2324 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor VII, Arr. 109 
terminated by a cup shaped involucre; segments 1 mm long, 
usually broader, yellowish green, glabrous, their margins finely 
ciliate, imbricate; calyx becoming easily detached, 3 mm high 
and as broad across the top, campanulate, the basal one half 
concrete with the ovary, the upper portion segmented; sepals 
_5, very pale yellow, finely ciliate along the rounded apex, 
otherwise glabrous, 1.5 mm across; corolla composed of 5 
petals, pale yellow, glabrous; elliptic petals 3.5 mm long 
by 1 mm narrower, finely veined; stamens many, clustered 
and inserted upon the base of the petals and falling with 
them; filaments glabrous, the longer ones 3 mm, slender, 
more or less united at the base; anthers whitish, broadly 
elliptic, lobed at base, notched at apex, 0.5 mm long, 
dorsifixed; ovary subglobose, with sides obscurely rugose, 
sparsely strigose at the truncate apex; style 3 mm long, 
relatively thick, glabrous, whitish, terminated by a convo- 
luted green stigma. 
Type specimen number 14123, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Octo- 
ber, 1912. : : 
A small tree in humus covered stony ground along the 
upper forested edge of a steep ravine on Cawilanan peak 
at 4250 feet altitude. Only one tree was seen and my 
Manobo companion called it ''Bangnon."' : 
Only distantly related to Symplocos whitfordii Brand, its 
angular and polished twigs are very characteristic. 
