474 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. 1I, ART. 24 
branches quite rigid, characteristically curved and crooked, 
formning dense tangled masses, wood moderately hard, tough, 
whitish, with a cinnamon brown pith, old bark brown, peeling 
in thin scales; twigs verticellately disposed, rufous tomentose, 
with stellate tuftlets. Leaves scattered, opposite, lucid, very 
rigid, dark green above, paler and glandular punctate beneath, 
quite variable in size, the normal ones 1 dm. long, 6 mm. 
wide across the middle, rounded and frequently inequilateral 
at the base, apex acute to obtuse, oblong or the smaller 
ones subelliptic, margins entire; petiole 2 to 4 cm. long, at 
first rufous tomentose, ultimately wearing glabrous, the base 
broadly expanded; midvein very prominent beneath; the lat- 
eral 7 to 10 pairs ascendingly curved, tips anastomosing, tufts 
of hairs in the axils, otherwise glabrous, numerous reticulations 
plainly visible. Inflorescence terminal, mostly oh the subterm- 
inal ascending twigs, yellowish or rufous tomentose, corymbose- 
ly spreading, nearly 1.5 dm. wide; primary peducles subcom- 
pressed, rufous hairy, subtended by deciduous subglabrous bracts, 
branched at irregular lengths, the outer ones terminated by sterile 
showy flowers; branchlets arranged along the upper side and bear- 
ing erect flowers; terminal pedicels very short, the lateral ones 
2 to 3 mm. long; calyx perigynous, becoming entirely glabrous, 
turbinate, 2 mm. long, as wide across the top, truncate; 
petals 4, early falling, 2.5 mm. long, obtuse, 1.5 mm. wide, 
with broad bases; stamens 10, freely inserted upon the calyx 
rim; anthers basifixed, ellipsoid, 0.75 mm. long, almost as 
broad; filaments glabrous; style 2 to 3, similar to the stylo- 
podium of Umbelliferae, bearing thick subclavate stigmas, the 
style and stigmatic portion 1.5 mm. in length, persistent; 
young capsule subglobose, 3-celled, containing many elongated 
usually curved seeds; pedicel of sterile flower 2 cm. long, 
slender, glabrous; the petaloid calyx lobes rotate, 8 em. in 
diameter; segments 4, nearly free and slightly clawed at the 
base, creamy white, broadly obovate, entire or occasionally 
lobulate along the subtruncate apex, equal. | 
Type specimen 9846, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
A tall tree climber forming tangled bushes and more or 
less rambling over tree tops on a very steep wooded ravine 
at 3000 feet near the base of the main precipice of the high- - 
