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1378 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 71 
a few stems from the same root cluster and only 2 to 5 em. thick, 
3 to 5 m. high, ascending, branched from below the middle; 
wood soft, whitish, odorless and tasteless, with a large pith; 
bark smooth, gray, with but very little latex; branches slender, 
the ultimate ones ascending, the tips green and hispidly covered 
with hairs dirty brown in color. Leaves usually opposite, toward 
the ends of the twigs, mainly horizontal, flat with recurved tips, 
paler green beneath, chartaceous, diverse in size, oblanceolately 
oblong, apex abruptly acuminate, base rounded or subauriculate 
when dry, grayish black on the upper scabrous and minutely 
hispid surface, brown on the less scabrid and more pubescent 
nether side, the average blade nearly 2 dm. long and 7.5 em. 
wide above the middle, below the middle gradually narrowed, 
yentire except the fine serrulations toward and at the apex; mid- 
vein conspicuous beneath, with 7 to 9 ascendingly curved lateral 
nerves on each side, cross bars relatively obscure, all densely 
covered with hispid hairs; stipules persistent, thin, brown, acu- 
minate, 2 em. long by 7.5 mm. wide at the base, only the middle 
dorsal portion hairy; bud bracts similar; petiole at least 1.5 em. 
long or equalling the stipules, striate, densely hispid. 
Receptacle forming dense fascicles along the stem chiefly, 
although occasionally occurring upon the exposed roots; clusters 
diverse, from 5 to 20 em. across, bearing a few figs or dense mas- 
ses of them; tubercles branched, rather thick, quite rigid, 
roughened with rings and dry scales; fruits dark blood red on the 
outside of dense clusters, light red on their inner sides, obovoid 
in outline, cuneately tapering at the base, 2.5 em. across, sparsely 
sprinkled with whitish lenticels, conspicuously ridged or sulcate 
from base to apex which is truncate and sunken and has minor 
ridges connecting the main ridges with the umbilicus, only 
sparsely provided with whitish hispid hairs; peduncle more densely 
hispid, at the base subtended by a whorl of bract-like scales, at 
the apex bearing 3 short acute bracts, 5 to 8 mm. long; umbilicus 
- sunken or at least not raised, radially rugose, covered with flat 
scales, the inner scales broadly ovate and submembranous; 
flowers male and gall only; male flowers quite numerous around 
the umbilicus, monandrous, the subgamophyllous perianth reddish 
. brown and completely encasing the anther which is ovately 
 eordate in shape and nearly 1 mm. in length; gall flowers scat- 
tered, 4 mm. long, upon 2 mm. long pedicels; perianth reddish 
