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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vin, Art. 12a 



covered with fruits from the base to the top. Female 

 flowers (judging from the fruiting perianths) about 5 

 mm. long; the corolla twice as long as the calyx. Fruit 

 ovoidly ellipsoid, subacute, 12 mm. long, 7 mm. thick, 

 a trifle asymmetrical, the apex terminated by a small cir- 

 cular areola. Seed broadly ovate, equally rounded at 

 both ends, 7 mm. in length, 5 mm. in diameter; the 

 hilurn distinctly impressed all along one side; the raphe 

 branches closely anastomosing and forming a close network' 

 about the seed; albumen deeply ruminate. Fruits dark 

 green, turning yellowish and finally purpureous. 



Mindanao: Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of 

 Agusan, August 1912, number 13663. Field-note:— An 

 erect slender tree; stem 5 inches thick and 25 feet high, 

 terete, smooth and dull gray, obscurely ringed toward 

 the leaf crown; leaves crowded and imbricated at their 

 bases, 10 feet long, gracefully recurved; petiole proper 

 2 feet long, rigid, dark green, flat along the upper side, 

 rounded beneath, expanded toward the base; leaflets hor- 

 izontal or descending, dull green on both sides or a 

 trifle paler beneath, very tough, reduced toward the distal 

 end; fruiting panicle recurved and pendant, arising from 

 the lower leaf axils; peduncle 1 foot long, 1 inch wide, com- 

 pressed, green and fuligineous scurfy covered, quite bend- 

 able; panicle proper 2 feet long and as wide, the branches 

 arising alternatingly, only the basal or larger ones re- 

 branched, all the stalks flexible and green, usually curved 

 and widely spreading; young fruits dark green, then turn- 

 ing flav us and finally purpureous, short ellipsoid, at least 

 0.33 inch long, subtended by green bracts. Discovered 

 in well drained rocky soil of a steep densely wooded 

 depression at 3500 feet altitude between Duros and Ca- 

 wilanan peaks. The Manobo name is "Marighoy." 



Luzon: I rosin (Mt. Bulusan), Province of Sorsogon, 

 November 1915, number U937. Field-note.— A strict 

 slender tree; stein round, 4 inches thick, 20 to 30 feet 

 high; the pithy wood whitish, the outside much harder; 

 bark brown or gray, smooth and ringed especially to- 

 ward the top; leaves several, ascending from the much 

 broadened and imbricately sheathing base, otherwise grace- 

 fully recurved, 5 to 8 feet long, leaflet bearing to 

 within 1 to 2 feet from the base; segments descending, 

 chartaceous. equally green on both sides; petiole proper 

 yellowish green, strongly convex beneath, curvingly 

 grooved on the upper side, smooth; paniculate infrutes- 

 cence arising from the lower leaf axils, a yard in length, 

 branched from the middle, pendant; peduncle compressed. 



