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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



except the small glandularly hairy axillary tufts, reticulation 

 fine and more evident from beneath; petiole 2 to 3 cm long, 

 densely covered on the upper flattened surface with short 

 stellate tuftlets of hairs. Peduncle stout, obscurely angular, 

 3 to 5 cm long or much shorter, short brown scurfy or 

 hairy, perceptibly thickened at the distal end; main branch- 

 es several, 5 cm long, horizontally spreading, branching 

 from near the base, slightly zigzag from the place of branch- 

 ing, densely fulvus; globose involucre in the bud 3.5 cm 

 in diameter; the subtending bracts 3 or more, smooth and 

 yellowish white on the inner side, densely brown felted on 

 the outside, succulent and falling very early; the outer or 

 terminal flowers sterile and with creamy white petaloid ap- 

 pendages measuring 15 mm long; corolla whitish, delicate, 

 caducous, adnate, falling in tact but ultimately becoming 

 separated into 4 petals from the base, 2 mm long, trunc- 

 ately oblong; calyx smooth, subglobose, 2 mm across, mi- 

 nutely 5-denticulate; stamens 10; filaments free, glabrous, 

 inwardly curved from above the middle, 2.5 mm long; an- 

 thers 0.5 mm long, broadly elliptic, basifixed, emarginate 

 at both ends especially at the apex; ovary entirely encased 

 by the calyx, with a rim-like disk; style also glabrous, us- 

 ually 2 and free, 1.25 mm long, the apical stigmatic crest 

 outwardly bent and mostly puberulent; ovules numerous in 

 each of the 2 compartments; mature fruit not seen. 



Type specimen number 10732, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

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



In dense forested flats from 3000 to 4000 feet elevation. 

 The Bagobos call it "Takir." The fallen bracts were fre- 

 quently met under trees but the plant usually inhabits the 

 uppermost limbs of lofty or giant trees and clear out of 

 sight of the traveling botanist. 



A very close relative of Hydrangea glandulosa Elm. and 

 together they may form a new genus. 



Splraeopsis philippinense Elm. n. sp. 



Tree; trunk 5 dm thick, subterete, bent or suberect, 

 12 m high or higher, chiefly branched toward the top; 

 wood white, soft, light in weight, odorless and quite taste- 



