2690 LEAFLETS Or PAILIPPINE Borany [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
brous on the upper surface, much paler green and puberu- 
lent beneath, the 2 sides curing very unequal in color, 
the entire margins subinvolute in the dry state, obtusely 
rounded at the base, oblong.to subelliptic, occasionally ovately 
or even obovately oblong, the average lamina are 16 cm long 
by 6.5 em across the widest portion; midrib prominent 
and subolivaceus tomentose beneath, minutely grooved above; 
lateral nerves strict, ascending, 5 to 7 on each side, similar 
in vestiture though less prominent, usually with 2 pairs 
arising from near the base, tips obscure and more or less 
united, cross reticulations few and very faint; petiole 1 cm 
long at least, subolivaceus tomeutose, impressed along the 
upper side.  Infrutescenee along the branchlets, in small 
divaricate clusters; stalks dark green, yellowish gray when 
dry, puberulent, flexible, 2 to 3 em long, few branched 
from below the middle; pedicel ranging from 1 to 5 mm 
long, recurved; fruit elongated, ellipsoid, 1.25 to 2 cm long, 
7.5 mm thick at the middle, hard, salmon colored, smooth 
though obscurely ridged when dry, bearing a large terminal 
stigma upon a short and usually curved neck, 1-seeded, 
subtended by the calyx vestige. 
Type specimen number, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabadbaran 
(Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 
1912. 
Diseovered in wet gravelly ground near the water’s 
edge of a streamlet in solidly shaded forests at 750 feet 
above ocean level. The native or Manobo name is ‘‘Lam- 
buan.?? 
P) 
Stemonurus apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
A middle sized tree; trunk 15 to 20 m high, 4.5 dm 
thick, straight and round; branches chiefly toward the top, 
rather congested and forming a somewhat elongated crown; 
twigs numerous, quite lax and slender, at first pulverulent, 
soon glabrate; wood soft, sappy white, stringy, odorless and 
 tasteless, Leaves coriaceous, light green, somewhat paler be- 
neath, conduplieate on the upper side, smooth and glabrous 
on both sides when old, recurved toward the acute point, 
base roundly obtuse, the entire margins minutely involute 
