988 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
brous, apex obtuse. Inflorescence a 1 dm. long terminal 
panicle, occasionally with 2 lateral peduncles, erect, the 
younger stalks brown pulverulent, the branchlets verticellately 
arranged and subtended by bracts; heads globose, 2 cm. 
across in the dry pressed out state, upon 1 to 1.5 cm. 
long strict peduncles or rather pedicels, short yellowish brown 
pubescent, usually bracteate a trifle below the middle; ca- 
lyx turbinate, 2.5 mm. long, the upper one half divided 
usually into 5 oblong roundly pointed segments, glabrous, 
occasionally subtended by linear segments; corolia 5 mm. 
long, gradually tapering from the base, glabrous, creamy white, 
the upper one third usually divided into 4 ovately oblong 
segments which are valvate in the bud; stamens also 4, 
alternating with the segments; filaments filiform, glabrous, 
crinked, 0.75 mm. long, inserted a trifle below the throat; 
anthers as long, ovoidly elliptish, minutely mucronate at 
apex, basifixed; style 10 mm. long, glabrous, bearing a clav- 
ate stigma; fruit unknown. 
Type specimen 12176, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
Inhabiting moist fertile soil of a lightly wooded and 
jungled lime-stone hillside near the coast. The odorless flow- 
ers form dense whitish masses. Named after my esteemed 
friend, Theo. C. Zschokke. 
From description it does not agree with any of Haviland's 
varieties under A. polycephala (Wall.) Benth. 
Nauclea forsterii Seem. Fl. Vit. 121. 
Cuming collected this in the province of Albay. His 
number is 878. 
Nauclea gracilis Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. 176, 1885. 
The following is my field-note to number 10847 from 
Todaya:—4A strict and slender tree on steep wooded slopes 
of the Baruring river at 3000 feet; stem 3 dm. thick, terete, 
10 to 15 m. high; wood hard, heavy, brownish toward the 
center, slightly fetid; old bark scaling in plates; branches 
above the middle, smooth, lax, numerously branched, grayish 
