1052 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 55 
or obscurely checked, reddish brown beneath the epidermis, 
its juice is of a sticky light yellow color. Leaves glabrous, 
rigidly coriaceous, horizontal, flat, apical portion recurved, 
slightly paler beneath, linear oblong to lanceolate, gradually 
tapering from the middle to both ends, margins entire and 
somewhat curved upon the under side, oppositely scattered, 
apex blunt, blades 8 cm. long by 1 cm. wide across the 
middle; midrib prominent beneath, the lateral nerves very 
faint and scarcely visible; petiole 5 to 8 mm. long, glabrous. 
Flowers rigid, solitary or few-clustered in the leaf axils, 
sessile upon very short bracteate tubercles; calyx green, 
glabrous, nearly 4 mm. long, united about the base; seg- 
ments 4, imbricate, ovately oblong, with hyaline margins; 
petals yellow or orange red, valvate, 6 mm. long, obovately 
oblong, also glabrous, thick, free nearly to the base, 4; 
stamens yellowish, about 20, united into a short column 
whieh is grown to the basal portion of the corolla, the erect 
free filamentous portion short and thick; anthers erect from 
the filaments, obscurely flattened, 1 mm. long, apex truncately 
rounded, dehiscent through pairs of slits along the edges; 
pistillode entirely absent; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 12196, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
Discovered in moist gravelly soil in a deep dark densely 
wooded eut along the Sinuban creek at 750 feet. Only one 
or two other trees were noticed along this same creek. The 
local Visayan call it ''"Tagbag."' 
Rather similar vegetatively to G. garciae Elm., but the 
staminate flowers throw them into distantly related sections. 
Garcinia dulcis (Roxb.) King 
Field-note.—Strict and rather small trees in fertile soil 
of a forested flat at 750 feet; stem 8 inches thick, 30 feet 
high, terete, branched mainly at the top; branches divaricate, 
rigid, repeatedly branched; the twigs dark green, more or 
less angled and also horizontally spreading; crown flattish; 
leaves similarly spreading, diverse in size, rigidly chartaceous, 
flat, very dark green above, much lighter beneath; wood 
