1402 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Anr. 72 
or rigidly coriaceous, the entire margins strongly curved upon the 
under side, the abruptly acute to an acuminate apex recurved, 
folded upon the upper bright green surface, much paler beneath, 
base acute to obtuse, the larger blades 9 cm. long by 4 em. wide 
across the middle and oblongish or obovately so, frequently 
smaller and obovate or broadly lanceolate; midrib raised beneath, h 
sunken on the upper side; lateral nerves relatively very faint, [ 
7 to 9 pairs, oblique and slightly curved toward their ends, more 
or less archingly united 3 mm. from the edge, reticulations 
minute and obscure; petiole 5 to 8 mm. long, canieulate. In- 
florescence caniculate, profuse, terminal and from the uppermost 
leaf axils, much exceeding the foliage, erect, 5 to 15 cm. long, 
branched from the base and usually subtended by small leaves; 
branches opposite, angular, thick, the basal or larger ones few, 
rebranched toward the distal ends, all articulate and subtended 
by very blunt rather conspicuous bracts with thin brown margins; 
flowers 3-clustered from the ends of the very short and thick 
ultimate branchlets, sessile, subtended by a whorl of similar 
bracts, odorless; calyx turbinate, 4.5 mm. long, nearly as wide 
at the top including the segments, obscurely angular, coarsely y 
and obscurely punctate; segments 4, subequal, 2 mm. broad, 7 
1.5 mm. high, ascending, persistent, few glandular punctate 
except toward the thin entire edge; petals imbricately overlaid, 
ultimately reflexed and early falling or calyptrately becoming 
detached, unequal in size and shape but usually rotund, veins 
and pellucid glands relatively few, 3 to 4 mm. across; stamens 
indefinite, inwardly bent in the early state; filament 5 mm. long, 
the inner ones somewhat shorter, subterete, gradually thickened 
toward the base, tips pointed; anthers 0.75 mm. long, ovoidly 
oblong or ellipsoid, dorsally attached in the sinus of the short 
basal lobes; style arising from the bottom of the thick calyx 
rim, 5 mm. long, terete, gradually tapering from the base to the 
minute capitate stigma. | 
Type specimen 11594, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), ia 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 1 
In the humid mount Apo forested basin at 6000 feet 1 
altitude. i 
Very near to E. curtiflora Elm. but inflorescence profuse, ‘ 
terminal and exceeding the foliage. Leaves more numerously and : 
less prominently nerved. The flowers are also smaller. 
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