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Leaflets of Pihlippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



glabrous, setaceously lanceolate, 7.5 mm long, very early 

 falling and leaving yellowish gray scars; midrib prominent 

 beneath and covered with plain cystoliths, plane above; lat- 

 eral nerves 4 to 7 pairs, much ascending and gradually 

 curved from the midrib, tips of the upper nerves connec- 

 ting, also prominently marked with cystoliths, cross bars 

 or reticulations obsolete. Male inflorescence solitary, hanging 

 from the lower leaf axils or lateral from below the foliage, 



1 dm long, branched from above the middle; peduncle slend- 

 er, blackish brown when dry, glabrous; lower branches 

 usually forked, more or less clustered toward the ultimate 

 ends, in the early state scurfy brown; flowers cremeus, 

 glomerated toward the distal ends; pistillate flowers in 

 dense flattish green subsessile axillary clusters; ultimate ped- 

 icel glandularly tubercular; staminate flowers subsessile or 

 upon 0.3 mm long pedicels, the buds compressed globose? 



2 mm in diameter; perianth 5-segmented, very thin and 

 subhyaline, strongly arching over the stamens; segments almost 

 2 mm long, elliptic to obovate, united toward the base, apex 

 rounded, midrib evident especially toward the apex, the 

 outer or exposed ones occasionally with reddish brown 

 glands, otherwise glabrous and not ciliate; stamens of an 

 equal number and opposite the segments; longer filaments 

 1.5 mm in length, glabrous, dark brown, much flattened, 

 linear, inserted upon the basal portion pf the perianth 

 segments, inflexed in the bud state; anther 0.75 mm long, 

 fully as wide across the base, short ovoid, the cells much 

 thicker and obscurely lobed at the base, obtuse at the apex, 

 much lighter in color than the reddish brown connective. 

 Fruiting heads whitish and succulent, the minute brown seeds 

 sunken in upon the outside of the fleshy receptacles, sessile, 

 5 to 8 mm across, in the axils of the upper leaves, flattish 

 globose; perianth composed of 5 segments; segments nearly 

 free, 1 mm long, broadly clavate, dull greenish or in the dry 

 state appearing nearly black, basal portion subhyaline, the 

 broad or truncate apex usually with a minute point and a 

 few glands; achene brown, fusiform or ellipsoid, 1 mm long, 

 obscurely punctate, sessile, bearing a very short apical 

 point, 0.5 mm thick across the middle. 



Type specimen numbers 13792 and 13708, A. D. E. 



