1472 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY |Vor. IV, Arr. 74 
middle, frequently smaller, obtusely rounded at both ends, entire, 
flat, ascending, rigidly coriaceous, much paler or lighter green be- 
neath, curing dull green, glabrate or minutely scurfy or finely 
pulverulent; petiole 1 em. long, when young pulverulent, ulti- 
mately glabrous and finely verrucose; midvein brown in the 
dry state, prorhinent beneath, nearly glabrous in the old leaves; 
lateral nerves of 7 to 9 primary pairs, tips anastomosing, relat- 
ively faint, retieulations fine and quite conspicuous from both 
sides. Inflorescence paniculately racemose, terminal or from the 
uppermost leaf axils, striet, erect or ascending, less than 1 dm. 
long, frequently only 5 em. long, branched from the middle or 
toward the distal end; branches few and short, only sparingly 
rebranched, finely scurfy or pulverulent as is also the strict pe- 
duncle; pedicel straight and slender, 5 mm. long or much less, 
ashy gray pulverulent; flowers faintly but sweetly fragrant, 
dirty yellowish green on the outer organs; calyx valvate, 5 mm. 
long, 3 mm. thick, erect and tubular in shape, green and cov- 
ered with a yellowish gray pulverulence, united toward the base; 
the 5 segments 3 mm. long, narrowly oblong or ligulate, obtusely 
rounded at apex, 1.5 mm. wide, occasionally some of them are 
smaller in size, erect at first, ultimately reflexed; corolla in the 
bud state tubular, imbricate but straight or nearly so, 1.25 em. 
long, 3 mm. thick; segments pure white, very finely puberulent 
on the outer exposed sides, glabrous on the ventral surface, 
obtusely rounded at both ends, strap-like or narrowly oblong, 
4 mm. wide, the inner side subincurved and glabrous along the 
outer edge; stamens 15, in 2 series, upon short somewhat flattened 
and base expanded glabrous filaments, 5, inserted upon the inner 
basal portion of the 5 petals, the balance in pairs of one above 
the other, inserted upon the basal portion of the calyx surround- 
ing the ovary, the upper ones upon filaments twice as long as the 
lower ones; anthers oblong, 0.75 mm. long, all alike, the connective 
ending in a fine obtuse or mucronate point, somewhat flattened, 
ellipsoid from the side view, also glabrous; ovary one half im- 
mersed, the upper free portion conical and merely puberulent, 
toward the base distinctly 5-rugose, with 3 large ovules; style 
and stigma 1.5 mm. long, strict, the latter somewhat thickened 
or capitate. 
Type specimen 12963, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
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