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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



larger lamina 13 cm long and nearly 5 cm wide toward 

 the base, the upper or smaller lamina less than one half 

 as large; longer petioles 2.5 em long, striate or angular, 

 fluted along the upper side, densely ferrugineus scurfy or 

 coarsely pulverulent; midrib similarly scurfy or puberulent 

 on both sides, sunken along the upper side and prominently 

 raised along the lower side; lateral nerves of the larger 

 leaves 5 to 7, ascendingly curved, relatively prominent and 

 yellow beneath, tips barely united, cross bars and reticula- 

 tions quite evident from beneath. Inflorescence terminal 

 and from the upper leaf axils; peduncle usually solitary, 

 ascending, 5 cm long or shorter, similarly pulverulent, some- 

 what curved, with the forked branches 1 dm long or shorter; 

 branches from above the middle, similarly forked toward 

 their distal ends, subtended by 5 to 20 mm long linear 

 or setaceous ochroleucus pulverulent ascendingly curved and 

 subpersistent bracts; ultimate branches subtended by bract- 

 eoles, bearing a small cluster of flowers toward the distal 

 ends; pedicels varying from 1 to 2 mm long, one half as 

 thick, terete, densely covered by short stellate hairs; buds 

 in the very young state globose, becoming elongated; calyx 

 cup shaped, 3 mm deep and as wide across the 6-apiculate 

 top, leathery, covered with a stellate puberulence and in- 

 termixed with some light yellow; corolla submembranous, 

 7 mm long, gradually expanded from the base toward the 6- 

 segmented top, the calyx surrounded portion glabrous, other- 

 wise the outer surface densely covered with light yellow 

 glands and with a stellate puberulence; lobes imbricate in 

 the bud state, oblong, obtuse, at the apex, glabrous on the in- 

 ner sides; stamens 6, included, alternating with the seg- 

 ments; filaments slender, 2.5 mm long, glabrous, inserted 

 upon the basal portion of the corolla, compressed and slight- 

 ly wider at the base; anthers equalling the filaments, ob- 

 long, 1 mm wide, apex truncately rounded and obscurely 

 emarginate, basifixed and biiobed at the base, dehiscing 

 along the edges, the connective on both sides strewn with 

 light or pale yellow glands; ovary 1 mm wide across the 

 flattish gland covered top; style terete, fleshy, 4 mm long, 

 curved and twisted toward the base; stigma capitate, sub- 

 globose, pulverulent. Fruits globose, 4 mm in diameter, three 



