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FOXWORTHY. 
A large shrub or small tree, sometimes 10-15 m tall and 10-20 cm 
in diameter breast high. Bark light-colored, thin and finely fissured. 
Wood hard and heavy, pale-yellowish or whitish in color. Leaves small 
or large, coriaceous or chartaceous, greenish or yellowish-green in drying, 
very variable in size and shape, ovate-obl'qhg or- lanceolate, tapering to 
both ends or broader at the base; large specimens 11-18 cm long and 
4-7 cm wide. Ripe fruit reddish, sessile, very variable i'n size and shape. 
The ripe fruit ,is commonly eaten, after cooking. The leaves are also 
cooked and eaten and the bark furnishes a strong bast fiber which is 
used in making- cordage. 
A tree of rather scattered occurrence but wide distribution in the 
lowland forests and on low ridges. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Merrill 2516, Williams 505, 113, For. Bur. 178 
Barnes, For. Bur. 614, 637, 2490 Borden, Whitford 1036, 1078, 1253, For. Bur. 
2501 Meyer, Bur. Sci. 1601, 1602 Foxworthy : Province of La Laguna, For. Bur. 
10130 Curran: Province of Tayabas, Bur. Sci. 13197 Foxworthy & Ramos. Min- 
doro, Jose Nable 19, For. Bur. 6185 Merritt. Leyte, Elmer 7087, 7348. Min- 
danao, Province of Surigao, Ahern 349, 410 Quadras: District of Zamboanga, 
For. Bur. 9155 Whitford & Hutchinson. Palawan, Merrill 848. 
Native name: Bago. This same name is used for This plant in various parts 
of the Malay Archipelago. 
Said to be cultivated throughout the Netherlands Indies and to have a large 
number of varieties. Africa; tropical Asia; Malay Peninsula; Java; Borneo; 
Celebes; Amboina; Moluccas; New Guinea; Pacific Islands; the Philippines. 
2. Gnetum arboreum sp. nov. Plate XXXII. 
Arbor 7 m altus, 10 cm diametro. Fructus pedicellatus. 
A tree, 7 m tall and 10 cm in diameter. Leaves elliptic, acuminate 
at apex and cuneate at base, tapering into the slightly winged petiole 
which is canaliculate above, 5-9 cm long and 2. 5-4. 5 cm wide. Second- 
ary veins 6-8, with connection of veins as in G. latifolium Bl. Fruit 
orange-red on short branch. In our material this branch is only 3.5 
cm long with four internodes. Only two fruits are left' on the type 
and these are each about 2.5 cm long and 17-18 mm in diameter, taper- 
ing at apex and base, small mucro at apex. Pedicels about 2 cm long. 
The appearance of this form is what one might except if a small- 
leaved form of G. latifolium . were to acquire the tree habit. Found at 
an elevation of more than 900 m, on Mt. Binuang in the former district 
of Infanta, Tayabas Province, Luzon. 
Type: Bur. Sci. No. 9439, collected by C. B. Robinson, Aug. 28, 1909. 
3. Gnetum latifolium Blume in Nov. Fam. (1833) 30, et in Hoev. & De Vriese, 
Tijd. Nat. Gesch. 1 (1834) 162; Rumphia 4 (1S48) 5, t. 174; Endl. Syn. Conif. 
(1847) 251; Presl Epim. Bot. (1851) 236; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 2 (1859) 1067; 
Pari, in DC. Prodr. 16" (1868) 350; Beccari, Malesia 1 (1877) 181; F.-Vill. 
Noviss. App. (1880) 210; Vidal, Sinopsis Atlas (1883) xlii, t. 97, f. A; Phan. 
Cum. Philip. (1885) 160; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 295; Ceron, Cat. PI. 
