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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. II. ART. 20 
tough in splitting, odorless, whitish except the reddish heart- 
wood; branches slender, not rigid, widely spreading and form- 
ing an umbrella-shaped crown; bark gray to brown, thick, 
brittle, reddish beneath the skin. Leaves submembranous, 
descending, quite numerous toward the ends of the twigs, 
variable in size, glabrous on the upper side except the gland- 
ular dotted midrib, glabrous beneath except the sparsely pu- 
bescent nérves and more or less glandular, margins entire 
and involute, ovately oblong, base rounded or shortly obtuse, 
apex abruptly terminated into an acute point, the average 
blades 10 cm. long, one half as wide, curvingly condulplicate 
on the upper side and with recurved tips, sublucid on both 
sides, much paler green or yellowish so beneath; nerves 7 to 
11 pairs, faintly united at their tips, prominent beneath and 
usually pulverulent, plainly visible from the upper side, the 
cross bars numerous and faint; petiole 3 to 5 cm. long, 
terete, ultimately glabrous; bud scales 5 mm. long, acute, 
brown, thick, subglabrous. Inflorescence along the twigs and 
occasionally from the lowermost leaf exils, panicled, not exceed- 
ing 5 em. in length, branched from the base, the basal branches 
longest, pulverulent; bracteoles triangular, acute or obtuse, 
persistent; staminate flowers sessilly clustered along the branches, 
the clusters subtended by minute bracts; flowers short stipitate; 
calyx segments 4, oblong to elliptic, deeply concave on the upper 
side, 1 mm. long, united at the base; stamens centrally 
clustered, erect, 5 to 7 in number; filaments glabrous, longer 
ones 2 mm. ; anthers 0.75 mm. across, peltately attached, dehiscing 
from the apex into 4 compartments; capsules globose, 1-seeded, 2 
mm. in diameter, upon 2 to 4 mm. long pedicels, subtended by 
the 2 to 3-parted and persistent calyx segments, terminated 
by the persistent 2 to 3 mm. long solitary stigmatic arm, 
at first covered with a golden yellow powder which when rubbed 
off exposes the viscid surface. 
Type specimen for fruit 9549, for male flower 10109, 
A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos Mountains, Province 
of Negros Oriental, Negros, March and May respectively, 1908. 
This unique tree inhabits the dense woods at 3500 feet 
and extends to the very summit, although at the latter place it 
assumes a stunted tree form. Not common and called by the 
Visayan, ''Belante-ihalas."' 
