914 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 51 
grayish brown along the lower side; bud bracts acuminate, 
less than 5 mm. long, with short yellowish brown appress- 
ed hairs. Flowers not seen; young fruits 1 to 3-clustered, 
usually along the branchlets, upon 1.25 cm. long green and 
pubescent pedicels which are more or less subtented at the 
base by small dry bracts; calyx canescent, saucer-shaped, 
rather thick, subentire; ovary or young fruits densely ca- 
nescent, otherwise green, 2-celled, several ovuled or seeded, 
subglobose, 5 mm. thick, bearing at the apex 2 brownish 
black, sessile, irregular plates; stigmas upon a large, gla- 
brous and rim-like disk which is adnate to the calyx. 
Type specimen 12247, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
Collected it in red stony soil of light woods or thickets 
near a streamlet at 750 feet. Called by the native Visayan 
""Talon-manok.?? 
Its relation is with C. bordenii Merr., but there are nu- 
merous differences. Staminate specimen were collected on 
Mindoro by M. L. Merritt, Forestry Bureau numbers 4067 
and 4068. 
Cyclostemon sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A medium-sized tree; trunk 5 dm. thick, 12 m. high; 
main branches arising from above the middle, crookedly 
rebranched, rather short, the ultimate ones slender; wood pale 
white, moderately hard, odorless and tasteless, finely grained; 
bark smoothish, dull gray and somewhat mottled. Leaves al- 
ternatingly scattered along the twigs, mostly horizontal, con- 
duplicate on the upper very deep green shining surface, the 
abruptly acuminate points strongly recurved, base obtuse or 
acute, glabrous, drying greenish brown, entire margins thick- 
ened beneath the edge, oblong to elliptic, 12.5 cm. long, 
6 cm. wide across the middle, thinly coriaceous or sub- 
chartaceous; stout petioles glabrous, 1 cm. long, in the 
younger ones occasionally glaucous; midvein prominent, the 
7 to 9 lateral pairs less prominent and arcuate, reticula- 
tions relatively conspicuous especially on the lower side, all 
smooth and shining. Flowers not observed; young fruits vel- 
