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usually solitary from the upper leaf axils, few paniculately 

 branched from above the middle; branches opposite, only 

 the larger or lower ones rebranched, subtended by blunt 

 glabrous bracts, bearing from the distal end 1 to nearly 



3 odorless flowers; pedicels 2 to 3 mm long, glabrous, 

 rather thick, subtended by a solitary or a pair of bract 

 vestiges; calyx yellowish green, subcampanulately, glabrous, 

 obscurely punctate, rigidly coriaceous, 1.5 mm across; the 



4 segments united about the base, a trifle over 1 mm 

 long, broadly ovate; petals cremeus, of an equal number, 

 alternating with the calyx segments, in anthesis spreading, 

 valvate, coriaceous, very broadly ovate, also glabrous, punct- 

 ate, apex subacute, 1.5 mm long and equally as wide 

 toward the base; stamens 4, alternating with the petals; fil- 



, aments compressed, glabrous, gradually tapering from the base 

 to the apex, 1 mm long at least; anther 0.6 mm long, elliptic, 

 basifixed, base notched, apex truncately obtuse, sublaterally 

 dehiscent; ovary crown truncate, glabrous, toward the cen- 

 ter provided with 4 lighter colored cushion -like excrescences; 

 style very short, stigma minute, all glabrous. Glandular 

 capsule erect, 4-parted, rigid, glabrous, punctate; each divi- 

 sion at least 3 mm long, oblongish, compressed though 

 much thickened at the base, the apex 1.5 mm wide, inser- 

 ted upon the apex and one third way down the dorsal 

 side; inner carpel similar in shape, dehiscing along the 

 suture all around, eglandular, hyaline and bony; ovules 2 

 in each cell, much flattened, sessile; seeds 2 but frequently 

 only one maturing in each cell, 1.5 mm long, ovate- 

 ly elongated from the side view, compressed especially to- 

 ward the apex which is extended into an oblongish wing as 

 the seed itself, smooth, dark brown especially the seed por- 

 tion. 



Type specimen numbers 13702 and 13751, A. D. E. 

 Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, 

 Mindanao, September, 1912. 



Both of the above numbers were collected in the cold 

 moss covered and wind swept ridges between the summit 

 peaks of mount Urdaneta at 5500 to 5750 feet altitude. 

 The former number was named "Yadagon" while the latter 

 number the Manobos called "Aliayan." 



