1812 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 93 



MORACEAE 

 Malaisia blancoi Elm. n. sp. 



Scandent upon trees and forming interlaced masses; stem 

 terete, 2.5 cm. thick, freely rebranched; branches divaricate, 

 slender, sinjilarly rebranched, glabrous, reddish brown, dense- 

 ly lenticelled with lighter brown; wood bendable but tough, 

 grayish brown except the central white portion, odorless, near- 

 ly tasteless; bark brown, lenticelled on the branches, checked 

 on the stem. Leaves descendingly curved, flat, subchartaceous, 

 darker green on the upper side, glabrous, pale and duller 

 green beneath, alternatingly scattered, the entire margins more 

 or less rugose, diverse in fize, the lower or smaller ones 

 elliptic, the larger blades ovately oblong, rounded toward the 

 apex and usually terminated by short blunt point, base broad- 

 ly rounded, the normal blades 12 cm. long by 5 cm. wide 

 below the middle; midrib dull grayish brown and conspicuous 

 beneath, fluted above; lateral nerves 9 to 13 on each side, 

 rather straight and relatively prominent beneath, tips ascend- 

 ingly curved and united, cro.'^s reticulations more conspicuous 

 toward the outer one half of its sides. Spikes solitary or 

 usually clustered in the uppermost leaf axils; peduncle 1 cm. 

 long or less, slender, densely cmereous, subtended by pubescent 

 bracts; rachis or the flower hearing portion of the spikes 1 

 to 3 times as long and similar in vestiture; flower sessile* 

 secundly arranged or clustered in a winding fashion; perianth 

 segments 3, ovately elliptic or obovately so, 2 to 3 mm. 

 long, soft in texture, woolly puberulent at least on the 

 dorsal side toward the distal end, united at the base; anthers 

 of the same number; filaments I mm. longer than the seg- 

 ments, subglabrous or puberulent toward the subterete base, 

 inserted upon the ventral base of the perianth, looping and 

 ultimately strongly reflexed; anther flattened, 1.25 mm. long, 

 ovately rounded, basifixed, notched at both ends, the cell 

 walls widely spreading after an thesis and turning to a reddish 

 membrane; pistil glabrous, deformed. 



Type specimen number 12627, A. D. E. Elmer, Brooks 

 Point (Addison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 



In jungled woods along the seacoast. "Slimpagot" is 

 the Tagbanua vernacular name. Dedicated to the celebrated 



