434 LEAFLETS or PRILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II. Arr. 20 
same axils, subglabrous or when young dirty yellowish pubescent, 
very sparingly branched; pedicels from 1 to 3 mm. long, sub- 
tended by short acute bracts, asually short yellowish pubes- 
cent; calyx persistent, reflexed with age, united toward the 
base, 3-lobed, the segments triangularly obtuse and about 1 
mm. in length, resinous glandular, ovary glandular, when 
mature more or less covered with resin colored granules; style 
arms 2, cleft clear to the base, rather thick, brown, 4 mm. 
long, subcompressed and with minute excrescences; capsule 
2-celled, laterally subcompressed, obovoid or subglobose, 4 mm. 
thick; seeds solitary in each cell, ventrally attached to the 
septum, plano-convex, smooth, shining black, 2to 3 mm. in 
diameter, confluent and subpersisting even after the carpels 
have become detached; staminate flowers not seen. 
Type specimen 8108, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. : 
Only one tree was observed in woods near a precipice at 
3000 feet on Mount Banahao. 
Very similar to M. javanica Muell. Arg., but our specimen 
is more glabrous, base of foliage without the incurved mar- 
gins, panieles much shorter and more numerously branched, 
and with much smaller floral bracts; the capsules are also 
larger and confluent, containing larger shining black seeds 
which are plano-convex rather than globose. 
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