2822 



Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



alternatingly scattered along the branchlets or twigs, obovate 

 or obovately oblong, rounded at the apex, base obtuse or 

 abruptly cuneate, glabrous above, beneath very finely hairy 

 or canescent, 1 dm long including the stalk, averaging 4 

 cm wide above the middle, frequently smaller ones are 

 intermixed; midrib raised beneath, when young strigosely 

 hairy, finally glabrate; lateral pairs of nerves 5 to 9, di- 

 varicate, subparallel, also pronounced beneath, tip? anastomos- 

 ing, shallowly sunken along the upper side of the blade, 

 reticulations fine and equally evident from both sides; petiole 

 1.5 cm long, glabrous, subterete toward the base, subcom- 

 pressed otherwise. Flowers clustered from the leaf axils, not 

 odorous but with a sweet taste; pedicels green, scurfy brown 

 or pulverulent, 7.5 mm long, scattered in all directions; 

 buds globose, 4 mm in diameter, reddish brown puberulent 

 but soon wearing glabrous; calyx of 5 nearly free and im- 

 bricate segments, more or less united about the base, roundish 

 or oval, thick, curved upon the ventral side, glabrous, the 

 inner 3 thinner especially the margins, 4 mm across, often 

 wider than long, entire; buds globose; corolla of an equal 

 number, united toward the base, ovately oblong or elliptic, 

 whitish and with hyaline margins, numerously and finely veined 

 3.5 mm long, 1 mm less in width, subequal, rlso glabrous, 

 becoming detached as a whole; stamens 5, opposite the pet- 

 als and inserted upon the basal portion; filaments erect 

 1 mm long, expanded toward the base; anther a trifle longer, 

 triangularly ovate, emarginate and basifixed at the base, 

 dehiscing along the edges., the cells widely parted after shed- 

 ding the pollen; ovary conically elongated, glabrous, 2 mm 

 long, terminated by a 5-pointed stigmatic plate. 



Type specimen number 10800, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 



Discovered on a steep wooded slope of mount Cale- 

 lan at 4500 feet altitude. The native or Bagobo name is 

 "Baloloy." 



Apparently nearest related to my number 6071 collected 

 in March, 1904, at Baguio. 



