2652 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. VII, Ary. 114 
FLACOURTIACEAE 
ŞI Casearia agusanense Elm. n. sp. 
Tree-like shrub or a stunted tree; stem at least 1 dm 
thick, about 6 m high, branched from below the middle; 
wood moderately hard and covered with smoothish mottled 
bark; limbs divaricate, rebranched, the slender ultimate ones 
puberulent. Leaves ample, alternatingly scattered along the 
branchlets, submembranous, paler green beneath, flat or only 
the acute to subacuminate apical point recurved, glabrous 
above except the grooved midrib which is puberulent, be- 
neath soft pubescent especially along the midrib and nerves, 
base obtuse or truncately rounded, occasionally a trifle in- 
equilateral, elliptically oblong, the average blades 13 cm long 
by 6 em wide at the widest portion, entire around the base, 
otherwise crenately toothed or rather serrate, drying unequal- 
ly brown on its 2 sides; petiole 0.5 to 1 cm long, pu- 
berulent at least when young, caniculate above; midrib raised 
beneath, sunken above; lateral nerves 7 to 9 pairs, ascending- 
ly curved, also prominent, the 2 basal ones oblique and less 
prominent, tips anastomosing, cross bars and reticulations 
minute. Flowers not seen. Fruits mostly axillary, solitary 
or few clustered, upon 1 em long or less and glabrous pedi- 
cels, 2.5 cm long when mature, 1.5 cm thick, elliptical- 
ly oblong, smooth, shining, light yellow, 6-ridged in the dry 
state, subtended by the 5 persistent reflexed and glabrous 
calyx segments, 3-celled, several or more seeded; seeds gray- 
ish white when dry, smooth, 3 to 4 mm across, more or 
less angular and irregular in shape. 
Type specimen number 13650, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 
ember, 1912. 
Collected in stony ground of wooded banks along the 
Catangan creek at about 500 feet above sea level. 
Although ours is in fruit only and the type of Casearia 
polyantha Merr. in flower, our leaves are not glabrous beneath 
. and which have fewer nerves and shorter petioles. 
