2328 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Art. 110 | 
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Collected this small species in damp fertile ground of 
dense woods at 3250 feet altitude on the south side of the 
Baruring river. The Bagobos call it ‘‘Saranka-mano.’’ 
Either through a mixture of specimens or an error in 
determination, some of my material was sent out as 10860 * 
under Boerlagiodendron clementis Merr. 
Boerlagiodendron sibuyanense Elm. n. sp. 
Erect tree; stem 8 cm thick, terete, 7 to 10 m high; 
wood soft, sweetish, dull white, with a large greenish white pith; 
bark smoothish, yellowish gray mottled, with scattering ler- 
ticels; the occasional branches ascending, arising from above the 
middle, unbranched. Leaves crowded at the terminus of the . 
stem or at the end of the few lateral branches, alternate; 
the fan shaped blade coriaceous, heavy, duller green above, 
drying unequally dull brown, 9-lobed, the basal ones much 
smaller, the sinus extending down to one third of the 
base, 4 dm long, the longer lobes two thirds as long 
by 7 to 9 cm wide, very coarsely and unequally serrate, 
apex extended into an acuminate point, glabrous; veins as 
many as there are lobes, very prominent on both sides; 
lateral nerves 7 to 11 on each side, comparatively faint, 
divaricate and slightly ascending, forked toward the margins, 
the cross bars and few coarse reticulations obscure; petiole 
ascending, dark green, triangular, at the thickened base pro- 
vided with 2 transverse pectinate excrescences, 1 m long. 
Inflorescence corymbose, terminal, usually solitary; peduncle 
subtended by coarse bracts and by much reduced leaves, 
short and thick; secondary stalks 5 to 8 cm long, sub- 
compressed, densely scurfy brown in the early state, sub- 
tended by scurfy bracts, rebranched from above the middle; 
ultimate branches 3-clustered, the middle one earlier and 
consequently longer, all subtended by oblong densely covered 
with furfuraceous scales, compressed and brown scaly; head 
subglobose, 8 mm in diameter, in the fresh state the mid- 
dle or central head was light yellow while the lateral ones 
were dull yellow; young fruits pyriform, 2 mm long, 1.33 
mm wide across the top, sessile or with only a short pe- 
dicel, enclosed by a brown involucre, fringed with cilia along 
