March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2861 



ascendingly curved from the midrib, relatively conspicuous, 

 similar in color fresh or dry, cross and coarse reticulations 

 faint; petiole varying 2 to 14 cm long, more or less group- 

 ed along the upper side, glabrous, pale green though 

 brownish black when dry, glabrate or brown pulverulent, 

 usually a trifle expanded at the base; bud bract erect or 

 nearly so, much paler green beneath, glabrate, acuminately 

 pointed, 7.5 mm long, involute. Inflorescence or infrutes- 

 cence horizontally spreading, paniculate or subcorymbose, 

 arising laterally in between the leaves or subaxillary, char- 

 acteristically spreading over the twigs and foliage, not pen- 

 dant, 1 to 2 dm long or wide; peduncle one fourth as 

 long, usually solitary, glabrous, dull brown when dry; 

 branches alternating, comparatively short, divaricate, simi- 

 lar in color when dry, green or lividus tinged in the 

 fresh state, the lower or longer branches usually with a 

 very short secondary branch arising from the same more 

 or less thickened and expanded portion of the main stalk; 

 larger branches similarly rebranched from the middle, the 

 ultimate ones very short; distal ends of the ultimate branch- 

 lets of the infrutescence much compressed and expanded, 

 glabrous, usually bearing small clusters of 3 pistillate florets; 

 pedicels 2 mm long, subcompressed, glabrous, at the base 

 subtended by mere bract vestiges, gradually enlarged toward 

 the distal end; ovary solitary, sessile, tilted, subtended by 

 a rim-like disk with 3 short and unequal teeth on the 

 outer side, flattened, ovate from the side view, 1 mm 

 long, extended into a 2.5 mm long slenderly tapering sol- 

 itary stigma which along its ventral surface is distinctly 

 pulverulent. The subtending involucre of the fruit twice 

 as large, falling with it; carpel solitary, subpendant, dark 

 green, smooth, subcompressed, ovoid, 5 mm less across the 

 base, obtuse at the apex. 



Type specimen number 14019, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 

 ober, 1912. 



Discovered in wet loose gravelly or stony ground along 

 a streamlet in densely shaded or wooded ravines at 750 

 feet above ocean level. The Manobos call it "Sagay de 

 Bungabung" or the Sagay along the Bungabung creek. 



