Marca 27, 1915] Two Hounprep Twenty Six New Specres—I 2685 
the twigs glabrous and usually angular in the dry state; 
bark smooth, yellowish, with latex; wood hard, burly, the 
outer one half whitish, the central portion brownish red, 
without odor or taste. Leaves opposite or subopposite, scat- 
tered, coriaceous, glabrous, curing subavellaneus, spreading 
or descending, dark green on the shallow conduplicate up- 
per surface, yellowish green beneath, the entire margins 
subinvolute, acute at the apex, acute or subcuneate at the 
base, narrowly oblong, the larger blades 8 cm long, 3 cm 
wide at the middle; midrib bold beneath, caniculate on the. 
upper side, glabrous; lateral nerves indefinite, rather clear- 
ly marked on both surfaces, divaricate; petiole also gla- 
brous, 1 cm long, prominently grooved on the upper side; 
bud bract acuminate, nearly 1 cm long, obscurely angular, 
reddish brown puberulent. Inflorescence terminal, suberect, 
sparsely paniculately branched, less than 1 dm long, gla- 
brous at least when old; flowers fragrant, deciduous, op- 
positely scattered; pedicels 1.25 cm long, rather slender; 
sepals 4, yellowish white, 1 cm long, scarcely wider than 
5 mm below the middle, ovately oblong or subelliptic, 
rather sharply pointed, the sides toward the apex rolled 
in upou the upper surface, base quite broad, numerously 
veined; buds globose, 5 to 7.5 mm in diameter; petals 
cremeus, also glabrous, equal in number, similar in vena- 
tion, obovately oblong, occasional one or two are much 
smaller and oblanceolate, thinner than the sepals, usually 
a trifle longer than the calyx; stamens very numerous, 
nearly free or only at the base united into groups below 
the ovary; filaments whitish, interlaced, filiform, glabrous, 
4 to 6 mm long; anthers deep yellow, oblong, 1.5 mm 
long, attached to the emarginate base, 0.78 mm wide; 
ovary globose, green, 3.5 mm in diameter, bearing at the 
apex a mucronate point composed of the short whitish style 
and stigma; fruits globose, olive green, 2 cm thick. 
Type specimen numbers 10597* for flower and 11749 
for fruit, A. D. &. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of 
Davao, Mindanao, May and September respectively, 1909. 
Collected in dense humid forests at 3750 feet elevation. 
The flowering material along the trail leading to mount Calelan, 
the fruiting and less typical specimens from the south of the 
