November 21, 1013] Dipterocabpackae from the Agusan Region VX- 1 



No. 1 4175, Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agu- 

 an, Mindanao, October, 1912. 



Field notes with this specimen are: — 'Large tree in wet 

 -tony soil along a small streamlet of deeply forested shallow 

 ravines at 3500 feet altitude and situated between Duros and 

 Cawilanan peaks; trunk straight, terete, 4 feet through, 7.5 

 feet high or less, only a trifle buttressed at base; wood mod- 

 erately hard and tough, white at least the outer portion 

 tasteless, slightly odorous; bark dull brown and scaling in 

 rather small plates; main branches mostly toward the top, 

 crooked and spreading, rebranched twigs brown and finely 

 lenticelled, ascending, flexible; leaves subchartaceous, folded 

 or curved, conduplicate on the upper darker green side, usually 

 twisted toward the much recurved apex, midvein and lateral 

 nerves yellowish beneath; infrutescence terminal, zigzagly 

 branched; fruits pendant and dark green especially the nut 

 portion. — "Banganon" in Manobo." 



Shorea squamata (Turcz.) Dyer 



No. 13682, Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agu- 

 san, Mindanao, September, 1912. 



Good flowering material and also young fruit. This is a 

 species of rather wide distribution, but it has rarely been 

 collected in flower. Collected at an elevation of more than 

 1000 meters.- -Manobo name "Quailaan." 



Vatica mindanensis Foxw. n. sp. 



Arbor. Folia chartacea, lanceolata vel elliptico-lanceolata, 

 acuminata, e basin cuneatis vel subcuneatis; 8 — 15.5 cm longis, 

 3.5—5.3 cm latis; nervis "secundariis 11 — 14; nervis tertiariis 

 conspicuis reticulars; petiolo 15 — 22 mm longo. Paniculae 

 axillares vel sub terminates. Stamiua connectivi appendici an- 

 theram tertia excedente. Stylo columnaris. Stigma capitatis. 



Leaves very thinly coriaceous or chartaceous, lanceolate 

 or elliptic lanceolate, long acuminate at the apex, cuneate 

 or subcuneate at the base. Lower side of the leaf slightly 

 lighter than the upper. Secondary nerves 11—14 pairs, curv- 

 ed, ascending, sometimes anastomosing near margin of leaf; 

 tertiary veins prominent on both surfaces, forming reticulate 



