472 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. II, ART. 24 
checked open portions whitish, terete, nodulose at the point 
of branching; twigs slender, lax, yellowish pulverulent especial- 
ly toward the ends. Leaves copious, opposite, subcoriaceous, 
glabrous and dull green on the upper side, ashy gray on the 
other, subentire or obscurely crenate, flat, the average blades 
5 em. long by 2.5 cm. wide below the middle, ovately 
lanceolate or even subelliptic, the smaller ones lanceolate and 
densely covered with golden or flavus yellow especially ben- 
eath, apex gradually tapering and terminating in a blunt 
point, base obtuse or nearly rounded; petiole not distinct, 
gradually tapering into the blade, yellowish pulverulent; stipules 
none; the 8 parallel nerves obscure, plainer on the upper side. 
Inflorescence a spicate raceme, axillary, strict, varying from 2 
to 5 em. long, flavus yellow; flowers monoecious, without a 
calyculus; branches subwharled, subtended by short yellow 
bracts, 5 to 10 mm. long or much shorter, occasionally the basal 
longer ones rebranched; flowers bunched at the flattened end 
of the branches or branchlets, sessile, densely clothed with 
the yellow powder or bloom; pistillate flowers 2 mm. long, 
1 mm. thick, subcylindric, terminated by 4 short triangular 
teeth; ovary completely buried, the callous dise bearing a 
sessile stigma; staminate flowers subglobose, 1.5 mm. thick, 
its 4 triangularly obtuse segments cleft; stamens less than 
0.75 mm. long, inserted upon a more or less lobed disc; 
fruit ellipsoid or subglobose, sessile, bearing at the apex 4 
persistent calyx segments, 6 mm. long, white, juicy; seed 
solitary, green, compressed, elliptic, 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. 
wide, the apex provided with 2 sublateral 1.5 mm. long 
strict appendages. 
Type specimen 10114, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 1908. 
Dense, numerously branched masses upon the lower limbs 
of a large Canariwn tree at 1000 feet. Fruits sweet. The 
genus has not previously been reported from the Philippines. 
Of the five or six known species, ours is most similar to 
the Australian N. subaureus (F. v. Mull.) Oliv. but much 
slenderer, with leaves twice as — and with a differently 
branched inflorescence. 
