2636 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Arr. 114 
pubescent perianth vestige. 
Type specimen number 13971, A. D. E. Eimer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 
ober, 1912. 
In well drained more or less stony and humus cover- 
ed soil of a steep wind swept forested slope near the summit 
of Duros peak at 3750 feet altitude. ''Malaihan" or ''Ma- 
laigan" in Manobo. 
1 Aporosa agusanense Elm. n. sp. 
A small and very slender tree; stem 8 cm thick, 7 m 
high, branched toward the top; wood rather soft, odorless 
and tasteless, dingy or yellowish white, closely grained; branches 
sparingly rebranched, the slender ultimate ones green and 
glabrous; bark smoothish, green and brown mottled. Leaves 
alternate along the branches, submembranous, descending, a 
trifle paler beneath, the dry ones remaining green on both 
sides, glabrous, ovately elliptic or elliptically elongated, the 
abruptly acute apex recurved, base broadly rounded, entire, 
2 dm long without the petioles, 9 cm wide at or a trifle 
below the middle; midrib ‘glabrous and stramineus in color, 
tips of the upper ones interarching, cross bars quite evi- 
dent beneath; petiole 1.5 em long, glabrous, green, thickened 
at both ends; stipule not seen. Flowers not known. Fruits 
in small clusters along the branchlets, subpendant, globose, 
1.5 cm in diameter, melleus, glabrous, 6-ridged in the dry 
state, the thick carpels opening either from the base or from 
the apex, thereby leaving the bright subpersistent seeds ex- 
posed, 3-celled and 3-seeded; pedicels dark green, glabrate, 
5 to 8 mm long, provided with minute bracts especially 
toward the distal end, the small perianth segments also per- 
sistent; seed nearly ruber red, its meat snow white, the 
inside or cotyledon portion green. 
Type specimen number 13415, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 
ust, 1912. 
Gathered in stony ground on "Hh top of a wooded hil- 
lock at 500 feet altitude. "Haway" is the Manobo name. 
Allied to Aporosa similis Merr. from Negros but our 
