JANUARY 30, 1911] Tug Genus CaNARIUM or Mount Apo 1087 
long and 5 cm. wide across the middle; nerves conspicuous 
beneath, especially the midrib, all glabrous and reddish 
brown in the dry state; the larger leaves with 11 to 15 
lateral pairs whose tips strongly curve upwards; petiole gla- 
brous, stout, 1 cm. long, the terminal one twice as long, 
dark brown when dry; stipule of a single segment, 5 mm. 
long, quite rigid. Inflorescence axillary, subglabrous, 2 to 5 
dm. long, ascendingly curved, the longer ones sparingly 
branched toward the base, green; flowers odorless, rigid, yel- 
Towish, scattered in small sessile or shortly stalked glomer- 
ules; calyx 3 mm. long, united below the middle, sub- 
glabrous or only slightly hairy on the outside, the 3 segments 
rounded; petals 3, broadly oblong, about 5 mm. long, faintly 
cinereous on the dorsal side, rounded at the apex and with 
an incurved point; stamens free, varying from 6 to 9; filaments 
glabrous, flattened and widest at the base, 3 mm. long or less in 
some of the stamens of the same flower, inserted on the outside 
of the thick truncate and rugolose sterile ovary; anthers oblong, 
1.25 mm. long, basifixed; dry fruits 2 em. long, ellipsoid, 
without vestiges of hairs, subterete, subtended at the base 
by a persistent calyx 6 mm. across, upon short rather stout 
pedicels. 
Type specimen 11859, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Collected on Angat’s knoll in dry fertile soil of grass 
land interspersed with light woods at 3750 feet. ''Ogat" 
is the Bagobo name. 
Related to C. ahernii Merr. and OC. nervosum Elm., but 
distinet from either. 
Canarium todayense Elm. n. sp. 
A slender tree; stem 15 m. high, 4.5 dm. thick; branches 
chiefly at the top, moderately short and congested; wood 
moderately hard, white or turning reddish toward the center, 
odorless, bitterish; bark smoothish, brown and gray mottled, 
densely lenticelled on the branchlets. Leaves alternate, mostly 
at the ends of the suberect twigs, nearly 1.5 dm. long, 
glabrous, drying brown, thinly coriaceous, conduplicate on the 
uprer shining green surface, much paler beneath, the abruptly 
