916 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vou. III, Arr. 51 
EVERETTIODENDRON Merr. ` 
Everettiodendron philippinense Merr, in Philip. Journ. 
Sci. IV; 279, 1909. ' 
Field-note:—Slender tree; stem subterete, 7.5 cm. thick, 
7 m. high or/much larger; branches mostly at the top, 
widely spreading, rebranched, the twigs suberect; wood odorless 
and tasteless, soft or rather hard, the sapwood white, red 
in the center, with fine radial lines; bark brown, more or 
less shedding in small plates, on the branches smooth; 
leaves horizontal or descending, coriaceous, flat or slightly 
folded, tips recurved, deep dull green above, much ligh- 
ter green beneath, petioles brownish; fruits solitary from 
the uppermost leaf axils, subpendulous, dull reddish brown, 
subglobose, 2.5 cm. across, with a conspicuous apex, 3-celled, 
the thick exocarps falling off thereby leaving the seeds in 
tact to the persistent placentae, upon 2.5 cm. long pedicels. 
In humus covered stieky red soil of a forested bench or 
ridge at 1250 feet. 
Represented by number 12204, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
EXCOECARIA Linn. 
Excoecaria philippinensis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
Suppl. I; 82, 1906, 
Field-note:—Small tree; stem 1 dm. thick, 5 m. high; 
main branches from the middle, laxly rebranched and widely 
spreading, the ultimate ones green and suberect; wood quite soft, 
white and tinged with red especially toward the center, odorless 
and tasteless; bark thin and yellowish brown, scaling in 
thin plates, with an abundance of viscid latex; leaves hor- 
izontal or ascending, nearly flat, dull green above, much 
paler or yellowish so beneath; inflorescent spikes erect, sol- 
itary or few, terminal, the rachis yellowish red, the flowers 
light yellow. Collected in red soil among rocks of a forested 
ridge at 2750 feet. ''Limbahon"' is the local Visayan name. 
Represented by number 12432, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
