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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vili, Art. 121 



marked by the leaf scars, obscurely angular and hairy 

 toward the tips. Leaves opposite, the pairs often very 

 unequal, the largest lamina 18 cm. long by 6 cm. wide, 

 very sharply acuminate to setaceously pointed, base rounded 

 or obtuse and somewhat oblique in the larger ones, 

 oblong or the smaller ones broadly lanceolate, upon 1 

 to 3 cm. long caniculate petioles which in the younger 

 state is covered with a deciduous olivaceous pubescence, 

 very much paler green beneath even so in the dry 

 state, glabrous on the upper surface and also on the 

 lower side when old, entire around the base, otherwise 

 obscurely dentate or spiculate; midrib prominent beneath, 

 with 7 to 10 laterally oblique and slightly curved nerves 

 on each side, all densely covered with yellowish brown 

 hairs which are deciduous; bud bracts caducous, ciliate, 

 lanceolate, 1.5 cm. long. Flowers few clustered from 

 the leaf axils, upon short common stalks, subtended by 

 an oblanceolate to linear more or less pubescent involu- 

 cral bracts which are 3- veined and up to 2 cm. in length; 

 pedicel hirsute, slender, 5 mm. long, subtended by smaller 

 bracts; calyx greenish, 1.5 cm. long, turbinate, mem- 

 branous and ciliate, the 2 broad lobes extended into a 

 narrow projection which at the apex is 2 or 3-lobed; 

 corolla 4 cm. long, the basal one third tubular, the 

 upper two thirds inflated and 2 cm. wide across the 

 broadly rounded short lobed apex, white, thin, with long 

 appressed hairs on the exterior except toward the base 

 and apex; fertile stamens 2, one half as long as the 

 corolla, their filaments thread-like and curved; anthers 

 oblong, nearly 4 mm. long; pistil about as long, the 

 lanceolate hairy ovary extended into a thick similarly 

 pubescent style; stigma thick, bilobed, papillate; disk 

 glabrous, rigid, tubular, 1.5 mm. long and nearly as 

 thick, truncate. Fruits 2 to 3 cm. long, terete, fusiform, 

 densely covered with shining yellow hairs. 



Type specimen number 17813. A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Bafios (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon, June- 

 July, 1917. Discovered in the moss laden wooded ravines 

 just below the peak. 



Most closely allied to Cyrtandra lagunae Krzl. but our 

 plant is pubescent, coarser, has much wider and more 

 numerously nerved leaves. 



GUTTIFERAE 

 Cratoxylon arboreum Elm. n. sp. 



An erect forest tree. Stem 5 to 8 dm. thick, 20 m. 



