1084 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 58 
Repeatedly seen in a densely forested humid basin of 
moist fertile soil at 4000 feet, both north and south of the 
Baruring river. This the Bagobos simply call ‘‘Ogat.’’ 
Quite different from C. lucidum Perk. 
Canarium laciniatum Elm. n. sp. 
Tree, with a straight stem 12 m. high and 2.5 cm. 
thick; branches mainly toward the top, the branchlets spar- 
ingly rebranched and ascending, the twigs brown and contain- 
ing latex; wood delicately white, moderately hard and light, 
without odor or taste; bark mottled, smoothish. Leaves 
alternatingly scattered, varying from 8 to 5 dm. long, im- 
paripinnate, with 7 to 9 leaflets, ascending, glabrous, the 
basal pair smallest; leaflets divaricate and descendingly re- 
curved, conduplicate on the upper deep and shining green 
surface, much paler beneath, greatly varying in size, the 
average blade 15 cm. long, fully 5 em. wide across the middle, 
turning brown while. curing, finely serrate except the basal 
one third, apex abruptly or gradually acute or acuminate, 
base inequilaterally short obtuse, oblong, the smaller ones 
ovately so or even elliptic, subchartaceous; midvein, conspic- 
uous beneath, glabrous, with 6 to 16 lateral pairs whose 
tips archingly unite, yellowish, reticulations relatively conspic- 
uous; rachis giabrous, stout, yellowish gray in the dry state; 
petiolule about 1 cm. long, scurfy, the terminal one longer; 
stipule about 2.5 cm. long, laciniately dissected, the short 
base finely scurfy, the segments striate and sharply pointed, 
finely puberulent. Inflorescence axillary, erect, 2 to 4 dm. 
long, very sparingly rebranched near the base; calyx green, 
rigid; corolla also rigid, creamy yellow; pistil of the same 
color, the ovary surrounded by a salmon colored rim; fruit- 
ing stalk thick, stout, more or less covered with a fine yellowish 
pulverulence toward its fruit bearing end; fruit ellipsoid, 1.75 
cm. long, 1.25 em. thick, soon wearing off, subtended by 
a 1 cm. wide persistent 3-lobed calyx, upon thick and 5 
mm. long pedicels. 
Type specimen 11122, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Discovered in dry woods at 1500 feet or about the upper 
