2844 



Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



variable in size, more or less lance shaped or the largest ones 

 elongated to lanceolate, base obtusely rounded and subentire, 

 otherwise with numerous dentately serrate teeth, the average 

 blades 1 dm long by 3 cm wide in the middle region, 

 frequently much smaller, becoming easily detached while 

 drying; midrib hirsute beneath, strigose above; lateral nerves 

 5 to 7 pairs, the basal pair arising from the base, much 

 ascending, the upper pairs short and more numerous, tips 

 anastomosing, cross bars and cross reticulations very nu- 

 merous and prominent beneath; petiole 5 to 15 mm long, 

 more yellowish hirsute; bud bracts very caducous, 5 mm 

 long, brown, membranous, deeply concave and almost glab- 

 rate on the ventral side, oblongish, terminated by 2 slender 

 teeth. Inflorescence from the upper leaf axils, the fruits 

 laterally clustered below the foliage, 1 cm long, the fruita 

 twice as long in the fruiting state; peduncle solitary or few 

 clustered, gray hirsute, subtended by caducous bracts, bifur- 

 cate; main branches shorter, similarly branched, subtended 

 by deciduous rather sharply pointed bracts, ultimate branch- 

 lets very short; involucral bracts 1 mm long, oblong, 

 sparsely ciliate, membranous, brown, acute to obtuse at the 

 apex, the inner bracts or bracteoles much smaller; pistils 

 many, minute, pedicel-like, surrounded by twice as long 

 linear more or less hairy perianth segments, subsessile; buds 

 of staminate flowers ovoid or subglobose; perianth less than 

 1 mm long, 4-segmented, blackish in the dry state, strig- 

 ulose on the dorsal convex side, oblong, acute at the apex, 

 coriaceous; stamens 4, opposite the segments; filaments 0.3 

 mm long, smooth, dark brown, compressed, inserted upon 

 the basal portion of the perianth segments; anther subrotund or 

 broadest across the top, 0.3 to 0.5 mm across, light yellow even 

 in the dry state, dorsifixed, laterally dehiscent. Fruiting 

 heads subglobose, less than 5 mm in diameter, sour juicy 

 and berry-like, luteus to aurantiacus in color; mature 

 carpels less than 1 mm long, short clavate, irregular in 

 shape or suboblique, usually upon a short but distinct stout 

 pedicel, stigmatic portion relatively large and quite evident, 

 easily becoming detached from the persistent perianth seg- 

 ments. 



Type specimen number 14068, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 



