2566 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY IX0L. VIE, ART. 114 
Gathered from a forested ridge of Giwantanan knoll in 
compact red soil at 1250 feet altitude.  ''Binsauan"' is the 
Manobo name. | 
Although this material is in flower only and Canarium 
subvelutinum Elm. in fruit, there are a number of minor 
details distinguishing one from the other. It also is closely 
related to Canarium reticulatum Merr. 
¡Ó Canarium nervosum Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. II, 428, 1908. 
Spikes few, arising from the terminal portion of the 
twigs, ascending, green even to the calyx, varying from 1 to 
2 dm long, flower bearing from near the base, the larger in- 
florescences very short branched at the base; rachis glabrous, 
blackish brown when dry, only the young tips puberulent; flo- 
wers usually clustered; pedicels thick, likewise finely pu- 
bescent, unequal in length but averaging 3 mm long, subtended E 
by braet vestiges; calyx green, broadly cup shaped, 5 mm > 
across, thick, puberulent on the outside, 3.5 mm high, very 
bluntly 8-toothed; corolla bud almost 1 cm long, flesh color ex- 
cept the yellowish tip, obscurely triangular, a little over one | 
half as thick below the middle, yellowish gray puberulent on the 
exterior except at the base, blunt at the apex; the 3 segments 
valvate in the bud, ultimately separating, thickly coriaceous, 
oblong; stamens about 6, included; filaments stramineus, 9 
mm long, inserted upon the basal portion of the corolla, linear, 
fleshy, compressed, strigose especially in the middle region; 
anther sulphureus, 3 mm long, broadly rounded at the basifix- 
ed base, bluntly obtuse at the apex, oblong though a trifle wider 
below the middle, introrse and sublaterally dehiscent; ovary 
disk rather large, bristly hairy, miniatus in color. 
Represented by number 12941, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
Originally collected in Leyte, few years latter in southern 
Negros and only recently the first flowering specimens were 
collected on the island of Palawan. 
,, Canarium subvelutinum Elm. n. sp. 
Upright small tree; stem 2 to 3 dm thick, terete, nearly dd 
straight, 10 m high, chiefly branched toward the top; wood | 
