1394 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 71 
heavy, odorless and tasteless; bark thin, more or less provided 
with small grayish white flakes, brown lenticelled, green beneath 
the epidermis, with only a little watery latex; twigs lax, not 
numerous, the young portion covered with short deciduous hairs. 
Leaves alternate, mostly toward the ends of the twigs, char- 
taceous, brown when dry, ascending, recurved especially toward 
the tips, deeper green above, panduriform or oblanceolate, oblong- 
ish, diverse in size, the larger blades 17.5 cm. long by 5 em. 
wide well above the middle toward the apex, abruptly acute at 
apex, the basal two thirds conspicuously narrowed, obtusely 
rounded at the base, entire, margins subinvolute in the dry state, 
scabrous on both sides especially on the grayish upper surface; 
midvein prominent beneath, the lateral nerves below the middle 
short and divarieate, the upper ones oblique and curved toward 
their ends, 9 to 13 lateral pairs from base to apex, all densely 
hairy, reticulations relatively obscure; petioles 1 to 2 cm. long, 
pubescent, fluted along the upper side; bud bracts or stipules 
deciduous, nearly 1 em. long, brown, glabrous, sharply acu- 
minate. 
Receptacles solitary or in pairs from the leaf axils, in shape 
ovoidly elongated, densely covered with grayish white hairs. 
pale green and with small milk spots, becoming soft and pur- 
pureus and even jet black while still on the plant, about 1.5 
cm. long, 1 em. thick a trifle below the middle, sessile, usually 
subtended by 3 short hairy bracts, more elongated in the young 
state; umbilicus abruptly constricted into a flattened cone, 
more densely pubescent except the purplish tips of the inner 
slightly protruding scales, the inner transverse ones broad and 
irregular in shape; flowers gall and male only; the male flowers 
in the upper region of the syconium although occasional ones 
are found below the middle, mostly diandrous but some in the 
same fruit have 3 anthers, nearly 3 mm. long, the thin pedicel 
0.75 mm. long; perianth of 3 or 4 free segments, reddish brown 
when dry, purple when fresh, spoon shaped or more pointed, 
1.5 mm. long, attached 0.5 mm. below the anther; anther yellow, 
1 mm. long, about as broad, notched at both ends, upon 0.5 mm. 
long stalks; gall flowers similar except the perianth segments 
are longer and more acute; its ovary subglobose or short ellipsoid, 
Shining smooth; style sublateral, short, bearing a deep brown 
recurved stigma. 
