1278 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 68 
base, the larger blades obovately oblong, 1.5 dm. long by 6 em. 
wide above the middle, the smaller blades oblongish; midvein 
yellowish brown, smooth, prominently raised beneath, also 5 
quite evident from the upper side; lateral nerves 5 to 7 on each 
side, very oblique, tips curved, cross bars and reticulations very 
faint; petiole glabrous, strict, from 1 to 3 cm. long, thickened 
at both ends; bud bracts 7.5 mm. long, brown, sharply acute, 
hairy along the dorsal median line. Inflorescence spicate, clus- 
tered from the axils of the lower leaves or from beneath the 
foliage, 3 to 8 em. long, descendingly curved, the rachis greenish 
white and puberulent, flower bearing from below the middle 
to apex; flowers cremeus or sulphureus, odorless, usually few 
clustered upon a short common stalk which are at the base 
subtended by small bracteoles, pedicels also very short, all 
finely puberulent; perianth glabrous, globose in the bud state; 
segments 4, thick, oblong to elliptic, 2.5 mm. long, tips incurved, 
united at the base into a 1 to 2 mm. long pedicel or stalk; stamens 
5, circled about a sterile ovary; filaments very short, glabrous; 
anthers composed of 2 pill-like sacs, at least 0.5 mm. wide, only 
0.25 mm. high, laterally dehiscent, basifixed, auriculately lobed í 
at the base, emarginate at apex; infrutescence pendant upon 
reddish 1 dm. long spikes; drupes juiey, ovoidly globose, 7.5 
to 1.25 mm. long, green except the reddish brown exposed sides, 
2-ovulate but usually only 1 maturing, shining, bearing the sub- 
sessile brown stigma, upon 3 mm. long slender pedicels; seed 
surrounded by a deep lilacinus membrane, ovoidly compressed, 
attached at the apex. 
Type specimens 12704 for flower and 13089 for fruit, A. 
D. E. Elmer, the former from Brooks Point (Addison Peak), 
the latter from Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, February 
and April respectively, 1911. 
Both plants were discovered in moist slightly sandy earth 
of wooded stream banks at about 500 feet altitude. Rare and 
called **Girangan" by the natives or Tagbanuas at Brooks Point. 
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CYCLOSTEMON Bim. 
Cyclostemon iwahigensis Elm. n. sp. 
A slender erect tree; stem 1.5 dm. thick, 8 m. high, sub- 
