1456 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 73 
high, branched toward the top mainly; wood odorless and taste- 
less, moderately soft; bark smooth or finely and irregularly 
checked, mottled, with an abundance of latex; twigs numerous, 
lax, shining, brown, the glabrous green ultimate portion turning 
black while drying. Leaves coriaceous, also ascending, shal- 
lowly folded upon the upper very deep green and lucid surface, 
paler green beneath, glabrous, drying unequally brown on the 
upper and lower sides, the otherwise entire margins somewhat 
wavy, lanceolate, the acuminate apices recurved, base cuneate 
or attenuate, occasionally a trifle faleate, the average blades 1 
dm. long by 2 em. wide a trifle below the middle, frequently much 
smaller, opposite, numerous; mid vein conspicuous and brown 
beneath; lateral nerves 5 to 7, divaricate, very obscure, forked 
or arching toward the ends, reticulations few and nearly obsolete; 
petiole 1 em. long, angular. Inflorescence arising terminally, 
eventually appearing between the branches, umbellately clus- 
tered upon a very short and stout peduncle; calyx 1 cm. long, 
green, the upper 2 mm. campanulate and fully as wide, otherwise 
slender and glabrous; segments 5, united at the base, ovately 
oblong, imbricate, straight, puberulent especially along the . 
edges, obtuse at tip; corolla creamy white, tube 5 mm. long, 
flask shaped, 3 mm. thick just below the middle, retrorsely 
hairy below the stamens; segments 5, rotately spreading, 1 cm. 
long, ovately lanceolate, finely hairy especially on the upper 
side toward the base, 3 mm. wide below the middle, usually with 
a few glands on the upper basal portion; stamens 5, erect, upon 
the throat of the corolla, subsessile; anthers flattened, 1.5 mm. 
long, 0.75 mm. wide at the base, slightly tapering to the irregu- 
larly truncate apex, connective glandularly thickened on the 
back near the base, on the middle ventral side with 1 or 2 woolly 
glands; pistil greenish; ovary glabrous, subglobose, 1.5 mm. 
in diameter; style very slender, 5 mm. long, also glabrous, usually 
curved; stigma 1 mm. long, thickened, obscurely ringed at the 
base. 
Hou "Type specimen 12203, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
m Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
we 
a w red N xem of a forested bench at 1250 feet altitude. 
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