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1)1- Jes? rounded and acutely pointed, the larger blades 1 

 dni. lung but usually smaller, 3 to 5 cm. wide above the 

 middle, shinny and glabrous on the upper Ant side, densely 

 olivaceous or velvety tomentose i)eneath, tips recurved, al- 

 ternatingly scattered; mar^'ins entire, coarsely wrinkled in 

 the dry state, somewhat recurved in the fresh state; midvein 

 prominent beneath and velvety hairy, glabrous and impressed 

 on the upper side; nerves very obscuie, 15 to 20 can be 

 co\nite<l on each side, irregularly scattered; petiole thick, 3 

 n)m. long, pubescent. Inflorescence in several flowered clus- 

 ters, axillary or along the twigs, odorless, deciiluous, greenish, 

 suberect, densely tomentose, sessile or arising from short 

 common stalks, subtended by minute hairy bracts; pedicels 

 3 to 5 mm. long, pubescent, yellowish green ; perianth nearly 

 1 cm. long, 3 mm. thick, airailariy pubescent, terminated- 

 by o rotately spreading lobes; segments 3.6 mm. long, ellip- 

 tic, puberulent on both sides, yellow; scaler 10, with a 

 fair opposite each perianth segment, erect, exerted, bearing 

 rt dense brush of hairs; stamens also 10, subsessilely inserted 

 aroun<l the upper portion of the tube and immediately 

 l>eneath the scales, alternating and opposite with the 5 pairs 

 of scales; anther broadly oblong or obovoidly so, 1.5 mm. 

 long; ovary thickly clavate, pulverulent, 5 mm. long, 1.5 

 mm. thick above the middle, bearing a sessile darker 

 brown rugose stigma. Fruit a bright yellow or citrinus cap- 

 sule, 15 mm. long, at least 10 mm. thick, subtruncate at 

 both ends, 2-celled and 2-8eeded, strongly impressed on two 

 sides, subtended by the calyx vestige. 



Type specimen number 13566, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, August, 

 1912. 



Discovered in moist compact soil of wooded ridges leading 

 up to the sumit of Duros peak at 400(J feet elevation. 

 Riither commoni The natives or Manobos call it "Agododan," 



This species though closely related to G. cumingiana 

 puhescens Elm. is not indentical with it. 



