Marca 27, 1915] Two Honprep Twenty Six New Specrrs—I 2683 
green, solitary or 2 to 3-clustered, usually unbranched; ped- 
icels 1 to 1.5 em long, opposite, divaricate, similar in color 
and vestiture, with a callous enlarged ring at the distal end; 
fruit marble-like, much wrinkled in the dry state, 2 to 2.5 
cm in diameter, glaucous green, with a single large seed. 
Type specimen number 14311, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- : 
ember, 1919. | 
Collected in more or less stony humus covered ground in 
a deep wooded depression at 8500 feet altitude between 
Duros and Cawilanan peaks. The Manobos call it ‘‘Bitaog.’’ 
Bureau of Forestry number 12620 or the type of Calophyllum 
racemosum Merr. has not the bright yellow twigs and lacks 
^ other minor characters. 
p? Calophyllum lancifolia Elm. n. sp. 
A slender upright tree; stem 1.5 dm thick, 10 m high, 
with its main branches arising from the middle; wood not 
hard, whitish, slightly bitter to taste, the heartwood avel- 
laneus; bark yellowish, lenticelled, the middle portion red- 
dish, with some latex; branchlets lax and numerous, divar- 
icate or the ultimate ones drooping, green and glabrous | 
except the cinnamon brown pubescence on the terminal 
young portion, turning brown when dry. Leaves opposite, 
well scattered along the branchlets, more shining and darker 
green on the upper side, horizontal, subcoriaceous, lanceolate, 
oecasionally subfaleate and inequilateral, curing grayish brown 
on both sides, glabrous, slenderly tapering toward the acumi- 
nate apex, slenderly cuneate toward the base, entire margins 
subinvolute in the cured leaves, their sides strongly rugose, 
varying in size from 14 em long by 2.5 em wide a trifle 
below the middle to 5 em long by 7 mm wide, the older 
and larger ones usually toward the base of the branchlets; 
midrib yellow when fresh, straw brown when dry, prom- 
inent beneath and in the early state covered with furfuraceous 
seale-like deciduous hairs; lateral nerves very numerous and 
contiguous; petiole 5 to 15 mm long, fuligineus, ultimately 
glabrous, the upper lateral edges curved over and forming 
a tube; bud bract densely fuligineus, 5 to 7 mm long, 
