Claoxylon arboreum Elmer

11835* Clayoxylon arboreum Hm. Tree 40 f«*t hig£h
with a 2 feet thick stem, on a fertile moist wooded edge
of the south side of the Bartering river at 4000 feet; wood
mOrdtfSrately soft, light, odorless and tasteless, "maple•like”
gain, dingy white: bark minutely checked, yellowish mottled
with grayt limbs mostly *t the top, widely spreading *nd
forming a flat crown; twigs crooked, 1 inch thick, with
ascending tips; leaves horizontally spreading, deep green
and very lucid on the upper only shallowly conduplieate
surface, tips twisted or abruptly recurved9 lighter green
and duller beneath, coriaceous; inflorescence ascending,
axillary, the spikes 1 to £ feet long, greenish throughout
except the odorless yellowish green flowers; "Magabad-bad;*
To4«ya. Septe»b#r. 1909. ELMER’S FIELD NOTES
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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
DISTRIBUTED BY A. D. E. ELMER
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TODAYA (MT. APO), DISTRICT OF DAVAO
ISLAND OF MINDANAO. SEPTEMBER, 1909
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