LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
b 
Vol. Ill. Manila, P. I., January 27, 1911. Art. 56 
NOTES ON MYRISTICACEAE 
BY 
A. D. E. Elmer 
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GYMNACRANTHERA Warb. 
Gymnacranthera negrosensis Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. II; 
575, 1909. 
Field-note: —A medium-sized tree, in moist compact soil 
of limestone rocks in densely wooded north hillsides toward 
the coast near Ipil; stem 1.5 foot thick, 35 feet high, 
branched toward the top; wood rather hard, whitish, its 
small vessels containing reddish fluid, without odor or taste; 
bark smoothish or scaling in plates, thick, with an abun- 
dance of similarly colored sap; branches widely scattering, 
slenderly rebranched, the ultimate ones green and with 
suberect tips; leaves horizontal or descending, folded upon 
the upper deeper green surface, tips recurved, glaucescently 
green beneath; flowers few, upon short stout green stalks, 
creamy yellow, quite rigid, the bud bracts brown. "''Dugan" 
is the Visayan name. 
Represented by number 12414, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
It now appears to me more as a Myristica, yet I cannot 
see a reason for making the transfer. The young twigs and 
under surface of the leaves are grayish puberulent, other- 
