LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. Ill. Manila, P. I., January 30, 1911. Art. 58. 
THE GENUS CANARIUM OF MOUNT APO 
BY 
A. D, E. Elmer 
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Canarium cumingii Engl. 
Field-note:—Erect tree, 30 to 50 feet high, along wood. 
ed stream banks at 750 feet; stem 1 foot thick, crooked above 
the middle; branches ascending, ultimately crookedly and di- 
varieately rebranched; bark grayish white, peeling in thin ra- 
ther small and irregular plates; sapwood white, brownish to- 
.ward the center, rather hard, without odor or taste; leaves 
horizontally spreading, the stalks and midvein yellowish green; 
leaflets strongly recurved, descending, rigidly chartaceous, 
shining bright green on the upper deeply conduplicate side, 
duller green beneath; infrutescence often 1 foot long and few 
branched at the base, axillary, pendulous, 6 to 10 inches 
long, all the stalks yellowish green; fruits teretely ellipsoid, 
less than 0.5 inch long, dark olive green. The Bagobos call 
it “‘Ogat.’’ 
Represented by number 11096, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Canarium racemosum Merr. 
Field-note:—Slender erect tree, in forests at 3500 feet; 
stem 25 feet high, with an 8 inch thick bole branches rather 
few, spreading; the branchlets thick, quite long, suberect; bark 
smooth, grayish mottled; sapwood thin, white, otherwise some- 
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