362 MERRILL. 



obsolete; petioles very stout, about 5 iiiin long. Male flowers in axillary, 

 4- to G-tlowered fascicles, sessile or shortly pedicellate, 5-merous, greenish- 

 white. Outer two sepals suborbicuhir, rounded, about 2 mm in diameter, 

 the inner three subreniform, about IJ mm long and 4 mm wide. Petals 

 5, elliptical to orbicular-elliptical, rounded, about 8 mm long, 6 to 7 mm 

 wide. Filaments connate into five erect, pedicellate bodies, the pedicels 

 flattened, 4 to 5 mm long, 1 mm wide, each bearing at the top from 3 to 

 () anthers, the free filaments about 1 mm long. Kudimentary ovary none, 

 the torus spongy. Fruit depressed-globose, when diT strongly wrinkled, 

 4.5 cm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mauban, Fuf. liitr. lOJS'f Curran, ]\Iarch, 1908; 

 Infanta, Tinauan River, Whitford 757, September, 1904:: Province of Caniarines, 

 Daet, For. Bur. 107 SI Curran, July, 1908. 



A very characteristic species, readily recognizable by its elliptical or subor- 

 bicular, firmly coriaceous leaves which are broad and rounded at both ends, 

 nearlj' obsolete nerves, short stout petioles, sessile fasciculate flowers and sub- 

 globose fruit. A tree, the trunk 35 cm in diameter, with yellow latex, growing 

 in thickets along the seashore. T., Gatasan, Dancalan. 



3. Garcinia dulcis (Roxb.) Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma 1 (1877) 92; Pierre 

 Fl. Forest. Cochincli. Enum. IV; Vesque in DC. Monog. Phan. 8 (1893) 312; 

 King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 59= (1890) 169. 



Xanthochymus dulcis Roxb. PI. Coromandel 3 (1819) t. 270; Wight Icon. 

 t. 192. 



Garcinia ovalifolia Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 53, non Hook. f. 



Luzon, Province of Ilocos Sur, For. Bur. 7103 Klemme: Province of Zambales, 

 Subic, Merrill 207 Jf: Province of Bataan, For. Bur. G521 Curran: Province of 

 Rizal, Tanay, Bur. Sci. 3326 liamos, Bosoboso, For. Bur. J/.'i2, 3295 Ahern's 

 collector: Province of Caniarines Sur, Pasacao, Ahem 195. Masbate, For. Bur. 

 997 Clark. Negros, For. Bur. 5578 Everett; For. Bur. 522Ji Danao. Palawan, 

 Bur. Sci. 618 Foxicorthy; For. Bur. 7Ji28 Manalo; For. Bur. 3792 Curran. Minda- 

 nao, District of Zamboanga, For. Bur. 9.'/57, 9//67, 9^71 Whitford d Hutchinson. 



A species widely distributed in the Philippines, and apparently common. The 

 type was from the Moluccas, introduced into the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, and 

 described by Rf)xburgh from living specimens. The Philippine material agrees 

 closely with the various descriptions and figures of the species, and exactly 

 matches numerous Specimens in our herbarium from the Buitenzorg Gardens, so 

 that I have no hesitation in recording the species from the Philippines. It 

 extends from Perak to the Malay Archipelago. T., Gatasan, Baniti; II., Buneg. 

 Some specimens bear also the names •V'allavfi (i)inr and Bilucno. which however 

 properly belong to other species. 



4. Garcinia moselleyana Pierre Kl. Forest. Cochincli. Kiiuni. X: Vesque in 

 DC. -Monog. Pliaii. 8 (1893) 326. 



'I'he type of this species was collected by iMr. Moseley of the Challenger 

 Expedition, on the small islet Malamaui close to the north coast of Basilan, and 

 opposite Isabela de Basilan. 1 haA'e seen the type in Herb. Kcw, but it is 

 rather fragmentary, and seems to l)e closely mittched by DcVorc <£• Hoover 8Ji, 

 from the Jsland of iJasilaii. Ebiur 7187. from Palo, Leyte. may be the same, 

 iiltlioiiLih of tilis I h:\\(' only leaf spccinieiis. 



5. Garcinia luzoniensis s|i. nov. S Manyostami. 



.\rb()i- usipic ii<l 10 111 alta : raiiiis (lavidis, teretibus. ramulis nigrican- 



