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the middle; wood hard, heavy, yellowish, without odor or 

 taste; bark thin, very dull, grayish on the lax branches; ul- 

 timate branchlets or twigs short, suberect, dirty hirsute, gener- 

 ally in threes, the ultimate portion green, subcompressed and 

 olivaceus hairy. Leaves also horizontal, flat, very short acute, 

 submembranous, paler on the nether side, curing unequally 

 brown on the 2 sides, entire, broadly obtuse at apex, sub- 

 cuneate or broadly obtuse or obovately elongated, very unequal 

 in size, the larger ones 12 cm, long and one half as wide, 

 hirsute on both sides especially along the nerves beneath; 

 midrib prominent beneath, minutely furrowed on the upper 

 side; lateral nerves likewise conspicuous on the nether side, 

 with 6 pairs, oblique, tips much curved but not united, 

 reticulations none but strictly marked in patches on the 

 lighter side only; petiole green or reddish, stout, flattened 

 on the upper side, densely olivaceas long hairy, 5 mm. 

 long; stipules 2 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, membranous, brown, 

 long olivaceus hairy on the outside, flat, broadly oblong, 

 rounded at apex. Inflorescent spikes axillary, horizontal, 

 forked from the middle, greenish but turning red when exposed, 

 the branches recurved, usually solitary from the uppermost 

 leaf axils, slender and bristly hirsute, less than 1 dm. in 

 length, the branches generally curved and flower bearing 

 nearly to the base; flowers secundly arranged along the up- 

 per side, suberect, evenly scattered, odorless; calyx sessile, 

 cupular, 2 mm. long, hirsute, undulately truncate, veiny, 

 greenish; corolla more yellow than green, 7.5 mm. long, 

 gradually enlarging from base toward apex, glabrous on the 

 inside, exterior of tube sparsely paberulent, terminated by 4 

 lobes; segments rotately spreading, subrotund, 1.5 mm. across, 

 with a brush of hairs on the outer middle basal portion, 

 otherwise glabrous; stamens also 4, alternating with the 

 QoroUa segments; filaments very short, from the throat; anther 

 2.5 mm. long, erect, introrsely dehiscent, linear, dorsifixed, 

 0.5 mm. thick, the upper one half exerted and slightly 

 thicker, ends emarginately rounded; style glabrous, few mm. 

 long, forked, the apical stigmatic tips divergent; ovary also 

 glabrous, rim-like. 



Type specimen number 13476, A. D. E, Elmer, Cabadbaran 

 (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, August, 1912. 



