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ly rounded apex, base shallowly auriculate, very dark green 

 and glabrous above, subglabrous beneath even in the dry 

 state, margin entire and subinvohite in the dry state, alter- 

 nate, the young ones puberulent beneath but with edge gla- 

 brous, oblong, 8 to 12 cm. long, 3 to 4.5 era. wide; petiole 

 5 mm. long or shorter, at first hairy, ultimately glabrous, 

 relatively thick; raidvein prominent beneath and grooved above, 

 reddish brown and usually strigose on the nether side; lat- 

 eral nerves 7 to 11 on each side, ascending, curved toward 

 their ends^ similar in prominence and vestiture beneath, the 

 two lowermost pairs arising from near the base, cross bars 

 minute and a trifle more evident from beneath. Flower pendant, 

 axillary or lateral from the young twig portion, solitary; 

 pedicel 5 mm. long, fuligineously pubescent, subtended by 

 a similarly pubescent and rather thick bract; calyx green, 

 tawny pubescent, rigid, rotately spreading, 5 mm. long, 4 

 mm. wide at the base, terminated by a conspicuous point; 

 petals 6, in 2 very unequal series, pendant; the 3 outer 

 petals leatbery, ochraceus, winged or strongly angled in the 

 bud state and somewhat twisted, 5 to 8 cm, long, 7 mm. 

 wide, linear, gradually tapering to the subfalcate tip, mid- 

 vein creased on the back and edged along the nether side, 

 concavo-canvex at the rigid base, glabrous except the finely 

 puberulent dorsal side in the young state, valvate in the 

 bud state; inner 3 petals triangularly ovoid when young the 

 slender tips adnate and 7 mm. long, the basal 4 mm. ex- 

 panded and closely overaching the sex organs, glabrous, cori- 

 aceous; receptacles roundly flattened, pitted; stamens im- 

 bricate, numerous, 1.5 mm. long, one half as wide, nar- 

 rowest toward the ba^e, compressed, terminated by a thick 

 flattened disk; the cells dorso-lateral, with 2 unequal pairs 

 on each side, very pale yellow; pistils severally clustered in 

 the center of the receptacle, linear, nearly 3 mm. long 

 including the 1 to 1.5 mm. long stipitate clavate stigma, 

 the linear ovary portion densely hairy. 



Type specimen number 13586, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabadbaran 

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



This middle sized tree climber was collected in a humid 

 forested flat at about 750 feet altitude. "Gawod" is the 

 Manobo name. 



