1058 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. HI, Arr. 56 
wise exactly as in the type. Again, it is closely allied to 
M. cumingii Warb. and M. mindoroensis Merr., both from the 
island of Mindoro. 
Gymnacranthera lanceolata Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
Suppl. I; 55, 1906. 
Field-note for 11136:—4 straight and erect tree, 30 feet 
high, in woods along a stream at 1000 feet; stem terete, 8 
inches thick, branched toward the top only; wood moderate- 
ly hard, without odor or taste or slightly bitter, whitish 
with reddish streaks; bark brown, mottled, minutely checked, 
reddish brown beneath the epidermis, quite juicy; branches 
numerously rebranched, forming a dense rounded crown; twigs 
somewhat drooping, slender, their ends green and suberect; 
leaves divaricate and descending, thinly coriaceous, margins 
wavy, conduplicate on the upper dull green or frequently 
subglaucescent surface, beneath yellowish brown especially 
the young ones, subglaucescent beneath; inflorescent suberect, 
green and densely covered witn rufous brown hairs; calyx 
yellowish, stamens creamy white. 
Represented by number 11136, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, July, 1909; also 12537, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Gymnacranthera suluensis Warb. Monog. der Myrist. 
373, 1897. 
Field-note:—Stem 35 feet high and 8 inches thick, in 
woods along the Baracatan creek at 1500 feet; wood easily 
eutting and splitting, whitish, moderately hard, odorless and 
tasteless; bark mottled, smooth; the few main branches aris- 
ing from below the middle, ascending, giving rise to many 
lax divaricate branchlets; leaves coriaceous, smooth on both 
sides, shallowly conduplicate on the upper surface, tips abrupt- 
ly recurved, glaucous beneath, the principal veins yellow- 
ish; nuts lateral along the branchlets, ascending, upon thick 
erectly curved stalks, 0.5 inch across, nearly 1 inch long, 
olive green, surrounded by a red mass of a fleshy membrane: 
"Magolomog" is the Bagobo name. ` 
