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Leaflets or Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



toward the ends of the stem and branches, horizontal, sub- 

 coriaceous, the upper one about 4 din long, ft to 7-foliate, 

 imparipinnate; petiole 6 em long, subterete, dull green and 

 ater when dry, obscurely striate, in the early state puberu- 

 lent or finely scurfy, the rachis a trifle angular and extend- 

 ed beyond the upper pair of the leaflets, otherwise similar 

 in color and vestiture; the terminal leaflet largest, the basal 

 pair either much reduced in size or only a little smaller 

 than the upper pairs, elongated, the average blades 7 cm 

 wide across the middle or widest portion, both ends obtuse 

 at the base, acute to acuminately pointed at the apex, entire 

 toward the base, otherwise dentate or serrately toothed es- 

 pecially toward the apex, curing lighter brown beneath, 

 the upper nearly flat side vei'y dark green in the natural 

 state; petiolule of the lateral leaflets 5 mm long, those of 

 the terminal leaflet longer, thick, distinctly channeled along 

 the upper side, similar in color when fresh and when dry 

 to that of the rachis, ultimately glabrate; midrib ridged 

 beneath, even a trifle raised along the upper side, also glab- 

 rous and dull brown in the dry state; lateral nerves 10 to 

 12 pairs, oblique, much less prominent beneath yet plainly 

 marked along the upper side, tips ascendingly curved and 

 usually terminating in the marginal teeth; cross bars very 

 numerous, fine, plainly visible on the nether side. Inflores- 

 cence lateral on our type or between the uppermost devel- 

 oped leaf and the apical young leaf, 5 cm acro.-s, 3- 

 branched from near the base; peduncle proper 3 to 5 mm 

 long, fulvus hairy, relatively very thick, subtended by a 

 caducous rim-like more or less brown hairy involucral bract; 

 main branches similarly pubescent, the lateral longer and 

 nearly at right angles, rebranched from above the middle; 

 ultimate branches thick, angular, short, fulvus pubescent, 

 also subtended by caducous bract vestiges, bearing a small 

 cluster of flowers toward their distal ends; pedicel 1 to 3 

 mm long, brown, pubernlent, subtended by bracteoles; calyx 

 6 mm long including the 2.5 mm long stipitate base, ob- 

 scurely angular, glabrate or pulverulent, the calyx proper 

 deeply campanulate, 3 mm wide across the 4-toothed apex; 

 segments ovately oblong, rounded at the apex, subcoriaceous, 

 usually recurved; corolla 5 mm long, parted into 5 lobes, 



