1248 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 67 
wrinkled in the dry state, yellowish gray, more or less lenticelled, 
glabrous; wood soft, coarsely grained; bark grayish white mottled. 
Leaves alternatingly scattered but chiefly toward the ends, ca- 
ducous, leaving large oval scars, rigidly coriaceous, smooth and 
glabrous, nearly flat, apex abruptly terminating into a sharp 
acute 1 cm. long recurved point, base obtusely to truncately 
rounded and with minute auricular lobes, entire, elliptically 
oblong, the larger blades 2 dm. long by 1 dm. wide across the 
middle; midvein very bold beneath, smooth and glabrous, canic- 
ulate along the upper side; the primary 7 to 9 lateral pairs as- 
cending especially the subbasal pair, similar in boldness and 
vestiture, ascendingly curved and interarching toward and 
with their ends, articulations quite evident; petioles very stout, 
subcompressed, glabrous, green, striate along the upper side; 
bud bract deciduous, very rigid, folded, 2 em. long, smooth and 
brown on the inner side, densely velvety on the outer exposed por- 
tion, triangularly oblong and terminating in an acuminate point. 
Receptacle sclitary or in pairs of the leaf axils, truncate at 
the ends especially the upper end, 3 em. long, 2 cm. thick, dull 
deep red and sprinkled with lighter red lenticels, sessile or nearly 
so; bracts 3, rotately spreading, green, rigid, ovately triangular, 
united at their bases, 5 to 7.5 mm. long, smooth, the central 
basal portion usually developed into 2 bosses or umbos which 
seem to cleave around the branchlet to which the receptacle is 
attached; umbilicus flat, covered over by 2 or 3 small rigid scales, 
most of the inner scales transversely overlapping, rigil, broad 
and irregular; flowers male and gall only; the male flowers scat- 
tered throughout the upper one half of the syconium, 4 mm. 
lcng; its pedieel yellow, curved, nearly 2 mm. long by 1 mm. 
thiek; the single anther eovered over by a dark brownish red 
and rigid perianth, 1.25 mm. long, cordately ovate in shape, with 
a rigid nearly black connective; gall flowers upon shorter pedicels; 
the ovary covered by a similar perianth, reddish brown; young 
style 1.5 mm. long, brown, terminated into a linear nearly black 
stigmatie portion; all flowers at least when young subtended 
by linear bracts upon the syconium. 
Type specimen 11956, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
On rock ledges along the Sibulan river at 2750 feet. The 
Bagobos call it ‘‘Ucong.” 
