1012 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
7.5 mm. long including the persistent calyx rim, pubes- 
cent, costate, broadly columnar; seeds 12, parallel, subterete, 
4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. thick, subbulbose at the base, apex 
sunken. 
Type specimen 10706, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Upon the lower limbs of a Meliaceous tree at 3500 feet, 
in a humid forested george along the Baruring river, on 
the trail from Todaya to Talon. A fine species with its fine 
slender branchlets gracefully curved and pendant! 
Timonius valetonii Elm. n. sp. 
A small tree; stem 15 cm. thick, 5 m. high, branched 
from the middle; branches numerously rebranched, the twigs 
quite rigid and suberect; wood moderately soft, yellowish 
white, odorless, somewhat bitter; bark smoothish, gray and 
brown mottled, green beneath the epidermis. Leaves of several 
opposite pairs at the ends of the twigs, ascending, coriaceous, 
light green but somewhat paler beneath, flat or nearly so, 
apex recurved and short acute, elliptic, base obtuse or cuneate, 
glabrous above, minutely pubescent beneath in the young 
state, entire, 15 cm. long, one half of that across the middle, 
leaving large scars after falling; petiole less than 5 mm. long, 
olivaceously pubescent, ultimately glabrous; nerves similarly 
pubescent especially in the axils, 7 to 9 pairs on each side of 
the prominent midvein, ascending, parallel, strongly curved 
toward the ends, retieulations obscure; stipules caducous, bud 
scales 7.5 mm. long, pubescent and triangularly acuminate. 
Inflorescence of this plant not seen; fruit ovoidly globose, 
1.5 cm. long, usually solitary from the lowermost leaf axils, 
upon 1 cm. long densely pubescent pedicels, subtended by 
a pair of similarly pubescent acuminate bracts, silky canes- 
cent, bearing a 3 mm. long apiculate calyx rim, smooth, 
not costate in the dry state; seeds elongated, about 40, 
arranged in 6 groups. 
Type specimen 12342, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. Gi- 
ting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
An associate with the following species under the same 
ecological conditions and along the same river. A quite 
