1282 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 68 
black heartwood; bark thick, brown except the smooth gray 
epidermis; branches widely spreading, laxly rebranched, the young l 
twigs at first cupreus scurfy. Leaves few, at the ends of the short È 
crooked twigs, subchartaceous, horizontally spreading, flat and 
recurved toward the gradually acute to acuminate points, whitish 
beneath but covered with minute copper colored scales, dull ' 
dark green above, drying greenish, exceedingly variable in size, 
ovately or occasionally broadly lanceolate, oblong, base usually 
rounded, entire, the larger blades 1 dm. long, 4 em. wide a trifle 
below the middle; midvein very prominent beneath, cupreus 
lepidote, grooved above; lateral nerves 3 to 5 on a side, ascend- 
ingly curved, tips gradually reduced, becoming obsolete, reticula- 
tions visible from the upper side; petiole varying from 1 to 3 cm. 
long, grooved along the upper side, cupreus scaly; bud bracts 
numerous, 5 mm. long, acuminate, thick, also cupreus scurfy. 
Male spike axillary, nearly 2 cm. long, the stout pedicels sub- 
tended by bract vestiges, all densely covered with copper colored 
scales; female flowers usually solitary at the end of the 0.75 to 
1.5 em. long rather stout stalks which as inthe male spike is sub- 
tended by a whorl of similar or bud-like bracts; ovary brown, scale ! 
covered; stigmas 3, brown, not scaly, sessile, recurved, forked; 
buds of male globose; pedicels short and thick, subtended by a 
rigid bract; perianth of a double series; the outer series thick- 
ly scurfy on the outside, the margins composed of hyaline scales, 
3 mm. long, united below the middle, parting into 5 segments, 
with obtuse apices; the inner series of 5 nearly free segments 
much thinner, 2 mm. long, oblong, with broad hyaline and slight- 
ly fimbriate margins, pubescent toward the base especially on the 
upper side; stamens at least 10, clustered from the middle; fila- 
ments 3 mm. long, soft white pubescent about their bases, 
otherwise glabrous, yellowish green, when dry reddish brown; 
anthers yellow, oval or broadly elliptic, nearly 1 mm. long, fully 
as wide, basifixed, the granular connective broad and flattened, 
anther dehiscing along the edges; fruits flattish globose, nearly 
1 em. across, similarly lepidote, 3-celled and 3-seeded. 
Type specimen 13236, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
Collected in seepage rock crevices on very steep only slight- 
ly wooded mountain flanks along the Iwahig river at 1000 
feet. 
