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tasteless; bark mottled, smoothish, testaceous except the epi- 

 dermis; main branches spreading, repeatedly rebranched, the 

 lax twigs brown; leaves horizontally spreading, subchartaceous, 

 dull green yet lighter so beneath, flat with recurved tips; 

 infrute?cence axillary, few inches long at most, the green 

 stalks horizontal; fruits pendant, the nut somewhat glutinous, 

 the 2 twistingly recurved wings paler green or very light 

 green. — "Malibato" in Manobo, also called "Danginginan" by 



the same natives." 



Hopea Beccariana Burck. produces a wood of the same grade 

 as that produced by several of the Philippine species of Hopea 

 and known here by the name "Dalingdingan." The wood of 

 Hopea Beccariana is known in Sarawak by the names of 



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Mahan-besi" and Mang-besi." 



Parashorea Warburghii Brandis, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 

 xxxi (1895) 105. 



This species was based on fruit, collected in the plain 

 forest of Dag^tpan, Mindanao" (District of Davao). 



Mr. Elmer's collection is the first to show adequate ma- 

 terial of this species. His field notes give the following des- 

 cription of the tree: — <4 Large lofty forest tree on densely 

 wooded slopes at 3500 feet, in the depression between Duros 

 and Cawilanan peaks, in damp more or less rocky yet well 

 drained soil; trunk terete, straight, 4 feet through, 75 feet 

 high, mainly branched toward the top; wood whitish, taste- 

 less, of a greenish odor, burly and moderately hard; bark 

 thick, dark brown, conspicuously checked longitudinally, the 

 middle portion brown, the inner side whitish; leaves char- 

 taceous, ascending, curvingly folded upon the upper side, 

 subglaucous beneath; nut globose, 0.5 inch in diameter, finely 

 brown scurfy, with a mucronate point, subtended by unequal 

 calyx segments; "Lauaan" in Manobo." 



The fruit seems to be identically the same as that col- 

 lected by Warburgh and which is represented by a specimen 

 in the British Museum. The leaves are very much like those 

 of Parashorea plicata Brandis, but they show some pubescence 

 on the under side, which causes them to be slightly darker 

 in color. I have already (Philip. Journ. Sci. Bot. vi (1911) 



