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Leaflets ok Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



Callicarpa attenuifolia Elm. n. sp. 



Very lax shrub; stem solitary or few clustered, terete, 

 suberect or spreading, branched from near the base; wood 

 very soft, greenish white, odorless and tasteless, with a 

 large white pith; old bark greenish, sparingly brown len- 

 ticelled; branches horizontally spreading, terete, green, avel- 

 laneus scurfy at least in the dry state, very slender and 

 occasionally drooping. Leaves well scattered oppositely, 

 descending, membranous, the gradually tapering acuminate 

 or more commonly caudate tips recurved, only shallowly 

 folded on the upper darker green side, slenderly attenuate 

 toward the base, elongated or nearly fusiform in outline, 

 when dry brown above and yellowish green beneath, b<>th 

 sides with glistening yellow minute glands, only the mid- 

 vein, nerves and cross bars on both sides grayish pulveru- 

 lent, the average or larger ones 2 dm long by 4 cm wide 

 across the middle, entire toward the base and toward tbe 

 apical point or tail, otherwise finally and rather sharply 

 dentate; petiole I to 2 cm long, avellanens scurfy or pul- 

 verulent, striate and fluted along the upper side, ascend- 

 ingly curved from the base; midrib prominent beneath 

 toward the base, grooved along the upper side, similarly 

 scurfy or pulverulent; lateral pairs 9 to 12, much ascend- 

 ing and a trifle curved, also prominent beneath and sim- 

 ilar in pulverulence, crowded toward the apex, very short 

 at the base, tips anastomosing, reticulations quite evident 

 and oblique or nearly so beneath. Inflorescence erect or 

 divaricate, axillary but chiefly toward the top, bifurcate 

 from below the base, 2 to 3 cm across; main stalks or 

 peduncles proper 1 cm long at most, avellaneus scurfy, 

 repeatedly forked at regular intervals, all the branches 

 similar in vestiture and subtended by setaceous bracteoles, 

 . the ultimate ones bearing toward their distal ends small 

 clusters of odorless flowers; buds truncately obovoid, their 

 pedicels very short and becoming easily detached, thereby 

 leaving conspicuous scars, subtended by 0.5 mm long linear 

 bracts; calyx cup shaped, 1.25 mm long, 1 mm thick 

 across the truncate or minutely apiculate apex, rather con- 



