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suberect, very rough and dirty scurfy; bark latericius ex- 

 cept the brownish more or les3 scaling surface, with latex; 

 wood soft, odorless and tasteless, white and reddish tinged 

 toward the center. Leaves alternatingly crowded toward the 

 ends of the branchlets, chartaceous, ascending, duller green 

 on the upper side, curing dark copper brown on both sides, 

 glabrous except the midrib, 3 to 4 dm long by 12 to 16 

 cm wide above the middle, the entire edges minutely in- 

 volute in the dry state, obovately oblong or cuneate, broadly 

 rounded at the top and usually with a short blunt point, 

 occasionally inequilateral toward the cuneate base, the very 

 young leaves very densely fulvus hirsute; midrib very thick 

 and large beneath, in the early state subfulvus beneath, 

 ultimately glabrous, flat and with a middle ridge along the 

 middle, yellowish when fresh, dark brown when dry; later- 

 al nerves 15 to 18 on each side of the midrib, oblique, 

 straight, ascendingly curved toward the apex and the upper 

 ones more or less united, very prominent beneath, cross bars 

 oblique, faint yet quite evident from beneath; petiole at 

 most 3 cm long, very stout, flat and compressed, striate 

 along the upper side, yellowish gray pulverulent, after fall- 

 ing leaving raised scars; stipular-like bracts chartaceous, 

 1 cm long, nearly glabrous, oblong to elliptic, grayish when 

 old. Flowers out of season. Infrutescence clustered imme- 

 diately beneath the foliage; pedicels arising from short tu- 

 bercles or coarse excrescences, 1.5 to 2 em long, scurfy or 

 yellowish pulverulent, slightly and gradually thickened to- 

 ward the distal end. more or less striate; fruit green, el- 

 lipsoid, smooth, glabrous, 2.5 cm long, often a trifle flat- 

 tened, subtended by the segmented calyx, normally with 2 

 large shining brown seeds with plane ventral side, often with 

 only I ellipsoid seed with a dull longitudinal zone along 

 one side. 



Type specimen number 13263, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 

 1912. 



Gathered in humus covered clay of a forested ridge at 



1000 feet height. Its Manobo vernacular name is "Tacan." 



Quite different from my number 13896 or the following 



new species collected in this same general region. Neither is it 



