894 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 50 
POUZOLZIA Gaud. 
Pouzolzia indica (Linn.) Gaud. 
Perennial; stems few to many from the same root clus- 
ter, brown, subherbaceous, much curved or reclining at the 
base, suberect and greenish white above, not branched or only 
sparingly so, terete, 3 to 5 dm. long, extending into flores- 
cent spikes; roots a fascicle of rather hard tubers. Leaves 
all alternate, the uppermost becoming bract-like, the larger 
3 em. long, 12 mm. wide below the middle, ovately oblong 
to laneeolate, entire, base rounded, gradually coming to a 
sharply acute point, pulverulent on the upper conduplicate 
surface and with a few strigose hairs, beneath sericeous pu- 
bescent in all leaves, chiefly divaricate or the lower ones de- 
scending, soft membranous; nerves 3 from the base, promi- 
nent beneath, the basal lateral pair extending two third up 
the blade, a secondary lateral pair or usually with two pairs 
arising from the midvein a trifle below the middle, the lat- 
eral ones subparallel, reticulations none; petiole similarly hairy, 
1 to 3 mm. long. Flowers and fruits in axillary clusters; 
stamen buds truncate at apex, nearly 1.5 mm. thick; segments 
4 or 5, the tips strongly inflexed, parted to the base, coarse- 
ly hispid on the back, oblong, 2 mm. long; stamens as 
many and opposite the segments, inflexed in the bud; fila- 
ments glabrous, flattened ultimately as long as the segments; 
anthers auriculately lobed at both ends, 0.75 mm. long, a 
trifle wider when in full anthesis; pistillode short, erect; 
pistillate flower in the uppermost leaf axils subtended by a 
few rather broad ciliately margined involucral bracts; flowers 
subtended by linear bracteoles 1 mm. long, densely ciliate; 
perianth costate, brown 1 mm. long,  hispidly ciliate, 
minutely dentate at the apex; stigma 2.5 mm. long, brown, 
finely barbate along the stigmatic side, usually curved or re- 
curved at the tip, deciduous; fruit 1.5 mm. long, ovoidly 
subcompressed, 1 mm. thick below the middle, ridged, never 
winged, provided with the same more or less hooked spicules; 
seed slightly costate, ovoid, shining black when mature. 
Represented by number 11020, E/mer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, June, 1909. 
