1818 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 9S 



apex recurved, broadly obtuse at base, much paler green 

 beneath, the entire margins subinvolute in the dry state, 

 usually many above the middle, oblong, the broader ones 

 broadly lanceolate, the larger ones 2.5 dm. long by 7 cm. 

 wide across the middle or below it, glabrous, curing grayish 

 above and reddish brown beneath, the young blades densely 

 latericius scurfy beneath, in the old leaves merely punctate; 

 midrib pronounced beneath, shallowly grooved above, sprinkled 

 with latericius scales beneath even in the old ones; lateral 

 nerves 9 to 16 pairs, relatively prominent beneath, divaricate, 

 with ascending coarsely reticulately united tips, other retic- 

 ulations none; petiole caniculate, 1.25 cm. long, stout, 

 similarly scurfy when young, finally grayish and scaleless. . 

 Panicle pyramidal, 1 to 15 dm. long, nearly as broad across 

 the base, subtended by a dwarfed leaf; branches alternating, 

 furfuraceous, much angled, divaricate, flower bearing toward 

 the distal ends only; flowers few to several, ascendingly 

 curved, odorless; pedicels at most 2 mm. long, glabrous, 

 fleshy, subtended by linear more or less brown hairy bracts; 

 calyx shining lividus except the whitish base, compressed, 

 of 5 nearly free segments, adnate, ovately lanceolate, 2 mm. 

 long, glabrous except the finely ciliate upper margins, apex 

 acute, base at least 1 mm. wide; petals lilacinus, 4 mm. 

 long, 2.5 mm. wide a trifle below the middle, ovate or 

 ovately oblongish, rather sharply pointed toward apex, very 

 finely purple streaked or spotted but not glandular; stamens 

 of the same number; filaments 0.5 mm. long, compressed, 

 glabrous; anthers dirty yellow, 2.5 mm. long, sagittate 

 and 1 mm. wide at the base, gradually tapering to the 

 rather fine point, compressed, introrse or sublaterally dehiscent; 

 ovary smooth, conical, 1 ram. thick; style reddish, 3 mm. 

 long or longer, straight, only slightly thinner toward the 

 distal end. 



Type specimen number 12865, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Found in rich soil deeply covered with humus of dense 

 forests at about 500 feet altitude along the trail toward Napsan. 



Quite similar to A. oblongifolia Men. 



