1500 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 75 
wood moderately hard, only the thin sapwood white, otherwise 
reddish brown, light, fine to work, odorless and tasteless; bark 
dull grayish brown, when old scaling in small rather thick plates, 
light yellow beneath the epidermis, otherwise latericius. Leaves 
rigid, descending, lucid and much darker green on the upper more 
or less folded side, alternatingly arranged along the twigs, gla- 
brous, entire, very unequal in size, narrowly oblong, the larger 
or normal blades 2 dm. long by 5 em. wide at the middle, obtuse 
at apex, base subeuneate, drying greener on the upper surface; 
midvein very conspicuous on both sides especially so toward 
the base, smooth and glabrous; lateral nerves relatively faint, as- 
cending and only slightly curved, about 15 pairs, their tips anas- 
tomosing, reticulations numerous and quite conspicuous beneath; 
petiole subterete or compressed, glaucus, glabrous, only toward 
the widened base grooved on the upper side, 3 to 5 cm. long. 
Inflorescence erect, terminal, heavy and somewhat succulent, 
limp, all the stalks glabrous and greenish, drying nearly black, 
panieulately branched from the base, 1 to 2.5 dm. long; the slender 
branches subtended by caducous small bracts, very shortly re- 
branched; flowers white or ereamy white, odorless, more or less 
alternatingly clustered upon the distal ends of the short scatter- 
ing branchlets; pedicels slender, not exceeding 5 mm. in length, 
subtended by glabrous and sharply acuminate bracts; calyx also 
glabrous, imbricate, 2.5 mm. long, erect, united at the base, 
. ovate, acutely pointed, the inner ones slightly smaller and folded, 
deeply spoon shaped, 1.5 mm. wide below the middle, greenish; 
petals 3.5 mm. long, ovately oblong, gradually tapering to the 
acute or obtusely rounded apex, margins usually rolled upon 
the inner surface, conspicuously veiny in the middle portion, 
glabrous, white, with a small group of glandular thickenings on 
the veins upon the middle portion of the ventral side, free; stamen 
solitary, inserted upon an obscurely lobed much thickened ovary 
disk; filament 1.5 mm. long, glabrous, compressed at the base 
and gradually tapering from base to apex; anther subelliptic, 
0.75 mm. long, dorsifixed; ovary glabrous and smooth, slightly 
oblique, 1.25 mm. thick; style terete, also glabrous, arising sub- 
terminally, 2 mm. long. 
Type specimen 12334, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
 Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
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