1406 | LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 72 
odorless and tasteless; old bark light or yellowish cinnamon brown, 
scaling in several layers of thin papery irregular plates; main 
branches arising from above the middle, the larger ones ascending, 
ultimately numerously rebranched; twigs slender, rather crooked, 
terete, gray, forming bushes. Leaves coriaceous, smooth, the 
acute to acuminate points strongly recurved, conduplicate on 
the upper deeper green surface, drying avellaneus on both sides, 
oppositely scattered but mostly toward the ends of the twigs, 
margins entire and not involute, oblong or broadly fusiform in 
shape, base acute to subcuneate, the average blades 1 dm. long 
by 4 em. wide aross the middle or widest portion; the prominent 
midvein shallowly sunken on the upper side; lateral pairs 7 to 
9, the faint basal pair submarginal, the balance oblique and their 
tips archingly united 2 to 3 mm. from the edge, reticulations fine 
but nearly obscure; petiole at least 5 mm. long, caniculate along 
the upper side. Inflorescence chiefly along the branchlets below 
the foliage, 5 em. long or less, divaricate, usually opposite; 
peduncle solitary or 3-branched from near the base, regularly 
rebranched from below the middle, terete, smooth and glabrous, 
shining green in the fresh state; secondary branches similar, 
oecasionally rebranched; divarieately spreading; flowers usually : 
in 3's, occasionally in pairs, seldom solitary, odorless, sessile from 
the distal ends of the ultimate branchlets; calyx yellowish 
green, 1 em. long and as broad across the top, the basal one third 
narrowly constricted, otherwise broadly turbinate, more or less 
glandular spotted, terete; the 4 calyx lobes thick, nearly equal, 
4 mm. broad, 2 to 3 mm. high, broadly obtuse or rounded, well 
separated; petals of an equal number, cremeus, orbicular or | 
obovately oblong, at the base constricted into a very short and 
broad thick claw, thinner and eglandular at the marginal portion, 
otherwise glandular; stamens indefinite, creamy white, glabrous, 
crinkled and interlaced, dark brown when dry, 1 em. long, unequal 
in Jength, apical portion very thin; anther yellowish, ovately 
oblong, compressed, 0.75 mm. long, attached on the back below 
the middle; style terete, 1.5 em. long, minutely glandular, 
terminated by a dark green stigma, yellowish white toward 
the base, pale white in the dry state; cup smooth and yel- 
lowish. 
~ Type specimen 11571, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distrie of om Mindanao, August, 1909. 
