Baccaurea philippinensis (Merr.) Merr.

ISLAND OF SIBUYAN, APRIL, 1910
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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12804# Everettiodendron philippinense Merr* Slender
tree in sticky red soil of a forested bench at 1850 feet;
stem subterete, 3 inches thick, 20 feet high, branched at the
top; wood odorless and tasteless, soft* the sapwood white,
red in the center with fine radial rays; hark brown, more
or less shedding in small plates, on the branches smooth;
branches widely spreading, rebranched, the twigs subereot;
leaves horizontal or descending, coriaceous, flat or slightly
folded, tips recurved, deep dull green above, much lighter
green beneath, petioles brownish; fruits solitary from the
uppermost leaf axils, subpendulous, dull reddish brown,
eubglobose, 1 inch across, with a conspicuous apex, 3-eelled,
the thick exooarps falling off leaving the seeds in tact to
the persistent placentae; upon 1 inch long stalks; some
trees 1 foot thick stem and 35 feet high; wood rather
and reddish brow#; fruits mature*	jifgf3©
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
DISTRIBUTED BY A. D. E. ELMER
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