Excoecaria philippinensis Merr.

MAGALLANES (MT. GITING-GITING), PROVINCE OF CAPIZ
ISLAND OF SIBUYAN, MAY, 1910
1,2432« Sxcoecaria philippinftnsis Merr. Small tree«
In red toll amongst rooks of a forested ridge of mount
Oultlng, at 2?50 feet; stem 4. inches thick, 15 feet high,
branched from the middle; wood quite soft* white and tinged
with red* especially toward the center, odorless and taste-
less; bark thin, yellowish brown, scaling in thin plates,
with an abundance of sticky latex; branches laxly rebranched
and widely spreading, the ultimate ones green and suberect:
leaves horizontal or ascending, nearly flat, dull green
above, much paler or yellowish so beneath; inf leyese ent
spikes erect, solitary or few, terminal, the raehis yellow-
ish red, the flowers light yellow; ”!»imb«hon. * Magallanes,
“**• ino*	ELMER’S FIELD NOTÉ
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
DISTRIBUTED BY A. D. E. ELMER
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