1048 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 55 
with young fruit. Possibly the latter number represents a 
different species. Both of Dr. Whitford's type numbers are 
also black. 
Garcinia garciae Elm. n. sp. 
- Erect shrub; stem 5 cm. thick, 3 to 4 m. high, branch- 
ed above the middle, rather crooked; branches divaricate, 
quite numerously rebranched, crooked and relatively rigid; 
twigs ascending, green, quite flexible, glabrous, greenish and 
angular in the dry state; wood yellowish white, odorless, 
somewhat bitter, moderately hard and tough; bark dull brown, 
minutely cracked, the inner layer light yellow and with 
scant similarly colored juice; bark reddish brown mixed 
with gray, smoothish, obscurely lenticelled or when old 
scaling in thin plates, yellow beneath the epidermis, the 
inside lighter yellow and exuding freely a similarily colored 
sticky juice. Leaves nearly similar green on both sides, 
copious, oppositely scattered along the twigs, glabrous, drying 
dull green, lanceolate or lanceolate oblong, easily break- 
ing with a snap, flat, the slenderly acuminate tips some- 
what recurved, base obtuse, the entire margins subinvolute 
in the dry state, the larger blades 7.5 cm. long, 2 cm. 
wide below the middle, finely papillate beneath and nu- 
merously pellucid glandular; midrib prominent beneath, with 
faint lateral ones; petiole 5 to 10 mm. long, more or less 
compressed. Flowers in small axillary clusters, upon very 
short greenish stalks provided with minute brown bracts; 
calyx reddish, glabrous, united at the base; sepals 4, the 
outer 2 ovately rounded and 1.5 mm. long, the inner 
pair obovately rounded and twice as large; petals red, mostly 
3, veiny, rotund, at least 2 mm. long; the 3 or 4 stamens 
upon a short thick column, the style very short and bearing 
thick disk-like similarly colored anthers which dehisce cir- 
cumcissilely; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 12429, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Found in moist humus covered soil of a forested ridge 
at 2500 feet of mount Giting-giting. The native Visayan 
called it ''Taepo" which is also the vernacular name of a 
