2780 Leaflets of Philippine Totany 



Manobo name is "Candingon." 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



Discocalyx congestiflora Elm. n. sp. 



Upright and shrubby; stem terete, 3.5 cm thick, 3 m 

 high, more or less crooked and unbranched; wood soft, 

 radially marked, only the thin sapwood white, otherwise 

 reddish tinged, odorless and without taste, with a large 

 pith; bark dull brown and smooth, isabellinus except the 

 epidermis. Leaves alternatingly clustered toward the end of 

 the thick stem or in subwhorls of seasonal growths, radially 

 spreading, horizontal or descending, leathery, shining deep 

 green on the upper side, paler green beneath, glabrous, 

 curing grayish brown, elongated, the average lamina 4 dm 

 long by 11 cm wide at the middle, entire toward the at- 

 tenuate or slenderly cuneate base, otherwise minutely den- 

 ticulate, apex gradually tapering to the acute and recurved 

 point; midrib exceedingly strong and prominent beneath, 

 curing similarly grayish, deeply grooved along the upper 

 side; lateral nerves 13 to 17 pairs, with secondary interven- 

 ing ones from the midrib to one half the distance to the 

 margins, gradually curved upwards, their tips reticulately 

 united, coarse reticulations quite evident from beneath, the 

 finer reticulations more evident from the upper side; pet- 

 iole 1 dm or less in length, 6 mm thick, subterete except 

 the canal, thickened at the base and leaving large scars 

 after falling, drying gray, also glabrous. Inflorescence usually 

 between the whorla of the foliage, divaricate; peduncle vary- 

 ing from 7 to 17 cm long, stout, green, glabrous, grayish 

 brown when dry, compressed, perceptibly thickened toward 

 the distal end which is terminated by 1 or more of short 

 and exceedingly thickened ligneous branches with transverse 

 scars; bud inflorescence covered with caducous imbricated 

 bracts; these bracts are membranous, blackish brown when 

 dry, glabrous, whitish in the fresh state but early wilting, 

 1 to 1.5 cm long, oblong though gradually tapering from 

 the base to the apex, deep purple streaked or spotted, leav- 

 ing transverse scars after falling, those subtending the flower 

 bearing stalks very similar and also caducous; panicles 

 averaging 1 dm long, radially spreading, glabrous, purpureus 



