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greenish gray blotched, yellowish otherwise; main branches spread- 

 ing and crookedly rebranched, the rather rigid twigs horizontally 

 spreading, terete and glabrous. Leaves glabrous, not numerouB, 

 alternate, similarly spreading, curved upon the upper side, 

 chartaceous, duller green above, curing green, margins entire, 

 apex acute or subacucninate, base obtusely rounded, blades 

 15 cm. long and at the middle 4.5 cm. wide, oblong; mid- 

 vein bold beneath, also glabrous and green in the dry state; 

 lateral nerves 5 to 7 or with a few alternating ones inter- 

 vening, strongly curved, much less conspicuous, reticulations 

 equally visible from both sides; petiole 5 mm. long, rela- 

 tively thick, glabrous, with a broad groove oblong the upper 

 surface. Inflorescence ascending, axillary; flowers clustered at 

 the distal end of the 5 to 15 mtn. long subl igneous peduncles, 

 caducous; pedicel yellowish green, glabrous, 2 mm. long, sub- 

 tended at the base by a similarly colored rim-like bract, 

 with 1 to 3 obscure brown margined lobes; buds cremeus, 

 globose; perianth of 2 series, the outer 3 rotund and 3 mm. 

 across, the inner series nearly twice as long and as numerous 

 and broadly elliptic; ovary very pale yellow, flattish globose, 

 1.5 mm. across; style very short, bearing an obscurely lobed 

 stigma; stamens -5, inserted upon the inner basal portion 

 of the segments; filaments white, 1 mm. long, relatively 

 wide at the base; anther basifixed, ovate, shorter than the 

 filament, the two cells widely separated at the base. Fruit 

 hanging, hard, solid, ovoidly flattened, green but when 

 mitnre sulphureus, sessile. 



Type specimen number 139.37, A, D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sep- 

 tember, 1912. 



Discovered on a dry forested ridge at 3500 feet altitude 

 of Duros peak. The Manobos call it "Malagsac." 



The membranous leaves coupled with the subglobose 

 fruits usually with a sunken apex at once place it with 

 X. subglobosum Elm., but the leaves in our variety are elongated. 



