909. 
MAOUTIA Wedd. 
Maoutia setosa (M. platystigma) Wedd, 
Field-note:—Lax shrub, 4 m. high; stem branched from 
the middle, the ascending branchlets lax; wood sappy white, 
very soft, odorless and tasteless, with a large pith; bark brown, 
minutely checked longitudinally; blades horizontal or de- 
scending, flat or only a trifle recurved toward the apex, sub- 
membranous, deep green above, nearly chalky white beneath, 
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