PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX, 295 



Flowers unknown. Fruit ovoid to globose-obovoid, 5 to 6 mm 

 long, glabrous. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Sablan, Phil. PL 4.83 Fenix, November, 

 1910, on slopes along trails, locally known to the Igorots as arocong. 



A species distinguishable from the other Philippine ones by its com- 

 paratively very large leaves, entire leaflets, and in being nearly glabrous, 

 at least v^hen mature. 



ELAEOCARPACEAE. 



ELAEOCARPUS L. 



ELAEOCARPUS GRANDIFLORUS Sm. in Rees Cyclop. 12 (1802-20) no. 5; 

 Pierre in Fl. Forest. Cochinch. pi. 142; Gagnepain in Lecomte 

 Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine 1 (1910) 568. 



BUSUANGA, Bintuan, C. M. Weber 155U his, March 3, 1912, common along 

 streams in forests. 



Not previously reported from the Philippines; Burma, Indo-China, and 

 Java. 



The Busuanga specimens appear to be quite typical, at least of the 

 species as interpreted by Pierre and by Gagnepain. It agrees with 

 Gagnepain's description in all essential details, and, so far as the specimens 

 are comparable, with a Cochinchina collection by Thorel, in the Herbarium 

 of the Bureau of Science. The Philippine material is in full flower and 

 with a single nearly mature fruit, while our specimen of Thorel's collection 

 has very immature fruits. A specimen from Java, VI, C, 178 of the 

 Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg, probably typical Elaeocarpus lanceolatus 

 Blume, which is generally considered to be a synonym of E. grandiflorus Sm., 

 seems to differ from the Philippine material more than does the Cochinchina 

 material. Although the three specimens before me are not directly com- 

 parable, all being in different stages of development, they apparently 

 represent a single species. 



ELAEOCARPUS PUSTULATUS sp. nov. § Euelaeocarpus. 



Arbor, foliis utrinque sepalisque extus pustulis minutis in- 

 structis; foliis lanceolatis vel anguste ovato-lanceolatis, acumi- 

 natis, usque ad 8 cm longis, glabris, longe acuminatis; racemis 

 numerosis, e axillis defoliatis; floribus 5-meris, circiter 5 mm 

 longis. 



A tree, glabrous except the sparingly appressed-pubescent in- 

 florescence, the branches smooth, terete, the branchlets usually 

 reddish-brown. Leaves lanceolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 

 5 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, subcoriaceous, the base acute, 

 the apex slenderly acuminate, margins distantly and somewhat 

 obscurely toothed, both surfaces with numerous small pustules, 

 the lower one a little paler than the upper and with glands in 

 the axils of the lateral nerves; nerves about 6 on each side of 

 the midrib, not prominent; petioles about 7 mm long, often with 

 a pair of small lateral glands at the apex. Racemes in the axils 



