908 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 51 
Type specimen 12874, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
Only once seen in red humus covered soil mixed with 
shale rocks on a humid forested slope at 1750 feet along the 
trail leading down toward España. 
Its affinities lie with C. rubescens Miq. and the two va- 
rieties under it from the Philippines, but our specimens 
have twice the number of stamens, blades differently shaped, 
without reddish veins and petioles much longer. 
CLEISTANTHUS Hook. 
Cleistanthus integer C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sci. III; 
196, 1908. 
Field-note:—Slender suberect tree; stem 1 dm. thick, 
subterete, 7 m. high; its main branches arising from below 
the middle, finely and laxly rebranched; wood without odor 
or taste, quite hard, reddish toward the center; bark yel- 
lowish gray, peeling in small shredded plates; leaves de- 
scending, nearly flat, thinly coriaceous, much paler green 
beneath; flowers ascending, creamy white, odorless, the sub- 
globose fruits yellowish green, also ascending, 3-celled, bearing 
the persistent brownish black forked stigma.. In gravelly or 
stony soil of wet wooded banks along the Dulangan creek 
at 1250 feet. Quite rare! 
Represented by number 12244, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Cleistanthus (n. sp. in ms. by C. B. Robinson.) 
Field-note:—A small shrub-like tree, 5 m. high, 1 
dm. thick, erect; branches copious, arising from below the 
middle, divaricate, slenderly rebranched, the ultimate ones lax, 
all more or less horizontally spreading; wood quite heavy 
and hard, whitish except the reddish central portion, odorless 
and tasteless; bark smooth, gray and brown mottled; leaves 
horizontal or descending, submembranous, flat with recurved 
tips, light green above, variable in size, whitish or glauces- 
