560 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. II, Art. 27 
lighter or paler green beneath, the larger blades 15 cm. 
long and 4 cm. wide across the middle, glabrous on the 
upper surface, frequently subfalcate and somewhat inequilateral 
especially toward the base, gradually tapering to the acute 
or acuminate point, base slenderly cuneate, margins subentire 
or occasionally denticulate toward the apex; petiole barely 
longer than 1 cm., in the younger state densely fuliginous 
pubescent; nerves very prominent beneath, ascendingly curv- 
ed, faintly united along the margin where the hairs extend 
beyond the margin as a ciliate fringe, 5 to 7 main pairs, 
occasionally with secondary ones between, reticulations coarse 
and quite prominent beneath, all densely fuliginous pubes- 
cent. Flowers solitary or 2 to 3-clustered, axillary, sub- 
tended at the base by a whorl of 2 to 3 pubeseent short 
bracts; pedicels strict, 1 cm. long, fuliginous pubescent even 
in the fruiting state, ebracteolate; calyx 6 mm. long, bristly 
pubescent on the exterior; the 5 segments united at the 
middle, lanceolate, the margins above the middle involute 
and tapering to a setaceous point; corolla less than 1.5 cm. 
long, the basal portion tubular, saccate or inflated from below 
the middle, delicate, whitish, glabrous, the broad lobes 4 mm. 
long, rounded, nearly equal in size and rotately spreading; 
stamens 4, glabrous, inserted at the middle of the corolla, 
2 fertile and 2 sterile; the fertile filaments thick and very 
strongly looped; the sterile ones straight and filiform; anthers 
broad and elliptic, nearly 1 mm. in length; ovary 4 mm. 
long, glabrous, conically elongated, surrounded at the base 
by a thick rim like disk; style persistent, as long as the 
ovary, comparatively thick, glandularly hairy; stigma 1 mm. 
high, nearly twice as broad, capitate, pulverulent; berry pallid, 
more or less pendulous, not juicy, rather hard, smooth and 
glossy in the fresh state, rugose when dry, ellipsoid, 5 mm. 
long, 4 mm. in diameter; seeds very numerous, light brown. 
Type specimen 9518, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 1908. 
A rather common undershrub in humid woods from 8000 
to 4500 feet. The glossy pallid fruits were plentiful during 
my entire stay of four months, but the flowers were just 
appearing at the close of the collecting season or toward 
the end of June. 
