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coriaceous, paler green beneath, drying equally grayish on 

 both sides, the average ones 2.5 dm. long by 5 cm. wide 

 across the middle or a trifle above it; midrib very pronounc- 

 ed beneath, grooved along the upper side; the 9 to 14 lateral 

 nerves rather straight, oblique; thin tips reticulately united, 

 relatively obscure; reticulations likewise obscure, minute, a 

 trifle more evident from the upper surface; petiole thick, 1 

 to 2 cm. long, flat on the upper side, gray when dry. In- 

 florescence odorless, upon 1.5 to 3 cm. long ligneous divar- 

 icate terete branches, lateral, below the foliage or occasional 

 from the lowermost leaf axil; rachis stramineus, 3 to 6 cm. 

 long, stel lately spreading, several, compressed and subglabrous, 

 curing brown, leaving dense transverse scars after falling, 

 flower bearing from near the base; bud bracts brown, glab- 

 rous, imbricate, 1 cm. long, sharply acuminate; flower solitary 

 or more frequently in small groups, irregularly scattered; 

 calyx ashy gray when dry, glabrous, subsessile and somewhat 

 constricted at the very base, cup shaped, 2 mm. long and 

 nearly as thick, truncate or obscurely 5-lobu!ate or merely 

 undulate, occasionally priand dotted on the inner side; corolla 

 3 mm. long, the basal one half forming a broad tube, 

 glabrous; lobes 5, more or less glandular, 1 to 1.5 mm. 

 long, truncately rounded at apex or emarginate, oblongish, 

 the sides rolled upon the upper surface in the dry state; 

 stamens inserted upon the corolla tube, sessile; anthers flat- 

 tened, at least 0.5 mm. long and as broad at the base which 

 is a trifle wider than at the notched apex, truncately sagit- 

 tate at base, the blackish brown connective densely glandular, 

 the cells opening laterally; ovary relatively large, glabrous, 

 ovoidly conical; stigma sessile, 1.25 mm. across, disk-like, 

 the nether edges distinctly lobulate or star-shaped. Young fruit 

 solitary or sessile or upon very short more or less elongated stalks 

 and clustered, red or whitish and sprinkled with red, glob- 

 ose, shining, subtended by the spreading calyx rim; stigma 

 flattish globose and sessile. 



Type specimen number 12825, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Discovered in fine gravelly soil along the wooded Iwahig river 

 banks at 500 feet altitude as well as along smaller streamlets. 

 Named with pleasure after E. D. Merrill, government botanist for 



