January 25, 1911] GARCINIA FROM SiBUYAN ISLAND 1051 
of woods in the lowland region and in red soil with a gra- 
velly subsoil along wooded banks of streams. All of them 
have prop-roots extended from the shallow buttresses, strongly 
resembling certain species of Rhizophoraceae. 
Garcinia vidalii Merr. 
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Field-note:—4A small erect tree, in moist fertile flats or 
along the Pauala river at 500 feet, always in woods; stem 
12 or more inches thick, 25 to 35 feet high, branched 
above the middle; wood moderately soft or hard, pale white, 
bitterish, odorless; bark brown, smoothish or shedding 
in small plates, whitish beneath the epidermis but as soon 
as exposed giving off a sticky light yellow juice; main 
branches divaricate, rebranched all along; leaves mostly 
clustered at the ends of the twigs, ascending, flat or the 
margins somewhat curved upon the lower much lighter green 
surface, the upper surface deep green and shining, thickly and 
rigidly coriaceous; infrutescence terminal, usually 2-clustered, 
upon 0.5 inch long green stalks; fruits clustered or rather 
pendulous, flattish globose, 3 inches across, greenish but 
yellow when mature, bearing a large dull brown stigma, 
about 12-seeded; young inflorescence white. The Visayan 
call it ''Bogalot.^' 
Represented by number 12183, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Quite common in somewhat swampy regions and along 
densely wooded banks of rivulets. 'The large yellow 3 to 4 
inches thick fruits hang like apples beneath the dense dark 
green foliage and are very acrid and very purgative. Some 
trees are 45 feet high and 2.5 feet thick. 
Garcinia linearifolia Elm. n. sp. 
A very slender tree; stem 1 dm. thick, 7 m. high, 
branched above the middle; main branches divaricate, re!a- 
tively long, ultimately laxly and numerously rebranched, 
the young portion glabrous and subterete; wood rather hard 
and heavy, reddish white, odorless and tasteless, the very 
thin sapwood white; bark deep or dull brown, smoothish 
