1510 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 75 
vately oblong or even elliptic, the larger blades 15 em. long and 
5 em. wide, frequently smaller; midvein yellowish brown beneath, 
prominently raised, yellow, glandular, grooved along the upper 
side; lateral nerves 7 to 9 pairs, subdivaricate, their tips archingly 
united, occasionally secondary ones intervening, reticulations 
quite evident especially from beneath; petiole varying from 5 to : 
25 mm. long, strictly ascending, shallowly grooved along the upper 
side, glandular along the lower side. Inflorescence in the terminal 
axils, 1 to 2 em. long, suberect, subverticellately branched from 
above the middle; peduncle strict, striate, glandular and very 
finely puberulent, the short branches subtended by blunt sparsely 
einereous bracts, the larger ones occasionally rebranched; pedicels 
2 to 3 mm. long, subtended by similar bracteoles; calyx glabrous, 
rather broad at the base, yellow glandular, irregularly 4-lobed or 
obtusely apiculate, 2 mm. wide, only one half as high, persistent; 
petals 4, the 2 pairs equal in length but not in width, deciduous, 
2.5 mm. long, glabrous except the beard toward the basal portion 
on the ventral side, ovately oblong or the inner 2 narrowly oblong, 
punctate on the outer sides; stamens 4, erect, inserted upon the fà 
thickened ovary rim; filaments 2 mm. long, glabrous, flattened, "] 
tapering from the base to the minute point; anther elliptically l 
oblong, 0.75 mm. long, dorsifixed; ovary pale yellow, obscurely : 
4-lobed, glandular, 1.25 across, truncate at the top; style terete, ; 
1 mm. long, strict, hairy toward the base, reddish brown as are 
also the filaments in the dry state; stigma slightly larger; fruit 
suberect, dark green, 3 to 5-pointed, glabrate, strongly veined on 
the sides, 6 mm. long by 3 mm. wide, elongate lenticular, more or 
less ridged along the edges, rounded at both ends, dehiscing along 
the upper suture, subtended by the persistent calyx, containing 
a shining black ellipsoidly elongated seed. 
Type specimen 12562, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910; 
also number 12306 from the same locality. ; 1 
Collected in red compact soil of moist woods or forests at * | 
1250 feet elevation. The Visayan name for the latter number : 
is ‘‘Alibot-bot.” : 
. As to our Philippine species it is nearest to E. monophylla 
Merr. but flowers greenish white instead of pink, leaves more 
 membranous, inflorescence entirely different and with larger 
flowers. 
