August 18, 1913] FouK Score of New Plants 1836 



high, subterete, with a few ascending branches arising from 

 below the naiddle; wood burly, quite heavy, dingy white, 

 odorless and tasteles'*; bark thick, dirty brown and smooth 

 or scaling in small thin plates, otherwise testaceus, the 

 inner side with milky sap; limbs widely spreading, ultimately 

 freely rebranched; the twigs flexible, subterete, the green 

 terminal portion obscurely angular and subglabrous. Leaves 

 alternatingly scattered toward the distal ends, subchartaceous. 

 horizontally spreading, flat or shallowly folded upon the 

 shining dark green and glabrous upper side, the younger 

 ones soft velutinous and isabellinus beneath, with age the 

 the color becomes grayish, margins entire, apex acute to 

 acuminate, cuneate at base, oblong, the blades 2 dm. long 

 by 7 cm. wide a trifle above the middle, drying unequally 

 brown or gray on the two sides; midrib raised and grayish 

 brown beneath, flat on the upper surface; lateral nerves 

 obout 9 pairs, obliqiae, prominent beneath, tips very faint 

 and obscurely united, the fine reticulations more evident 

 from the upper side; petiole 3 cm. long, deeply caniculate. 

 Flowers caducous, sour dough in odor, greenish white, fascicled 

 from the leaf axils or from their scars; pedicels 3 to 

 5 mm. long, at the base subtended by a series of short 

 brown sparsely pubescent bracts, subcinereous; perianth 

 of 5 imbricated segments; the outer 2 very coriaceous, 

 concavo-convex, appressed pubescent or grayish tomentose, 

 orbicular, 3 mm. across; the 3 or by chance as many as 

 5 inner ones very finely striate, glabrous, margins hyaline 

 and minutely ciliate; stamens 5, opposite the petals; filaments 

 glabrous, blackish brown in the dry state, 1 to 2 mm. 

 long, inserted upon the basal portion of the inner petals; 

 anther ovately oblong or elliptic, 1.5 mm. long, basifixed, 

 obtuse at the usually emarginate apex, base broadly rounded 

 and cordate, the connective rather large; ovary one half 

 imbedded, the conically flattened surface terminated into a 2 

 mm. long ridged nearly glabrous stout point, surrounded by 

 short membranous folds or glanda densely provided with 

 hairs; ovules few to several. * 



Type specimen number 13130, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Inhabiting the Iwahig river banks at 250 feet altitude 



