2626 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VH, Arr. 114 
in & fertile densely forested flat at 500 feet above the sea; 
the other number with young fruits was found in a very 
damp flat along the Catangan creek at 1250 re altitude. 
The former was called '“Malino»g””, the latter '"'Camagon" 
by the same Manobos. 
Related to Diospyros everettii Merr. and to Diospyros 
fasciculiflora Merr. Leaves of our proposed new species distinct 
from the first named, the fruits differing from the last. 
£1 Diospyros viridifolia Elm. n. sp. 
Small upright tree; stem 3 dm thick, 12 m high, crook- 
ed, subterete and wadded toward the base, chiefly branched 
at the top; wood quite hard, white and only slightly tinged 
with yellow throughout, odorless and tasteless; bark dark 
i brown or nearly black, checked, yellowish brown except the 
surface, that portion on the branches smooth yet with the 
dark grayish brown color; twigs rigid, numerous, ascending 
or horizontal, glabrous, drying nearly black. Leaves alterna- 
tingly scattered, numerous, similarly spreading, conduplicate, 
the acute to acuminate apex recurved, deep green but slight- 
ly paler beneath, remaining green on both sides in the dry 
state, lucid above, glabrous, oblong, base broadly obtuse or 
subrounded, variable in size, submembranous, entire, the 
larger ones 15 em long and one third as wide across the 
middle; midrib prominent beneath, deeply grooved above, 
brown when dry; lateral nerves 7 to 11 pairs and with 
secondary ones between, sublivaricate, nearly straight or as- 
cendingly curved toward their ends, terminating into coarse 
reticulations, other reticulations also prominent from both 
sides; petiole 1 em long or more or less, reddish brown in 
the dry specimens, flattened along the upper side, glabrous. 
Fruits mainly axillary, divaricate or descending, hard, dark 
green, solitary or more frequently few clustered from the 
ends of the stout ligneous 5 to 8 mm long stalks, ovoidly 
globose, 2.5 em long, normally 4-celled and 4-seeded; calyx 
squarrose, also dark green and glabrous, 1.25 cm across, 
the sides of the 4 lobes much curved upon the under side 
but not aria thickened; pedicel recurved, very short 
and thick. 
