686 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Arr. 39 
dense crown, twigs suberect and with a dirty brown puber- 
ulence;wood soft, dingy white, without odor or taste; bark checked, - j 
more or less lenticelled on the branchlets. Leaves chartaceous, ed 
horizontally spreading, dark green and sublucid on the upper 4 
glabrous side, much lighter and short puberulent beneath, 
entire but with subinvolute dry margins, alternatingly scat- 
tered along the twigs, exceedingly variable in size, the larger 
blades 17.5 cm. long by 7.5 cm. wide above the middle, broadly — . 
rounded at the top, terminating with an abrupt acute point, 
base obtuse or broadly cuneate, occasionally rounded and 
inequilateral, obovately oblong, the smaller ones elliptish, 
drying brown; midvein quite prominently raised beneath, 
grayish puberulent especially along the sides; lateral nerves 
arcuate, 5 to 7 on each side, similar in vestiture, reticulations 
rather coarse and relatively prominent beneath; petiole up to 
5 em. longin the larger or lower leaves, when young covered 
with short crisp hairs, becoming glabrous, ascending. Inflor- 
escence erect, broadly paniculate, 2 dm. long, fully as wide, 
the lowermost branches subtended by small leaves, the main 
branches branched from near the base, densely covered with 
‘short grayish brown crisp hairs, the ultimate branchlets 
divaricate and few to several-flowered toward the end or at 
least above the middle; pedicels nearly 5 mm. long, crisply 
pubescent, at the apex bearing a short and similarly pubes- 
cent bract; involucral bracts dark purple, numerous, imbri- 
cate, persistent, and widely spreading; the basal ones scarcely 
longer than. 1 mm., ovate, the back more or less pubescent; 
the inner ones 5 times as long, oblong to oblanceolate, sub- 
glabrous or only the margins finely ciliate; flowers about 
6 in a head; corolla whitish toward the base, otherwise pink 
or light purple, 6 mm. long, glabrous, tubular, the 5 acum- 
 inate segments nearly 2 mm. long; stamens 5, inserted upon 
the middle of the tube; filaments filiform, glabrous, 1.25 
mm. long, slightly wider at base, entirely free; anthers 2.5 
mm. long, linear, acuminate, basifixed, sagitately tailed at 
the base, united; style of the same color, nearly 6 mm. long, 
a glabrous, rather thick and fleshy, articulate at the base; 
stigmatic arms 3 mm. long, gradually tapering to a rather 
. fine point, finely puberulent; young achenes 1 .5 mm. long, 
ximo obovoid, compressed, with short scattered hairs 
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