2684 — LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY —— [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
acuminately pointed. Inflorescence creamy white even in the 
bud state, in axillary fascicles, 1.5 to 3 cm long, glabrate; 
stalks usually 3, curing blackish brown, the lateral ones 
unbranched, the middle or larger one branched from the 
middle; pedicel of mature flowers glabrous, more or less 
angular, strict, slender, 9 to 12 mm long; buds 3 in a 
cluster, subtended by bracts; bracts coriaceous, 4 to 5 mm 
long by 3 mm wide, brown when dry, tawny pubescent 
or puberulent on the outside, broadly elliptic, deep spoon 
Shaped, caducous; petals 4, of 2 oppositely inserted pairs, 
4 to 6 mm long, oblong, widely spreading and twisting in 
anthesis, creamy white when fresh, glabrous, entire edges 
more or less rolled upon the ventral surface, rounded or 
subtruncate at the apex, the outer pair usually a trifle 
smaller, somewhat cuneate at the base, minutely nerved; 
stamens many, snugly curving around the ovary and inserted 
at its base; filaments unequal in length, dark reddish brown 
when dry, glabrous, filiform, contiguous at the base, falling 
with the ovary, 2 mm long or less; anthers linear, basifixed, 
nearly as long as the filaments, apex blunt; ovary light 
brown, also glabrous, ovoidly ellipsoid, 2 mm long; style 
as long as the ovary, glabrous; stigma lighter brown when 
dry, minutely 3-lobulate. Infrutescence lengthening up to 5 
em, the spikes green though brown on the dry material; 
fruit marble-like, ater colored, subpendant from the distally 
enlarged pedicels, nearly 2 cm in diameter. 
Type specimen numbers 13266 in flower and 13989 in 
fruit, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province 
of Agusan, Mindanao, July and October respectively, 1912. 
The bud or flowering material was discovered on a dry 
forested ridge at 1000 feet altitude and was named “Bitaog”” 
by the Manobos. The other or fruiting specimens were col- 
lected at twice the altitude and was called ''Bitaogan" by 
the same natives. 
ot Calophyllum mindanaense Elm. n. sp. 
Large forest tree; trunk 15 to 20 m high, 6 to 9 dm 
thick, straight, its main branches arising from near the 
middle; branches spreading, freely rebranched ultimately, 
