1100 LraArFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 59 
on the main branches of lofty trees, or terrestrial and tree- 
like in humid woods of low moist flats at 6250 feet and in 
the shrubberies at a higher elevation on mount Apo; stem 
ascendingly branched, rigid; wood rather hard, whitish, closely 
grained, without odor or taste; bark brown, longitudinally 
checked, greenish black and smooth on the branches; leaves 
rigidly coriaceous, ascending, slightly recurved, very deep dull 
green or shining above, only shallowly conduplicate, much light- 
er or even yellowish green beneath, the young leaves red- 
dish; rachis green or reddish on the upper exposed side; 
pedicels recurved, light green; calyx similar in color, the 
segments the color of the corolla which is of a very pretty 
waxy red; style and filaments whitish, anthers yellowish 
brown. This the Bagobos called ''Cayaupang."' 
Represented by numbers 11470, 11390 and 11252, Elmer, 
Todaya (Mt. Apo), Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Al of these specimens vary somewhat from one another 
and none is typical of the type specimen collected by Dr. 
Foxworthy on mount Victoria of Palawan. 
DIPLYCOSIA Blm. 
Diplycosia baclayanensis Elm. n. sp. 
An epiphytic shrub; stem 1 to 2 m. long, rigid, branched, 
the larger ones 2 to 3 em. thick, ascending; wood greenish 
white, with a large pith; bark brown or grayish, smooth 
or becoming thinly shredded; twigs yellowish gray and smooth. 
Leaves thickly coriaceous, dull green above, much lighter 
beneath, ascending, the young ones reddish, flat, the entire 
margins rolled upon the under side in the dry state, alter- 
natingly scattered or occasionally clustered in subwhorls, 
glabrous, minutely punctate beneath, ovately oblong, rounded 
or obscurely obtuse at the apex which is terminated by a 
very short mucronate point, base obtuse or rounded, the 
medium blades 7 cm. long and 4 cm. wide above the middle, 
drying brown; petiole 5 mm. long, also glabrous, stout, 
brown, deeply indented into the cortex of the branchlets; 
midrib conspicuous beneath, impressed on the upper side, 
with 2 to 4 lateral nerves on each side; the heavier pair 
