2644 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
pistillate flowers subsessile;-perianth segments 2 or 3, thick, 
obovately elliptic, pubescent especially on the outer side, 
-curved upon the ventral side, usually provided at the base 
and alternating with bracts or vestiges of the inner perianth 
segments; ovary subglobose, 1 mm thick, densely hairy; 
style also 1 mm long, columnar, less pubescent; fruit strong- 
ly compressed, nearly 4 mm wide and scarcely more than 
one half of that in length, sparsely subolivaceus pubescent, 
obscurely 6-gonous, subtended by the persistent perianth 
and terminated by the pubescent style. 
Type specimen number 11243, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Discovered in good soil among secondary forests. Named 
after the late Dr. C. B. Robinson who has done considerable 
work in this genus. 
2"Í | Clochidion subangulatum Elm. n. sp. 
A burly appearing tree; stem 6 m high, 2 dm thick; 
the branches arising from below the middle, crookedly re- 
branched toward the top, forming a rather flat crown; wood 
moderately hard, reddish toward the center, odorless and 
tasteless; bark brown, scaling in plates, latericius beneath 
the epidermis; twigs green, horizontally spreading, glabrous, 
nearly black in the dry state, somewhat flattened or angular 
and distinctly rigid. Leaves thinly coriaceous, descending, 
. eurvingly conduplicate on the upper deeper green surface, 
glabrous, lucid on both sides, alternatingly scattered along 
the twigs, the old ones 1.5 to 2 dm long and 5 to 6 cm 
wide at or a trifle below the middle, ovately oblong, apex 
rather abruptly acute, base broadly rounded, entire, curing - 
blackish brown; midvein more prominent beneath, glabrous; 
the lateral nerves 7 to 9 on each side, much ascending and 
= eurved, less prominent, cross bars and reticulations fine, 
the latter very obscure; petiole 5 mm long, glabrous. In- 
florescence axillary, apparently only pistillate; flowers grouped 
upon short thick common stalks which usually curve over 
the upper side of the twigs, in the flowering state subses- 
sile, distinctly pedicelled when in fruit; the individual stalks 
| — T bract qe: rancid uo subsessile or 
