2580 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Voz. VH, Arr. 114 
rous; wood soft and flexible, whitish toward the center, with- — 
out odor or taste; old bark rugose and grayish brown, | 
smooth and reddish brown on the branches. Leaves coria- 
ceous, glabrous, lucid on both sides, drying unequally black- 
ish brown on both sides, shallowly conduplicate, more yel- 
lowish green beneath, the obtuse to acute apex recurved, 
the rounded or broadly obtuse base entire, otherwise serrately 
apiculate, the edges slightly involute in the dry state, el- 
liptie or oblongish, exceedingly variable in size, the larger 
blades 8 cm long by 4.5 em wide, alternatingly scattered 
along all branchlets; midrib conspicuous from beneath, plane 
above; lateral nerves 2 to 4 pairs, also glabrous, strongly 
ascendingly curved, tips coarsely anastomosing, reticulations 
very coarse and less conspicuous; petiole less than 1 cm 
long, shallowly grooved along the upper flattened surface. 
Inflorescence greenish, odorless, the petals creamy white, 
style and calyx greenish, ovary rim yellow, anthers also 
cremens. Infrutescence chiefly terminal or from the upper- 
most leaf axils, varying from a few to 10 cm long, only 
sparsely paniculately branched from the middle, the lower 
branches subtended by persistent foliaceous bracts and very 
sparingly rebranched; fruits mostly in small groups at the 
ends of the main branchlets; pedicels less than 1 cm long, 
yellow, angularly obovoid, the 3 persistent carpels strongly 
reflexed after dehiscence, 2 cm long, mucronate at the apex, 
the basal portion marked by the rim; seeds surrounded by 
an orange red mealy coat. 
Type specimen number 11411, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Discovered in dense moss laden forests at 6500 feet al- 
titude of the mountain whose name in bears. The Bagobos 
call it “Mangauwat.” 
Not Celastrus paniculatus Willd. or Celastrus polybotrys Turcz. 
nor Celastrus championi Benth., although nearest related to 
the last, 
14 Evonymus marivelensis Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub, 3 to 4 m high; twigs slender, terete, smooth, 
glabrous. Leaves opposite, scattered, horizontally spreading, 
