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well scattering along the branchlets, membranous or submem* 

 branous, horizontal or descending, greenish in the dry state, oblong, 

 the apex rather abrupt and sharply acuminate, base obtuse 

 or the obtusely rounded margins entire, glabrous and sub- 

 lucid on the upper slightly darker green side, the larger 

 ones 15 cm. long by one third as wide across the middle 

 or below it, frequently a trifle inequilateral below the mid- 

 dle; petiole less th^n 1 cm. in length, glabrous, shallowly 

 caniculate above, the base expanded or more or less united 

 with the interaxillary stipules which are quite short and 

 broadly rounded; midrib prominent beneath especially to- 

 ward the base, narrowly grooved above, yellowish brown in 

 the dry state; lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each side, very ob- 

 lique or ascending, tips occasionally forked or coarsely anas- 

 tomosing but usually united, reticulations minute, all dirty 

 brown pulverulent beneath. Flower in small glomerules from 

 the leaf axils or from the axils of their scars; pedicels 1 

 to 2 mm. long, glabrous, subtended by a pair of stout apic- 

 ulate bracts; calyx also glabrous, 2 mm. long, 5-lobed nearly 

 to the base, the lobes oblongish and submembranous ; corolla 

 cretneus, caniculate, 3.5 mm, long, 5-lobed, glabrous except 

 ^he very finely ciliate throat region, tube inflated; segments 

 1.5 mm. long, hyaline as is also the tube, normally 5 but 

 frequently 6, spreading or reflexed, bluntly oblong; stamens 

 as many as segments and alternating with them; anther 0.75 

 mm. long, subbasifixed, slightly lobed at base, truncately 

 apiculate at apex; filament short, glabrous, inserte<l upon the 

 throat; ovary densely and finely white hairy; style 1.5 mm. 

 long, divided and sparsely ciliate at base; stigma much thick- 

 ened, slightly compressed, ultimately separating, hairless; ma- 

 ture drupe 7.5 mm. long, subglobose or broadly ellipsoid; 

 stone seeds 5, smooth, at least 5 mm. long, dark brown, 

 sharply pointed at each end, the inner sides smooth and 

 plane, the convex side coarsely rugose. 



Type specimen number 14261, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Octo- 

 ber, 1912. 



Collected in a depression or saddle between Duros and 

 Cawilanan peaks at 3250 feet altitude. 



