2642 — LEAFLETS OF PHiLIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
fruit, 4. D. E. Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province 
of Agusan, Mindanao, August, 1912. 
Both numbers were collected on a dry wooded hillock 
500 feet high or above the sea level. To the flowering speci- 
men the Manobos gave "Bodung" as its vernacular name 
and the other was called “Magaloput.?”” 
Not Gelonium meliocarpum Elm. nor Gelonium philippi- 
nense Pax and Hoffm. 
7 © Glochidion mindanaense Elm. n. sp. 
A slender erect tree, with a 9 m high and 1.5 dm 
thick stem; bark smooth, yellowish gray; wood hard and 
heavy throughout, reddish brown especially toward the center, 
only the thin sapwood whitish, without odor or taste; main 
branches arising from the middle, erect; secondary ones mostly 
toward the ends of the main branches, only sparingly re- 
branched, slender, divaricate, the green tips glabrous, some- 
what striate in the dry state. Leaves alternatingly scattered 
along the branchlets, glabrous, chartaceous, slightly recurved, 
darker green above, curing dark or dull brown, yellowish 
when young, gradually tapering toward the acute or sub- 
acuminate apex, base rounded or obtusely rounded and ap- 
pearing inequilateral, 17.5 cm long and nearly 6 em wide, 
oblong, the lower blades much smaller and ovately oblong 
in shape, margins entire, midrib pronounced beneath, nearly 
black when dry, glabrous; lateral nerves ascendingly curved, 
5 to 8 pairs, their tips anastomosing, articulations relative- 
ly prominent beneath, all dark brown and glabrous; petiole 
black, also glabrous, less than 5 mm in length. Flowers 
glomerated in the leaf axils, upon short stellately branched 
and recurved more or less bracteate tubercles which are very 
short but which in the fruiting stage become conspicuously 
elongated; pistillate flowers greenish and subsessile, the stami- 
nate ones yellow and pedicelled; calyx of the staminate flowers 
‘campanulate, upon slender 5 to 8 mm long glabrous pedicels; 
sepals elliptic to oblong, glabrous, 2.5 mm long, 1.5 mm 
wide across the base, the inner 3 alternating with the 
outer series and a trifle smaller, all imbricate; stamens in a 
thick central. : column, 1.25 mm long, the anther sacs pale 
