1328 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. IV, Arr. 70 
main branches from below the middle; wood solid, hard, nearly 
cremeus, odorless, bitterish, scaling in very thin plates or smooth 
and with a green hypodermis; branches ultimately numerously 
rebranched, widely spreading, the suberect twigs very lax, the 
young portion olivaceusly bristly. Leaves exceedingly variable 
in size, chiefly clustered at the ends of the branchlets, opposite, 
rotately or horizontally spreading, soft membranous, deeper 
green above, greenish brown when dry, the very short obtuse 
tips recurved, otherwise flat or nearly so, base obtusely rounded 
or subtruncate, the smaller leaves oblong, the larger ones rotund, 
hairy especially beneath, the larger blades 1 dm. long by 6 cm. 
wide across the middle; midvein prominent beneath, soft and 
densely pubescent; lateral pairs very oblique, their strongly 
curved tips more or less united, similarly pubescent, cross 
bars and reticulations faint yet evident; petiole 5 to 7.5 mm. 
long, pubescent; stipules 1.25 em. long, soft hairy, setaceously 
acuminate. Inflorescence axillary, ascending upon 1 to 3 em. 
long very slender olivaceus peduncles; flowers usually 3-clus- 
tered at the ends, the middle or central flower sessile, the later- 
al ones pedicellate, subtended by bristly hair-like bracts; calyx 
soft pubescent, 5 mm. long, the basal portion obscurely con- 
stricted and bristly hairy; the 4 teeth sharply acuminate, also 
pubescent on the outer side, subpersistent; corolla ochraceus, 
appressed pubescent on the outside, tubular, gradually narrowed 
toward the base, terete, nearly 1 em. long; lobes 4, ovately 
obtuse, 2 mm. long or less, glabrous on the upper side; stamens 
4, included just below the throat, filaments glabrous and very 
short; anthers 2.25 mm, long, linear, rounded at their ends; 
style terete, glabrous, the stigmatic portion forked; fruits usually 
solitary from the distal ends of the very slender and olivaceus 
peduncles, sessile, 1.5 em. long at least, bristly in the young state, 
when old nearly glabrous, shining lividus, juicy, angular, trun- 
cately rounded at both ends, subtended by the persistent bracts; 
calyx also persistent with its teeth or lacinae, 7.5 mm. across. 
Type specimen 12968, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
In shallow red soil overlaid on a sheet of gravel stones in 
humid woods or forests at 250 feet. 
This number is at once distinguished from 13237 or the pre- 
ceding species which I allow to pass as A. philippinensis (Benth.) 
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