1390 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 71 
pad 
tasteless and odorless, with a green pith, ringed; bark smooth 
except the green hypodermis, easily stripping, the inner whitish 
portion without latex; branches ascending or suberect, numerous, 
slender, greenish to brown, even the young portion smoothish 
and glabrous. Leaves smooth, alternatingly scattered, copious, 
coriaceous, flat with strongly recurved apices, paler green be- 
neath, drying dull brown, pandurate, the average blades 7.5 cm. 
long, 3 em. wide above the middle, abruptly constricted across 
the middle, apex aeute, base obtuse or roundly so, entire, gla- 
brous, in general outline oblanceolately oblong; petiole ascend- 
ing, 1.5 em. long, olivaceus and occasionally brown scurfy; 
midvein quite prominent beneath and whitish when fresh, black- 
ish brown when dry; lateral nerves 3 to 5 pairs, the basal pair 
running parallel with the margin, the 2 or 3 other pairs mainly 
from above the middle, ascendingly curved especially toward 
their apices, reticulation coarse and obscure, all glabrous; bud 
bracts well under 1 em. long, sharply acuminate, brown, smooth 
and glabrous. 
Receptacle usually solitary in the leaf axils or in the 
axils of the fallen leaves, divaricate, glabrous in all stages, 
perfectly glaucus green when young which are more elongated 
than ovoidly subglobose, at all times conspicuously rugose or 
verrucose or pustulate, toward maturity nearly flavus and ul- 
timately becoming deep strawberry red while still attached to 
the plant, at all stages rather soft in texture and full of latex, 
1.5 em. long, 1.25 cm. thick below the middle; peduncle very 
short, at the distal end provided by 3 small bracts; umbilicus 
conically raised or abruptly constricted into a circular cone, 
nearly smooth, purplish even in the young state, covered over by 
flat scales, chiefly arising from the outside, the inner ones quite 
similar although thinner in texture; flowers gall and male only; 
male flowers mostly in the upper one half of the syconium al- 
though scattered clear to the base, diandrous; pedicels at least 
2 mm. long, weak, hyaline; perianth segments 3 or 4, free, deep 
reddish brown, 1.5 mm. long, oblanceolate, deeply folded upon 
the ventral side; anthers yellowish, nearly 1 mm. long, oblong, 
ends truncate, at the base at least emarginate; gall flowers mostly 
in the lower one half although scattered in the upper region 
as well, 2.5 mm. long; perianth longer and more sharply pointed, 
free nearly to the base; pedicel 1 mm. long, slender, pale yellow; 
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