LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, ART. 29 
and usually conduplicate on the upper side, much: lighter be- 
neath, ascending, the entire margins involute, glabrous, minute- 
ly punctate above, below usually provided with many brown to 
coal black circular dots, obovate, the apex broadly round- 
ed to subtruncate and usually terminated by a distinct blunt 
point, base. quite abruptly attenuate, the margins frequent- 
ly decurrent along the stout glabrous 1 cm. long petiole, 
the average ones 8 cm. long including the petiole, 5 cm. 
wide above the middle; midvein prominent, grooved along 
the upper side, keeled or edged along the lower; lateral veins 
numerous, equally obscure on both sides, ascending and 
parallel, submarginally united. Inflorescence terminal or from 
the uppermost leaf axils, glabrous, corymbose, about 1 dm. 
across, slightly exceeding the leaves; peduncles ascending, 
branched above the middle; the secondary ones irregularly 
angular, articulate and in the early stage subtended by bracts; 
pedicels a few mm. long, subtended by a pair of thick triangu- 
larly obtuse 1 mm. long bracts; calyx reddish brown, 6 mm. 
long, 4 mm. wide across the top, turbinate, wrinkled in 
the dry state, subtended by a pair of small bracts, 4-apic- 
ulate; corolla creamy white, caducous, in the bud state im- 
bricately overarching the sex organs, irregularly elliptic, 3 
mm. across, with a few large punctate glands, about 4 and 
calyptrately falling; stamens numerous, in the bud state inflex- 
ed, ultimately widely spreading, inserted upon the ovary rim, 
unequal in length; filaments glabrous, fleshy, thickened and 
somewhat flattened toward the base, at first connivent, ul- 
timately nearly free, with a strong persistent bond at the 
point of inflection, the longer ones 5 mm. in length; an- 
thers basifixed, 0.75 mm. long, elliptic or widest at the 
subeordate base; style 3 to 4 mm. long, subterete, strict, 
glabrous, bearing a small terminal stigma; ovary sunken be- 
neath the enlarged calyx rim; fruit not known. 
Type specimen 9187, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
Discovered in open woods skirting mount Banahao and 
bordering grass fields at 2000 feet. Its flowers have a very 
strong clove odor and the calyces are very stringent with 
the same taste. Possibly they could be utilized in commerce. 
Aside from the mount Mariveles E. congesta Merr., it is 
