2330 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BorANY (Vor. VIT, Arr. 110! 
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gularly compressed, becoming nearly glabrous, articulate and 
bibracteate below the middle; flowers odorless, aurantiacus, 
forming radially spreading clusters 5 to 8 mm across; pe- 
dicels several, subreflexed, 2 to 3 mm long, relatively thick, 
glabrous, green in the fresh state, subtended by vestiges of 
involucral bracts; ovary barrel shaped, 1.5 mm long and 
nearly as thick across the middle, terminated by a truncate 
rim; corolla erect, aurantiacus, valvate in the blunt bud state, 
glabrous; petals 3, submembranous, becoming easily detached, 
1.75 mm long, over 1 mm wide, apex obtusely rounded, 
separating clear to the base, with a faint midrib; stamens 
3, alternating with the corolla segments; filaments dark brown 
when dry, glabrous, equalling the petals, fleshy, pointed at 
the distal end; anther much lighter brown, inflexed, introrse, 
laterally dehiscent, auriculate at base, the upper end truncately 
rounded, broadly oblong, 1 mm long, dorsifixed; ovary crown 
with a short thick slightly tapering point. Fruit yellowish at first 
but soon turning atropurpureus on the shorter stalks, nearly ` 
6 mm long by 4 mm wide, when dry somewhat compressed 
and grooved on the sides, shining smooth, terminated by the 
short blunt style vestige; seeds 2, achene-like, 4.5 mm, long by 
2.5 mm wide, the ventral edge nearly straight, the back curved 
and obscurely ridged, the sides very distinctly roughened. 
Type specimen number 13689, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 
ember, 1912. 
Inhabiting a wind swept wooded ridge at 5500 feet al- 
titude of mount Urdaneta, in stony moss covered soil. The 
Manobo vernacular name is ‘‘Bolawanon.’’ 
Boerlagiodendron agusanense Elm. n. sp. 
An erect unbranched undershrub; stem crooked, subterete, 
3 or more m high, 2.5 to 3 cm thick; wood dingy white, 
soft, with a large whiter colored pith, odorless, slightly 
bitter; bark smooth, yellowish green, the hypodermis deep ` 
green, yellowish on the inner surface. Leaves alternatingly 
scattered toward the top, chiefly horizontal, nearly flat, coria- 
ceous, much deeper green above, curing unequally dull greenish 
brown, the lower ones much larger than the upper ones; petiole 
