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minate apex, base rounded or broadly obtuse, the bud leaves 

 fulvus hairy, elliptic or oblong, elliptic, glabrous except the 

 few scattering hairs along the midrib and principal nerves, 

 the larger blades 1 dm. long and 3.5 cm. wide at the 

 middle, the young ones very light green; midrib sparsely 

 strigose beneath, the 5 or 6 lateral ascendingly curved nerves 

 less prominent beneath, reticulations obscure; petiole 3 mm. 

 long at most, very thick for its length, caniculate, strigose 

 when young, ultimatley glabrous. Inflorescence nearly leaf- 

 opposed; flowers usually few clustered, odorless, descending; 

 pedicel rufus pubescent, 3 to 5 mm. long, subtended toward 

 the base by unequal yet similarly pubescent bracts, arising 

 from the distal end of a 5 to 8 mm. long peduncle; ca- 

 lyx 2 mm. wide, 1.6 mm. long, green, short or broadly 

 ovate, united at the base and in anthesis rotately spreading, 

 strigosely hairy on the outer side, pellucid punctate on the 

 inner surface, persistent; petals 6, very unequal; the outer 3 

 similar to calyx segments, broadly ovate, 4.5 mm. long, fully 

 i as wide, recurved in anthesis, finely strigose on the back and 

 on the apical portion of the inner side, also pellucid punctate, 

 distinctly several veined, deciduous; the 3 inner petals erect 

 and overarching the sex organs, ochraceus, 6 mm. long, the 

 basal two thirds stipitate, expanded at the distal end into 

 a 3 mm. wide rhombic lamina, subglabrous except the apical 

 marginal pubescent region, punctate, thick and leathery; re- 

 ceptacle flattened, barely wider than 1 mm., bearing 6 pis- 

 tillate flowers, hairy especially around the edge; ovary pale 

 yellow, hairy, 1 dm. long, ovoid and compressed toward the 

 apex on the ventral side, terminated by a darker colored 

 subcapitate sessile stigma. Young fruits linearly elongated, 

 4 cm. in length, subterete, glaucous green and nearly glabrous. 



Type specimen number 13985, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabadbaran 

 (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 1912. 



Found in loose well drained and humus covered ground of 

 a steep forested ravine at 1250 feet altitude. "Pamohogan" 

 in Manobo. 



It is at a glance related to Orophea unguiculata Elm. The out- 

 er petals are too long to be classed under Orophea, yet the linear 

 young fruits are more of an Orophea character than of a Mi' 

 trephora. 



