2596 LEAFLETS oF PurLIPPINE Botany [Vor. VII, Art. 114 
"Pangalamag' in the Manobo dialect. 
SI Ellipanthus burebidensis Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub 2 m high; bark smooth, brown and gray mot- 
tled; wood dingy white, tasteless, with a faint unpleasant 
odor, moderately hard; branches not numerous, rather slend- 
er and widely spreading, the young portion densely fulvus. 
Leaves descending, coriaceous, dark green and glabrous on 
the upper surface, flat or only the sharply acuminate apex 
recurved, much lighter green and short pubescent beneath, 
base obtuse or rounded, entire, oblong, 1 to 2 dm long, 6 
to 8 cm wide at the middle, appearing sordid brown when 
dry especially beneath; midrib stoutly raised on the nether 
surface, olivaceus pulverulent along the upper shallowly im- 
pressed side, ultimately glabrous, lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, 
oblique, bold toward the base, coarsely branched toward 
their ends which are usually united,  reticulations coarse; 
petiole short fulvus pubescent, 1 cm long, thickened at the 
ends, ultimately glabrate. Infrutescence axillary and termi- 
nal, erect; stalk 1 to 2 em long, green and olivaceus pu- 
bescent, occasionally very short branched; fruits few clustered, 
yellowish green, velvety or densely covered with soft fulvus 
hairs, obovoidly ellipsoid or slightly flattened, apex truncate, 
the basal 5 mm stipitately constricted, narrowest along the 
suture, 2 cm long without the basal constriction, 1.25 cm 
thick, broadly rounded opposite the suture; seed solitary, 
shining, nearly black. : 
Type specimen number 11941, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, October, 1909. 
Found upon a dry forested ridge near the summit of 
mount Burebid at 3500 feet elevation. The vernacular Bago- 
bo name is “Dangalis.?” 
This genus represents in our archipelago several very crit- 
ical species, hardly recognizable by vegetative or fruiting or 
flowering material alone. 
11 Ellipanthus vidalii £lm. n. sp. 
. Small shrub-like tree; stem 1.5 dm thick, 5 m high, 
branched from the middle; wood whitish, moderately soft, 
