1852 Lbaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 93 



elongated, the lateral one a trifle wider toward the base, the 

 terminal one widest at the middle or above it, the larger 

 or basal blades 1 dm. long by 3 cm. wide toward the base, 

 frequently much smaller, serrately toothed except around the 

 obtusely or broadly rounded base, apex abruptly terminated 

 into an acuminate point; lateral petiolule 5 mm. long, the 

 terminal one 2 to 3 times as long, glabrous, caniculate, sim- 

 ilar in color to the blade; midrib stout beneath, narrowly 

 grooved above; lateral nerves 7 to 10 on each side accord- 

 ing to the size of the leaflet, divaricate and ascending, 

 conspicuous beneath, tip barely united, reticulations very 

 frtint beneath only. Inflorescence terminal or leaf oppos- 

 ed, erect, 1.5 dm. to 2 dm. long, forming a rather dense 

 corymb"39 panicle; peduncle 5 to 8 cm. long, terete, coarsely 

 lenticelled, branches compressed and grooved along the edges, 

 divaricate, the lower or longer ones 5 to 8 cm. in length > 

 similarly branched from above the middle, the ultimate ones 

 tiumcrous and short, subtended by caducous bracts and 

 hracteoles; calyx shallowly cup shaped, glabrous, nearly 3 

 mm. across, the 5 teeth subequal and triangularly obtuse, 

 rigidly coriaceous, basal two thirds united; petals valvate, 

 truncately rounded in the bud state, 5 in number though 

 frequently somewhat unequal, 2 to 3 mm. long in anthesis, 

 thickly coriaceous, obtuse at apex and with a thickened in- 

 curved point, triangularly oblong, glabrous; stamineal tube or 

 rim carnoaus, encircling the ovary, 1.25 mm. high, glabrous, 

 with 5 rounded and emarginate lobes or appendages, each 

 bearing on dorsal side a pair of thin hyaline divaricate 

 membranes; filaments arising from the sinus of the lobed 

 rim, subterete, 0.5 mm. long, dark yellowish brown and 

 glabrous; anthers as long as the rim, basifixed, sagittate at 

 base and narrowly notched at apex, oblong though a trifle 

 wider toward the base; ovary subglabrous and subglobose, 1 dm. 

 in diameter, bearing a short thick glabrous style terminated 

 by a minute stigma. 



Type specimen number 13256, A. D. E, Elmer, Puerto 

 Princeaa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 



Collected in secondary woods along a slow flowing deep 

 water streamlet of moist rather fertile soil at 50 feet altitude. 



Not L. rubra Blm., because main leaf nerves not winged 



