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the margins and exterior, when dry neariy black, glabrous, 
the truneately rounded top with 4 inwardly appressed seg- 
ments; ovules 4, compressed, hyaline ciliate along the edges. 
stigma a rough rim-like disk. 
Type specimen number 12531, A. D. E. Elmer, Magal- 
lanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Discovered in rocky ground of a very damp densely 
forested flat along the Patoo river at 750 feet above the sea. 
The local Visayan call it *“Palad-amok.”” 
Related to yet very distinct from Boerlagiodendron min- 
danaense Merr. 
4 Asavsr 8, 1914] New ARALIACEAE FROM MINDANAO 2329 
Boerlagiodendron simplicifolia Elm. n. sp. 
Shrubby; stem less than 1 dm thick, crooked and sub- 
terete, 3 to 5 m high, branched from the middle; wood 
soft, slightly sweet, odorless, yellowish; bark similar in color 
except the old epidermis which is gray, thick; branches re- 
peatedly rebranched, widely spreading; twigs terete, 1.25 cm 
thick, slender, crookedly curved, the leaf bearing portion 
suberect. Leaves simple, aternatingly clustered toward the 
ends of the branchlets, mostly ascending, rigidly coriaceous, 
glabrous, lucid and deep green above, much paler beneath, 
the average blades 2 dm long by 7 cm wide across the 
middle or widest portion, oblong, similarly tapering at both 
ends, base obtuse, apex acutely pointed, curing unequally 
dull brown on their sides, margins subsinuately serrate, the 
edges subinvolute in the dry state; petiole 8 cm long, also 
glabrous, terete, at the base crowned by a green ring-like 
stipule; midrib prominent beneath, ridged along the upper 
side; primary lateral nerves 9 to 12 without the interven- 
ing secondary ones, divaricate, relatively faint especially on 
the nether side, reticulations obsolete. Inflorescence termi- 
nal, exceeded even by the ‘strict petioles of the leaves, 
usually solitary; peduncle stout, 1.75 cm long, subterete or 
compressed, subtended at the base by chartaceous and gla- 
brate bracts; branches numerous, umbellately scattered, 3 to 
4 cm long, compressed, green, pulverulent, rebranched from 
below the middle; ultimate branchlets usually 3-clustered, the 
terminal one shorter, subtended by short acute bracts, an- 
