1396 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Anr. 71 
spicuously grained, odorless and tasteless; bark quite thick, grayish 
brown, roughened with numerous blunt excrescences, the inner 
layer contains latex; branches freely rebranched, the ultimate 
ones rather slender and with suberect tips, the young portion 
finely scurfy. Leaves few, flat except the recurved tips, thinly 
coriaceous, very dark deep green above, much paler green be- 
neath, horizontally spreading, strongly whitish nerved on the 
under side, alternate, usually toward the ends of the twigs, drying 
brown, entire, abruptly acute at apex, oblong or elliptic, with 
the widest portion above the middle, base obtuse or rounded and 
usually perceptibly inequilateral, of diverse sizes, the larger 
blades 2 dm. long, one half that across the widest portion; lateral 
nerves 5 to 8 on a side, oblique, rather straight, brown and smooth, 
less prominent than the midvein, the basal pair more oblique 
and subopposite, cross bars faint; petiole 1 to 3 em. long, also 
glabrous, becoming gray when old, stout; bud bracts 2.5 cm. 
long, quite broad below the middle, the apical portion slenderly 
acuminate, brown, cinereous on the back. 
Receptacle in pairs and pendant from the uppermost leaf 
axils, occasionally grouped upon very short tubercles along the 
under side of the larger branches, obovoidly ellipsoid but more 
tapering toward base, 2.5 cm. long, shining deep green espe- 
cially so toward the apex, spotted with milk spots; peduncle 
similar in color, 1.5 em. long, at the distal end provided with 3 
sharply triangularly brown bracts up to 5 mm. long; umbilicus 
abruptly raised, circular, provided with imbricately arranged 
tips of the inner bracts, the inner ones obcuneate with subhya- 
line margins and a conspicuous brown midvein; flowers ap- 
parently male and gall only; male flowers arranged in a few 
concentric rows immediately beneath the umbilical scales, mo- 
nandrous, 2 mm. long, the pedicel one half of that length, the 
light brown perianth covering the anther ultimately becoming 
3-segmented; anther oblong, 1 mm. long, curved, attached to a 
short thick dark brown connective stalk; gall pedicels 1.5 mm. 
long, slender, reddish brown; ovary about as long, similarly 
colored, obovoidly ellipsoid with a short oblique style bearing an 
expanded stigmatic portion, the younger or undeveloped flowers 
shorter, with longer styles and compressed ovaries. 
Type specimen 12776, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
