1060 LEAFLETS OF PAILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 56 
Gymnacranthera cryptocaryoides Elm. n. sp. 
Small erect tree; stem 2 dm. thick, 8 m. high, branched 
toward the top only; wood moderately hard, somewhat duller 
white in the center, without odor or taste; bark mottled, 
smoothish, reddish brown beneath the epidermis; branches 
divaricate, freely and laxly rebranched, the yellowish brown 
twigs suberect, the young apical portion fulvous puberulent. 
Leaves mainly horizontal, coriaceous or subchartaceous, flat 
or the sharply acuminate apex only recurved, deep sublueid 
green above, glaucescent beneath, alternatingly scattered along 
the branchlets, glabrous except the nerves beneath, narrowly 
oblong, 18 to 17 cm. long, 3 to 4 cm. wide across the 
middle region, margins entire and subinvolute when dry, 
base obtuse, in the dry state brown on the upper and grayish - 
on the lower side; petiole 1 to 1.5 em. long, similar in 
color and puberulence as the twigs, rugose when dry; midrib 
quite pronounced, yellowish, in the very young ones ful- 
vous puverulent, at most with 13 ascendingly curved later- 
al pairs whose tips are obscurely united, reticulations 
are minute and  obseure on both sides. Flowers not 
seen; fruits solitary or few-clustered from the leaf 
axils or in the axils of their scars, upon short yellowish 
brown stalks 5 to 10 mm. in length; pedicels as long, sim- 
ilar in color, pulverulent or puberulent; nuts short ellip- 
soid or subglobose, nearly 2.5 cm. long, yellow, pulverulent, 
bearing at the apex the subsessile nearly black bilobed stig- 
matic disk, creased especially along one side; the exocarp 
splitting open from the apex along the crease; seed brown, 
covered with a red integument which is dissected above the 
middle especially toward the apex. 
Type specimen 12262, A4. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
Discovered in fertile compact soil of woods along the 
Patoo river at 750 feet. 
The vegetative characters alone distinguishes it from Knema 
heterophylla (Vil.) Warb., an endemic and widely distributed 
Philippine species. It differs from the description of K. vi- 
dalii Warb. in always having less than 13 lateral nerves, 
