2624 LEARLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Anr. 114 
axils of the scars, pendant, flatly globose, 2 em across, 
glabrous, smooth and shining, luteus, the immature ones 
ovoid and inueronately pointed, upon a short thick recurv- 
ed usually persistent pedicel, subtended by a flattened glaucous 
green calyx plate 1.25 cm across; this plate in the younger 
state was short hairy on the outside and obscurely 4-lobulate. 
Type specimen number 14203, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 
ober, 1912. 
On a forested ridge at 5000 feet altitude along the 
trail between Cawilanan peak and lake Danao. Rare! Sev- 
eral of the common Philippine species of Diospyros are called 
“Camagon” throughout the islands and this alpine species 
the Manobos also called by the same name. 
A very close match of the type of Diospyros brideliaefolia 
Elm. which is in young flower only, yet there are indications 
of specific differences. The late C. B. Robinson concurred with 
me in this opinion. 
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Diospyros urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 
Small or medium sized tree; stem 3 dm thick, 10 m 
high, terete but crooked, crookedly branched from above the 
middle; wood rather soft, light in weight, white or with a 
faint yellow tinge, odorless and without taste; bark blackish 
brown, hypodermis testaceus, inner side yellowish white, sur- 
face rough; branches minutely lenticelled, crookedly rebranch- 
ed and horizontally spreading; twigs lax, glabrate, black- 
ish brown when dry. Leaves similarly spreading, submem- 
branous, much paler green on thé puberulent under side, 
glabrous above, curing brown on both sides, exceedingly 
variable in size, alternate, gradually tapering to the acuminate 
recurved and usually subfalcate tips, obtuse or obtusely 
rounded at the base, the larger ones 2.5 dm long by 8 cm 
across the middle, usually smaller and the smallest ones 
only 8 by 7 cm in size, oblong; midrib prominent and puberu- 
lent beneath, caniculate above; lateral nerves 8 to 13 pairs in 
the average ones, ascendingly curved especially toward their 
ends, also prominent and puberulent beneath, tips interarch- 
ing or more commonly reticulately united, cross bars or 
