LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. Ill. Manila, P. L., January 25, 1911. Art. 55 
GARCINIA FROM SIBUYAN ISLAND 
„BY 
A. D. E. Eimer 
—O— 
Garcinia luzoniensis Merr. 
Field-note for 12279:—A_ slender tree, on wet stony 
wooded banks of the Patoo river at 750 feet or higher; stem 
10 inches thick, 30 feet high, branched from the middle; 
wood moderately hard, whitish, odorless, distinctly bitter; 
bark relatively thick, yellowish brown mottled with gray, 
smoothish or scaling in small plates, with a small amount 
of yellow viscid juice; branches widely spreading, numerously 
and laxly rebranched, the twigs ascendingly curved; leaves 
mostly horizontal, recurved especially toward the apex, thinly 
coriaceous, shallowly folded upon the upper much deeper green 
surface; young infrutescence terminal or axillary, ascending, 
solitary or 3 in a cluster, upon 0.5 inch long or less terete 
green stalks, subglobose, 0.5 inch in diameter, bearing sessile 
circular and brown stigmas, 2-celled, but frequently only a 
single seed develops, sticky. 
Represented by numbers 12279 and 12145, Elmer, Magal- 
lanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
The leaves of the first number cited has the peculiarity 
of turning black while drying, no matter how favorable the 
dryers may be. The leaves of the last number cited re- 
main green despite the fact that it is of the same age and 
A 
". 
