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brane or caruncle. 
Type specimen number 11088, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Collected in good damp soil upon a wooded bank of a 
streamlet at 1500 feet altitude. The Bagobos know it as 
" Baringorus." 
Not Dichapetalum and in general aspeets it appears simi- 
lar to some species of Euphorbiaceae. 
$3 Osmelia subrotundifolia Elm. n. sp. 
Àn erect and small tree; stem 1.5 dm thick, terete, 8 m 
high, branched from below the middle; wood quite hard 
&nd heavy, odorless and without taste, yellowish through- 
out; bark smooth, grayish, sappy white on the inner surface; 
main branches horizontal, laxly rebranched, the ultimate ones 
slender and terete, light olivaceus pubescent or merely puber- 
ulent at the young ends. Leaves alternate, well scattered 
along the branchlets, descending, submembranous, much paler 
beneath, nearly flat, very unequally greenish on the 2 sides 
in the dry state, entire, base obtusely rounded or truncately 
rounded, apex rounded or more frequently subtruncately 
rounded and terminated by a narrow rather sharp point 5 
to 8 mm in length, elliptic or rotund, 10 to 15 cm long 
without the petiole, 5 to 8 cm wide at the middle or a 
trifle below it, glabrous except the veins beneath; petiole 
6 mm long or the longest ones twice that length, subterete, 
olivaceus short pubescent, ultimately glabrate; midrib con- 
spicuous beneath, similar in  vestiture except the glabrous 
and slightly impressed upper side; lateral nerves 6 to 9 pairs, 
ascendingly curved, conspicuous and puberulent beneath, 2 
pairs arising from near the base, the basal one of which 
is the smallest pair, only the very tips coarsely inter- 
arching, cross bars minute yet quite evident from beneath. 
Spikes axillary or lateral, pendant, solitary, flexible, from 
1 to 4 dm long, very slender, only occasionally branched, 
fruit bearing from beluw the middle, puberulent, the peduncle 
portion occasionally short bracteated; capsule alternatingly 
scattered, upon 3 to 5 similarly pubescent and similarly 
colored pedicels, subpendant, the larger ones 1.5 cm long, 
