2682 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [ VoL. VIT, ArT. 114 
Protecting glume always shorter than the internode or 
articulations, symmetric and apex not membranously mar- 
gined nor with a constricted apex, not at all striate nor 
ridged or prominently punctate to pectinately ciliate and at 
the base transversely constricted not rugulose.  Internodal 
rachis or articulations terete except the flowering notch, 
straight, conspicuously longitudinally striate and dark or dull 
brown when dry. 
GUTTIFERAE 
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/ Calophyllum flavo-cortica Elm. n. sp. 
A middle sized tree; stem 6 dm thick, 12 m high, 
subterete, crooked, chiefly branched toward the top; wood 
moderately herd or soft, white on the outside, reddish tinged 
or nearly roseus toward the center, odorless and quite taste- 
less; bark nearly 2 em thick, scaling in thin yellowish 
plates, otherwise testaceus, with a yellowish green juice; main 
branches widely spreading and crookedly rebranched; twigs 
descending and with suberect tips, | cm thick, smaller and 
wrinkled on the dry specimens, in the early state somewhat 
covered with fine furfuraceous scales which upon falling leav- 
ing the flavus yellow bark exposed. Leaves opposite, hori- 
zontal or descending, coriaceous, conduplicate, much paler or 
yellowish green beneath, the short and abrupt tips recurv- 
ed, base obtuse or more tapering than at the rounded api- 
cal portion, oblong or elliptically so, entire margins reflex- 
.ed or involute in the dry leaves, marginal sides irregularly 
wavy especially toward the apex, the average ones 2.5 dm 
long by 8.5 em wide at the middle, glabrous, lighter brown 
beneath when dry; petiole 1.25 em long, 4 to 5 mm wide 
across the flattened upper side, glabrous though pulverulous, 
blackish on the dry specimens; midrib in the fresh state 
yellow beneath, stout and brown to blackish beneath, similarly 
colored above and grooved; lateral nerves divaricate, parallel, 
straight, more evident beneath, very numerous and close 
together; bud bract 2.5 cm long, acuminately pointed from 
the base, nearly maroon brown when dry. Flowers not seen. 
Infrutescence 3 to 15 cm long; spikes stout, glabrous, pale 
