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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. US 



deep brown scales or scale-clusters, curing dull brown on 

 both sides, slightly unequal toward the subcuneate base, 

 obovately elongated, 2 dm long by 6 cm wide above the 

 middle, obtusely rounded at the distal end and abruptly 

 pointed, margins apiculate except toward the inequilateral- 

 ly sided base; midrib raised beneath, scurfy brown; lateral 

 nerves 11 to 15 pairs, also prominent and scurfy beneath, 

 subparallel, the basal ones very oblique, distal ends of the 

 upper ones curved, cross bars and coarse reticulations few 

 and relatively obscure, also scurfy, petiole I cm long, prom- 

 inently caniculate above, scurfy beneath even the you Tig 

 green portion of the branches; stipule caducous, equalling 

 the petiole or less, sparsely sprinkled with scale like hairs, 

 linearly oblong, after falling leaving prominent oblique ex- 

 crescences. Staminate inflorescence subpendant, greenish white, 

 solitary from the lower leaf axils, 1 dm long, corymbosely 

 paniculate from the middle, all the branches as well as the 

 peduncle fleshy and latericius scurfy, nearly black when 

 dry; the short ultimate branchlets subtended by bracts; 

 pistillate flowers in sessile greenish compressed heads from 

 the upper leaf axils; staminate flowers subsessile or upon 

 0.5 mm long pedicels which are usually subtended by bract 

 vestiges green except the dark brown scales; buds trunc- 

 ately obovoid; perianth tips overlapping the stamens, 5-seg- 

 mented; segments united at the base, obovately oblong, red- 

 dish brown tinged, otherwise hyaline except the mid vein, 

 broadly rounded at the apex, gradually narrowing toward 

 the base^ the exterior especially the basal portion sprinkled 

 with chocolate brown scales, the sides transparently punct- 

 ate; stamens as many as segments, opposite them and in- 

 serted upon their bases; filaments incurved in the bud state, 

 2 mm long ultimately, glabrous, flattened, the middle line 

 dark brown, sides hyaline though tinged with a little brown, 

 rugosely folded or glandular along the upper side toward 

 the apex; anther 1 mm long, apex truncate and the slight- 

 ly emarginate base lobed, ovately oblong, attached a trifle 

 below the middle, the cell walls also reddish brown tinged; 

 pistillate heads flatly globose, sessile or nearly so from the 

 upper leaf axils, 5 to 8 mm across; florets very numerous, 

 dense, usually subtended by 0.75 mm long linear glabrous 



