2674 LEAFLETS oF PRILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Arr. 314 
with gravelly soil at 1000 feet altitude. The local Visayan 
called it ''Bago." The poor people cook the young leaves 
and roast the mature nuts for food. 
Its larger differently shaped and colored fruit primarily 
distinguish it from Gnetum gnemon Linn. 
GONYSTYLACEAE 
Gonystylus philippinensis Elm. n. sp. 
A rather low and rigid tree; stem crooked, 4 dm thick 
at least, 7 m high, with a flat crown; branches rigid, the 
main ones divaricate, the ultimate ones comparatively short 
and suberect, the young or apical portions of the twigs 
glabrous. Leaves alternating, chiefly toward the ends of the 
branchlets, horizontally spreading, thickly coriaceous, shin- 
ing green on the upper somewhat folded side, much lighter 
green beneath, obscurely punctate, curing similarly dark 
brown on both sides, glabrous, strongly conduplicate toward 
the abruptly recurved short obtuse apex, base also obtuse 
or more commonly obtusely rounded, the entire margins 
curved upon the nether side at least in the dry state, sub- 
elliptic, the blades varying from 5 to 10 em long and 
average about 3.5 em wide across the middle or the widest 
portion; midrib sunken along the upper side, much raised 
beneath; lateral nerves quite numerous, ascending, nearly 
straight and subparallel, frequently anastomosing, their tips 
united into a submarginal line, more prominent beneath 
though quite evident from the upper side also; petiole thick, 
1.5 cm long, dark brown when dry, widely grooved along 
the upper side. Inflorescence terminal, 1 dm long, few 
paniculately branched, the larger branches horizontal or 
rather divaricate and rebranched above the middle, all the 
stalks puberulent or pubescent but when old becoming gla- 
brate, the few ultimate branches short and thick; pedicels 
few to severally clustered from the distal ends of the last 
branches, cinereous, 1.5 cm long, greenish as are also the 
inflorescent stalks; flowers very rigid, odorless, yellowish 
green, globose; calyx 7 mm long, very thick and rigid, 
hirsute on both sides, the basal one third united, the 5 
