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Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. m 



white, the inner surface exuding an ochraleucus somewhat 

 viscid juice; branch s freely rebranched, lax, slender, smooth 

 and ater brown, the green ultimate tips light olivaceus to- 

 mentulose. Leaves alternate, scattered, descending, chartaceous, 

 deep lucid green above and glabrous in the old ones paler 

 beneath, entire, curing brown or dull gray, obovate or obo- 

 v^tely elliptic, apex short pointed, base broadly obtuse or 

 subcuneate, the larger blades 8 cm. long by 3.5 cm. wide 

 above the middle, soft, slightly olivaceus pubescent beneath 

 even so in the old leaves; midrib made more evident 

 by its dense pubescence, glabrous on both sides in the old 

 leaves; lateral nerves 5 to 7 on a side, ascendingly curved, 

 reticulately united, in the younger leaves similarly pubescent 

 on both sides, reticulations fine and equally evident on both sides 

 of the glabrous lamina; petiole 4 to 7 mm. long, at first 

 densely light olivaceus, ultimately glabrous. Inflorescence yel- 

 lowish green, erect, terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils; 

 peduncle usually solitary, 2 to 3 cm. long, very light and 

 densely olivaceus tomentose; divaricately branched at the end, 

 branchlets again rebranched but very short, all more or less 

 subtended by thick and caducous bracts; flowers odorless, 

 quite easily falling; pedicel 1 to 2 mm. long, relatively thick, 

 olivaceus tomentose, subtended by similarly hairy linear or 

 laciniate bracts, easily breaking at about the middle; buds 

 globose, olivaceus tomentose on the outer side, valvate, parting 

 from apex to base into 5 subequal segments or sepals, the 

 outer or longer ones 2.5 mm. in length, I mm. wide, oblong 

 or elliptically so; petals 5, free, alternating with the sepals, 

 2.5 mm. long, obovately oblong or clawed toward the base, 

 apex broadly rounded and either finely apiculate or obscurely 

 emarginate, veiny, glabrous, suberect; fertile stamens 5, each 

 with an accompanying abortive one, both inserted upon the 

 base of the petal claw; filament 2 mm. long, glabrous, ap- 

 parently somewhat dilated; anther 0.33 mm. across, oval or 

 short ellipsoid, attached from the nearly black thick connec- 

 tive on the dorsal side; ovary small, deep woolly, the 1 mm. 

 long erect style glabrous, stigma short forked. 



Type specimen number 12919, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 391 1. 



Gathered from the tops of trees standing in the red grav- 



