.TuNJE 5, 1913] Philippine Poly os ma 1(>35 



minutely checked, otherwise sinoothish; branche? more or less 

 spreading, laxly rebranched, the ultimate ones suherect, grayish, 

 terete; young ponion of twigs ascendingly curved, roughened 

 by the lighter gray leaf scars, the green terminal ends oli- 

 vaceous puberulent. Leaves mostly toward the end of the 

 twigs, opposite, broad'.y lanceolate or oblongish, horizontals- 

 spreading but strongly recurved toward the slenderly acu- 

 minate to caudate apex, base subcuneate, glabrous, thinly 

 coriaceous, shining green above but curing nearly bhick, duller 

 and subglaucescent beneath even so in the dry state, entire, 

 the blades ranging from 5 to 8 cm. long and from 1.5 cm. 

 to 2.5 cm, wide across the middle; midvein prominent l)eneHth, 

 grooved along the upper side, the divaricate 10 to 15 la- 

 teral nerves very obscure; petiole slender, averaging at least 

 1 era. long, glabrous or pulverulent along the upper cani- 

 culate side. Inflorescence when in full flower fragrant, spi- 

 cate, terminal, solitary, erect, 3 to 5 cm. long or even twice 

 as long; peduncle green and puberulent, rather, st(mt and less 

 than one third the whole lenth, at the base subtended by a series 

 of linear pubescent 5 mm. long bracts; pedicel also green, 1.5 mm. 

 long, short brown pubescent; calyx a trifle longer, similarly pub- 

 escent, subtended by 4-apiculate bracts, the 4 teelli broadly tri- 

 angular and tomentose; petals of the same number, 7 mm. long, 1.5 

 mm. wide toward the base, linear, cinereous pul)escent especially 

 on the inner side, valvate and in the bud state appearing 

 creased, ultimately promiscuously spreading, the upper one half 

 only 1 mm. wide; stamens 4, alternating with the petals; erect 

 filaments strict, flattened, 3 mm. long, glabrous except the 

 hairy upper portion of the ventral side; anther somewhat 

 shorter, linear and nearly as wide as the filament, with 

 stout connections, the sacs laterally dehiscent; style 6 mm. 

 long, dark brown or nearly black, glabrous, wand-like, the 

 stigma slightly notched. Fruits upon 3 mm. long ascending 

 and pulverulent pedicels, perfectly globose, 4 mm. in diam- 

 eter, short pubescent but at maturity apparently nearly . 

 glabrous, bearing the subpersistent calyx teeth. 



Type specimen numbers 12437 and 12206, A. D. E. Elmer, 

 Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Sibuyan, 

 May and April, 1910. 



Found in reddish compact humus covered soil of a forest- 



