2640 i LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY -> [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
spreading, crooked, not numerously rebranched; twigs ashy 
gray and very rigid; wood fairly heavy and hard, whitish, 
odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, greenish brown blotched, 
without latex. Leaves alternatingly scattered along the branch- 
lets, rigidly coriaceous, horizontal, the obtuse apex recurved, 
glabrous, deeper green on the upper somewhat folded side, 
base broadly obtuse or rounded and frequently inequilateral, 
margins entire but rugose, oblong or subelliptic, curing dull 
brown on both sides, the larger ones 2 dm long by 9 cm 
wide at the middle; midrib prominent beneath, the larger 
basal portion turning black when dry, also slightly raised 
on the upper side; lateral nerves 5 to 7 on each side of 
the midrib, much ascendingly curved, similarly prominent 
beneath and evident on the upper side, reticulations rather 
numerous and more evident beneath; petiole 1 cm long, 
very thick and ashy gray, deeply caniculate on the upper 
side. Flowers not seen. Fruits mainly in small clusters 
from the larger branches though occasionally single from the 
- leaf axils, pendant, globose, 4 cm in diameter, hard and 
very dark green, when fully mature soft and incarnatus 
especially the meat, apex usually provided with 2 disk-like 
sessile stigmas; pedicel glabrous, stout, recurved, 1.5 cm 
long, at the base bearing a rim-like vestige of the perianth, 
few to several celled but usually with 2 stony seeds only. 
Type specimen number 13265, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 
1912. 
Collected on a forested well drained ridge of compact 
red soil at 1000 feet elevation. Quite common and frutif- 
erous, occasionally the ripe red fruits cover the ground 
under the trees. The Manobo name is ''Malagsak."' 
Critically distinguished from Cyclostemon megacarpa Merr. 
in having thinner and less shining leaves with broader 
bases and whose reticulations are more prominent especial- 
ly beneath. 
pi : piam mindanaense Elm. n. sp. 
- Upright shrub or tree-like; stem 7 cm thick, 4 m high, | 
— from Bas Saa or from above it; wood white 
