January 25, 1911] GARCINIA FROM ŠSIBUYAN ISLAND 1053 
moderately hard and bitter, odorless, yellowish; bark dull 
brown or mottled especially toward the top, roughened with 
numerous lenticels, yellowish beneath the epidermis, the inner 
side light yellow, with a viscid similarly colored juice; in- 
florescence clustered upon short green tubercles scattered along 
the branchlets; pedicels and calyx green; the rigid pedicels 
and 5 filamentous forks pale greenish or greenish white; 
anthers brown; the dwarfed ovary or stamineal glands pale 
yellow, more or less lacerated. The local a eall it 
"*Bogalot."' 
Represented by number 12298, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Garcinia gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
A very slender tree; stem 8 to 14 em. thick, 5 to 8 m. 
high, terete, branched toward the top only, not perfectly 
straight; branches relatively short, numerously and laxly 
rebranched, forming an elongated crown; the twigs green, 
glabrous, terete; wood whitish, moderately soft, odorless and 
tasteless; bark yellowish gray mottled, smooth, with but 
little yellowish sap. Leaves copious, opposite, glabrous. drying 
dull green, elliptic, entire, at the apex abruptly running 
into a bluntly pointed caudate short. or longer point, base 
abruptly acute or obtuse, the medium lamina 1 dm. long, 
nearly 4 cm. wide across the middle, coriaceous, horizontally 
spreading, slightly folded upon the upper side, paler green 
beneath; midrib conspicuous and brown beneath, with nu- 
merous fine lateral nerves; petiole dark brown when dry, less 
than .1 cm. long, glabrous. Flowers solitary in the leaf 
axils or along the twigs, or the staminate more numerous 
and upon tubercles; pistillate ones upon 5 mm. long glabrous 
pedicels subtended at the base by 1 to 3 pairs of decussately 
arranged minute bracts; calyx yellowish green, with 4 sepals, 
the outer 2 very small, the inner 2.5 mm. long and rotund; 
petals yellowish, 4, thinner in texture, equal in size and 
shape to the inner pair of sepals, all deeply concave on the 
upper side; stigma greenish, viscid, large, umbrella-shaped, 
upon a short thick stalk; stamens apparently wanting or in 
the bud state represented by a somewhat consolidated dark 
