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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1916 
The specimen on which the species was based was collected by Vidal, and 
although no number is cited by F.-Villar in the original description, it is 
Vidal 213b, which is represented by a duplicate in the Kew Herbarium. 
It is very curious that the species should have been described as a 
Calophyllum, with which genus it has little in common except that the 
venation of the leaves is somewhat suggestive of that genus. 
This species is manifestly closely allied to the preceding, but apparently 
has larger leaves. Moreover, the leaves are retuse at the apex, not coarsely 
apiculate, and are dull and pale when dry, not uniformly brown and 
shining, while the nerves are distinctly more prominent. In the first 
supplement to Index Kewensis Calophyllum vidalii is listed but the au- 
thority for the species is erroneously given as Ceron, and the place of 
publication erroneously as Vidal’s “Revision de plantas vasculares de 
Filipinas,” a work that appeared in 1886, not in 1892. The latter is the 
date of publication of Ceron’s “Catalogo de las plantas del herbario” in 
which the original description and plate appear. 
GUTTIFERAE 
GARCINIA Linnaeus 
GARCINIA M ICROPH YLLA sp. nov. § Mangostana. 
Arbor glabra, 6 ad 8 m alta, ramis teretibus, ramulis tenuibus 
obscure angulatis, internodis brevibus; foliis numerosis, con- 
fertis, oblongo-ellipticis, coriaceis, usque ad 4 cm longis, utrinque 
subaequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice breviter rostrato- 
acuminatis, margine revolutis, nervis tenuibus, numerosis ; cymis 
solitariis vel binis, axillaribus, 2-floris; floribus 4-meris; stami- 
nibus in phalangibus stipitatis dense confertis ; fructibus globosis, 
1 ad 2 cm diametro, seminibus 1 vel 2. 
A small glabrous tree 6 to 8 m high, the branches slender, 
terete, the branchlets obscurely 4-angled, the internodes short. 
Leaves very numerous, crowded, oblong-elliptic, 3 to 4 cm long, 
1 to 2 cm wide, coriaceous, brownish and somewhat shining when 
dry, subequally narrowed to the acute base and to the shortly 
rostrate-acuminate apex, the acumen blunt, margins recurved; 
lateral nerves very numerous, slender, densely arranged, not 
prominent; petioles 2 to 3 mm long. Flowers 4-merous, small, 
on the branchlets below the leaves, solitary or in short, 2-flowered 
cymes, the peduncles short, the whole inflorescence not exceeding 
5 mm in length. Outer 2 sepals reniform-ovate, about 1 mm 
long, the inner two subelliptic, concave, about 4 mm long. Petals 
4, as long as the inner sepals, elliptic, rounded. Stamens num- 
erous, arranged on four phalanges, the phalanges, 3.5 mm long, 
the lower 1 mm without anthers, otherwise with scattered sessile 
anthers on all parts. Rudimentary style 2 mm long, the stigma 
discoid or depressed-globose, about 1.2 mm in diameter. Fruit 
globose, 1 to 2 cm in diameter, brown when dry, the pericarp 
