1110 LEAFLETS OR PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. III, Arr. 60 
I beg to express my congratulations to Mr. Elmer for 
his activity in exploring the Philippine flora and at the same 
time I wish to tender him my cordial thanks for his kindness 
in supplying my own herbarium with very fine and large 
specimens of these plants put up in bundles, and which have 
enabled me to give almost complete descriptions of the new 
species. 
SARARANGA 
Sararanga philippinensis Merr. in Gov't. Lab. Publ. n. 
XXIX, 5. 
Habitat:—In moist sand gravelly soil of the Patoo river 
at 200 m. (759 feet). Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Prov- 
ince of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. Elmer Philip. 
pl. n. 12230. (Herb. Martelli). 
Solitary trees; stem terete, without proproots, strict, 
nearly 25 feet high, 8 inches thick, few branched only at 
the top; wood dull white, pulpy, harder on the outside; bark 
yellowish, smooth except for the blunt spines or wart-like 
excrescences; branches three, ascending, unbranched, 8 to 5 
feet long, 3 to 5 inches thick, obscurely ringed; leaves clustered 
at the top, ascending, the apical one third strongly recurved 
or hanging, 5 to 8 feet long, nearly 3 inches wide, deeply 
conduplicate on the upper side especially so toward the base 
where itis abruptly expanded, sharply serrate on the margins 
and along the median line beneath toward the apex, simi- 
larly green on both sides; infrutescence terminal, upon a 
recurved pendulous peduncle, 2 to’ 8 feet long, 1 to 2 inches 
thick, subterete, yellowish green; panicle terete in outline, 
lance shaped, 3 to 5 feet long, 1 foot across the widest portion; 
branches 6 to 10 inches long, descending, copiously rebranched 
from the base, all the stalks yellowish green; calyx  simi- 
larly green; fruits green, yellow and finally candy red when 
mature, more or less curved and laterally triangular in shape, 
with flattish seeds and sweetish juice. (Elmer ms.) 
Indigenous name ''Baga-as'"'. 
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