1054 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 55 
green filamentous column on the outer side of which appear 
attached dark brown scales or vestiges of the anthers; fertile 
staminate flowers with similar perianths and a nearly equally 
sized pistil; stamens indefinite, grouped upon 4 spreading 
phlanges; anthers subsessile, subglobose, dehiscent through a 
slit across the top; mature fruit 4 cm. long, nearly 2.5 cm. 
across the middle, quadrangularly ellipsoid, with a sunken 
brown apex, yellowish, rather soft and sweet to taste, the 
pulp of the skin yellow not sticky, 2-celled, normally with 
2 seeds only; seeds smooth, -subrotund in outline, 2.5 cm. 
long, brown streaked with whitish laces, plane on the ventral 
side, convex on the dorsal. 
Type specimens 12482 and 12526, A. D. E. Elmer, 
Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of 
Sibuyan, May, 1910; also number 12213 from the same 
locality. 
It was always found to be a slender tree in red sticky 
though well drained soil of woods from 750 to 2500 feet. 
The Visayan call it ‘‘Batoohan.’’ 
Apparently this species was referred by Mr. Merrill under 
G. eugeneafolia Wall., but King and Gamble write of Wallich’s 
species:—‘‘Fruits in fascicles of 2 to 4, globular, 0.75 inch 
in diameter, smooth, brown, crowned by the papillose stigma.” 
There are also some vegetative differences. 
Garcinia divis Pierre 
Field-note: — A medium-sized erect tree, in moist allu- 
vial soil along the Patoo river bottom at 750 feet in humid 
woods; stem 1 foot thick, terete, 35 feet high, branched 
above the middle; outside wood white, hard, heavy, odor- 
less, very bitter; bark thick, lenticelled, grayish brown; 
stem upon subaerial roots or root-buttresses; branches wide- 
ly spreading, freely rebranched, twigs dull green; leaves 
coriaceous, mostly horizontal, folded upon the upper much 
deeper green surface; flowers scattered in small groups along 
the branchlets, the pedicels and calyx green; filamentous 
phlanges 4, whitish, bearing numerous very pale yellow 
anthers; style also whitish; stigma viscid, yellow but turn- 
ing deep red with age; flowers not odorous, and if the stigma 
