1466 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 73 
root cluster, 1.25 em. thick at least, 1 to 2 m. high, branched 
toward the top only; wood quite hard and tough, white, with- 
out odor or taste; bark gray, with lighter gray lenticels, the 
hypodermis green, brown, smooth and minutely checked on the 
branches; twigs rebranched, very flexible, the young green portion 
glabrous. Leaves oppositely scattered along the branchlets, 
mostly descending, coriaceous, glabrous, drying dull green or yel- 
lowish so beneath, folded upon the upper much deeper green sur- 
face, the abruptly acute to acuminate tips recurved, otherwise flat, 
very unequal in size, obtuse to acute at base, the dry entire mar- 
gins subinvolute, elliptic to oblongish, the larger blades 1 dm. 
long by one half as wide across the middle, frequently only 3 
em. long, the young ones drying reddish brown; midvein con- 
spicuous beneath, caniculate above; the lateral pairs about 7, 
divaricate, slightly curved, tips strongly curved and faintly 
united, reticulations fine and rather obscure; petiole 5 mm. 
long, also glabrous, widely furrowed along the upper side. In- 
florescence terminal, always dividing the branches, green even 
in the buds, subglabrous, 1 to 2 em. long, with few cymose pan- 
iculate branches from below the middle, the solitary peduncle 
very short; branehlets subtended and provided with ample 
bracts; these are persistent, glabrous, yellowish green, sharply 
pointed; pedieels 1 to 3 mm. long, subtended by bracteoles; 
flowers erect and odorless; calyx glabrous, the basal 1 or more 
mm. stipitate, subtended by a pair of bracteoles, the segmented 
portion 2 mm. long, erect and quite rigid, imbricate, straight 
lobes ovately obtuse, united at the base; corolla also united 
about the base, 5-lobed, glabrous, 6 mm. long by one half as 
wide, oblongish, fleshy; appendaged in the sinus of the segments, 
sulphureus, the upper side overlaid with a rugose fleshy red 
membrane except around the apical portion, nearly flat and 
usually twisted, finely pulverulent on the dorsal side; stamens 
5, yellow, erect in a column, inserted upon the throat; anthers 
subsessile, subterete, nearly 1 mm. wide, linear, truncate at both 
ends, ventrally dehiscent above the middle, the connective toward 
the base much thickened or ridged on the upper side, with a 
whitish excrescence on the ventral side a trifle above the mid- 
dle; ovary globosely conical, glabrous; style whitish, 3 mm. 
long, with a 1 mm. long stigma which is constricted at about the 
| middle, terete, thickened toward the stigmatic base; pods in pair, 
