990 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
with a bitter taste; bark yellowish gray, thick, red beneath 
the epidermis, scaling in plates; the twigs enlarged beneath 
the foliage, glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, spreading 
light green above, yellowish so beneath, oval or broadly 
elliptic, opposite, usually with 2 to 3 pairs toward the ends 
of the twigs, 2.5 dm. long, 1.5 dm. wide, entire margins 
thin, rounded at the apex, truncately so at the base, drying 
much paler green beneath, glabrous; petiole 1 to 2 dm. 
long or longer, glabrous, stout; bud bracts or stipules 2 cm. 
long, 1 cm. wide, deep brown in the dry state, obtusely 
rounded at the apex; nerves 8 to 11 on each side of the 
prominent midvein, oblique, strict, brown and glabrous, 
only obscurely united at their tips, reticulations very fine. 
Inflorescence globose, terminal, upon a 1 dm. long green 
usually solitary peduncle, 7.5 cm. in diameter; calyx tube 
4 mm. long, angular, subglabrous; the 5 segments 6 mm. 
long and extended into thick clavate tips usually longi- 
tudinally ridged and yellowish brown pulverulent; corolla 
glabrous, 1.5 em. long, gradually widening from the base, 
the apex obscurely lobed and more or less fimbriate; stamens 
5, included; filaments 0.75 mm. long, glabrous; anthers 3 mm. 
long, linear, basifixed, 2-lobed at the base; style also glabrous, 
exceeding the corolla, bearing the clavate stigma; fruiting head 
greenish, solid, 3.5 cm. across, globose; cocci 12 mm. long, 
3 mm. thick, angular, free, the thick 3 mm. long apical portion 
easily detached; seeds numerous, light brown, lenticular, each 
end with a 2 mm. long hyaline wing. 
Type specimen 11034, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, June, 1909. 
Inhabiting shrubberies of gulches in the cogon region at 
1000 feet. The Bagobos call it ''Mabalod." Nearly all the 
twigs on the tree were teretely swollen 3 to 7,cm. long 
and 1 cm. thick. These cylindrical portions were punctured 
and inhabited by small black ants. 
SARCOCEPHALUS Afzel. 
Sarcocephalus horsfieldii Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II; 184, 1853. 
The following is taken from the field-note of the flowering 
