966 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 53 
like stigma; fruit ovoidly ellipsoid or conically elongated, 
watery white or yellowish, 2 cm. long, irregularly dehiscent; 
seeds numerous, imbedded in fleshy lobes, broadly fusiform, 
light brown with browner ends, pitted, 0.33 mm. long. 
Type specimen 10681, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
The Bagobos call it 'Balingog," and it was discovered in 
very moist and fertile soil of dense forests at 3750 feet, north of 
the Baruring river. Repeatedly seen elsewhere under similar 
ecological conditions. 
Cyrtandra callicarpifolia Elm. n. sp. 
À 3 m. high shrub; stems several or few, branched from 
the base; main branches ascending, laxly rebranched, the 
numerous twigs more or less drooping and with suberect 
tips; wood soft, greenish, without odor or taste, easily break- 
ing, covered with smooth yellowish green or gray bark. 
Leaves alternate, mostly toward the end of the numerous 
and comparatively short branchlets, horizontal, recurved to- 
ward the abruptly acute apex, thinly coriaceous, dull green 
on the upper glabrous side, much paler beneath even in the 
dry state, quite variable in size, oblongish elliptic or 
oblanceolately oblong, base obtusely rounded, serrately apiculate 
except the entire basal portion, densely lanose on both sides 
when young, the larger blades 9 cm. long by 2.5 cm. wide 
across the middle or a trifle above it; midrib conspicuous 
beneath, with 5 to 7 ascendingly curved lateral pairs, reticula- 
tions obscure, all olivaceous pubescent; petiole about 6 mm. 
long, soft pubescent. Flowers 1 to 3-clustered from the leaf 
axils mostly, odorless; pedicels at most 1 cm. long, recurved, 
greenish and pubescent, subtended by linear to lanceolate, 
oblong, olivaceous pubescent, subequal bracts nearly equal- 
ling the pedicels in length; calyx 7.5 mm. long, brown 
hairy on the outside, 5-segmented nearly to the base, the 
tips slenderly acuminate; corolla white or the lower side 
yellowish in the tube, 7 to 7.5 cm. long, 7 cm. wide across 
the throat, 9 mm. wide at the base, glabrous except the few 
scattering hairs on the outside toward the throat; the 5 
lobes broadly rounded, 3mm. long; stamens 2, fertile, well 
