1260 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. IV, Arr. 67 
finely rebranched, the ultimate ones lax but not long; twigs 
suberect or rather ascendingly curved, the young portion scabrous; 
wood soft, light, pale white, without odor or taste, with prominent 
concentric rings; bark smooth, mottled with brown and grayish — * 
white. Leaves very numerous, chartaceous, equally rough on 
both sides but glabrous, slightly paler green beneath, ascending, 
nearly flat but with strongly recurved caudate tips and only shal- 
lowly conduplicate on the upper side, unequally sided and diverse 
in size, drying dull green especially the upper side, tips usually 
faleate, margins entire but with a tendency of curving upon the 
upper side while curing, lanceolately or oblanceolately oblong, 
larger blades 1 dm. long by 1.5 cm. wide across the middle, base 
obtuse or cuneate, gradually tapering toward the apex; milvein 
raised beneath, with short hispid hairs or rough tubercles; primary 
nerves 3 to 5 pairs, similar, the basal pair parallel with the 
margin, the upper ones ascendingly eurved, their tips strongly 
united, artieulations likewise very evident; petiole 3 to 5 mm. 
long, scaberulous; bud bract less than 5 mm. long, nearly smooth, 
very finely pointed. 
Receptacles solitary or in pairs from the leaf axils, obscure- 
ly obovoid, 1 em. long, at the base constricted into a peduncle- 
like stalk, slightly scabrous, green, with very minute whitish 
spots; umbilicus short conical, the aperture guarded by the 
inner bracts extending outward; peduncles green, 3 to 5 mm. 
long, provided toward the distal end with few very small bracts; 
inner umbilical scales white, oblongish, minutely ciliate on the 
edges, about 2 mm. long, inner surface of syconium white ciliate; 
flowers young, numerous, apparently all female, upon very short 
pedicels, 2 mm. long ,white except the ovule and stigma; perianth 
5-segmented to the base, the linear segments arranged in a 
whorl beneath the pistil, 1.5 mm. long, provided with fine slonder 
white hairs; ovary flattened, glabrous, obovoidly lenticular, 
1 mm. across, edged with a subhyaline crest; style similar in 
color and equal in length, laterally arising, suberectly curved 
and sparingly ciliate toward the stigma which is but a small 
brown capitate point. 
_ Type specimen 11651, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Discovered in fertile humus covered soil of dense forests 
