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Leaflets of Philippjkk Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



the middle; wood odorless, slightly bitter or without taste, 

 moderately hard or soft, the thin sapwood white, the heart- 

 wood reddish tinged; bark thick, smooth, brown on the 

 trunk, gray on the branches, otherwise castaneus; main 

 branches few and widely spreading; twigs not numerous, 

 very slender and lax, horizontal and descending, appearing 

 a trifle zigzag, puberulent, yellowish brown when dry. Leaves 

 coriaceous, similarly spreading, in alternating distichous rows, 

 copious, the very abruptly acute apex recurved, broadly ob- 

 tuse or rounded at the base, oblong or subelliptic, quite 

 variable in size, entire, fuligineus in color on both sides when 

 dry, the larger ones 12 cm long by 4.5 cm wide at the 

 base, the smaller ones one half as large, glabrous, much 

 deeper green above; midrib prominent beneath, also slightly 

 raised on the upper side toward the base, very deep red- 

 dish brown on the dry specimens, in the young state pu- 

 berulent, ultimately glabrate except along the sides; lateral 

 nerves 5 to 7 pairs, much ascending though only slightly 

 curved, comparatively prominent, cross reticulations obscure; 

 petiole 5 to 8 mm long, thick, caniculate, bark covered, 

 glabrate when old. Flowers ascending, odorless, usually in 

 dense clusters of the leaves; pedicels none or short and very 

 thick; calyx 5 mm long, short yellowish green pubescent 

 or puberulent on the outside only, more or less united at 

 the base, angularly rugose; segments 5, oblong, averaging 

 2 mm wide, imbricate in the bud, rigidly coriaceous, the 

 margins much thinner, the median portion of the inner seg- 

 ments almost ridged along the back, rounded at the apex, el- 

 liptic or merely oblong, slightly unequal in width; petals 

 4.5 mm long, oblong, narrowed at the base, rounded at the 

 apex and occasionally minutely notched, 1.5 mm wide, 

 merely pubescent on the back, densely villous on the whole 

 inner surface, frequently becoming twisted, coriaceous, decid- 

 duous; ovary surrounded by the densely pubescent stamineal 

 tube which is nearly 3 mm long and distinctly stipitate at 

 the base; stamens about 8, inserted upon the truncate apical 

 portion of the ovary with the stamineal tube; filaments 1 

 mm in length, long pubescent; anther 1 mm long, 0.75 

 mm wide, oblong, basifixed, base truncately rounded, apex 

 minutely muoronate; stigmas composed of several linear more 



