1648 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 85 



lamina only one half as long, 5 to 9 cm. wide across the 

 iniildle, velvety dark green above, a trifle paler beneath, 

 flat, membranous, drying blackish brown, escending but 

 recurved toward the sharply acuminate apex, entire, attenuate 

 toward the base, glabrous except for the few scattering 

 hairs on the nether side below the middle, oblong or broadly 

 oblanceolate; midvein edged benenth, the 10 lateral ones less 

 conspicuous though parallel; petiole erect or ascending, 1 

 dm. long, dark green, deeply caniculate, dirty puberulent 

 along the lower side, several from the same stem cluster, 

 alternating, expanded end sheathing at the base. Inflorescence 

 barely above ground, arising from the lower leaf axils, sub- 

 erect; peduncle very short or 1 to 2 cm. long, yellowish 

 brown hairy, ensiform or compressed; bracts whitish toward 

 the base, averaging 2 cm. long, nearly one half as broad 

 at the base, thinly membranous, broadly lanceolate, striately 

 veined, acuminate to caudate at apex, pubescent along the 

 margins and midvein on the nether side; flowers several 

 and scattered, not in dense heads, odorless, suberect, the tube 

 or beak pale white; ovary lanceolately elongated, soft hairy, 

 terminated into a 2 cm. long similarly pubescent beak or 

 perianth tube; perianth segments 6, rotately spreading, 7.5 

 mm. long, about 3 mm. wide across the middle, quite 

 veiny, oblongish, rounded or somewhat constricted at the 

 apex, glabrous except the middle region on the back and 

 the tuft of hairs at the apex, bright yellow, alternating 

 with small bract-like segments; stamens 6, alternating with 

 the larger segments, divaricately spreading; filaments glabrous, 

 3 mm. long, strongly curved and twisted; anther somewhat 

 compressed, as long as the filaments, with a thick back, 

 narrowly oblong, apex truncate and slightly notcl)ed, base 

 sagittately lobed, basifixed, 1 mm. wide, cell walls thin; 

 erect style thick and fleshy, glabrous, strongly curved and 

 twisted at the throat of the perianth, 5 mm. 1' m:, b'.ning 

 an irregular capitate slightly bristly stigma; ovtiles Mimerous, 

 stipitate, pendant from a central placenta; yt^urg fruit with- 

 out the stout beak 1.5 mm. long, 7.5 mm. thick, ovoidly 

 elongated, yellowish hairy, angular or subterete, white and 

 hecoiuing reddish brown, produced into a greenis^h neck 

 nearly 2.5 cm. long. 



