1050 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. III, Arr. 55 
yellow beneath the epidermis, with similarly colored sticky 
juiee; limbs relatively short, freely rebranched and forming 
a more or less dense crown; twigs also short, green, flex- 
ible, ascendingly curved. Leaves rigidly coriaceous, ascending, 
shallowly folded upon the upper deeper green and sublucid 
surface, margins entire and involute in the drv state, drying dull 
green, cuneate or alternate at the base, apex o *usely rounded or 
merely obtuse, blades 10 to 15 cm. long, 5 cm. wide across 
the middle or a trifle above it, with 20 to 25 very fine 
obscure lateral ascending pairs; petiole 2 em. long, glabrous, 
the sides more or less angled. Pistillate flowers solitary or 
in small fascicles, chiefly in the old leaf axils along the 
twigs, rigid, easily breaking off, sessile; perianth 7.5 mm. 
long, the 4 segments united from above the middle into a 
fleshy columnar base; the outer pair thick, deep yellow 
when in flower, rotund, overarching the inner lighter 
yellow and smaller pair; ovary green, bearing a sessile 
watery white stigma which is not sticky; staminate 
flowers more numerously clustered upon subangular 5 mm. 
long pedicels, caducous, odorless, dull yellow; calyx of 4 
persistent segments, nearly free to the base, forming a broad 
cup, 4 mm. long, broadly elliptie to subrotund, the outer 
pair somewhat larger, all more or less streaked with reddish 
brown, edges thin; petals free, deciduous, 3, a trifle longer 
than the ealyx, ovately oblong, thinner in texture; stamens 
pale light yellow, upon short filaments, arranged in a globose 
mass and set upon a very short stalk, nearly 0.5 mm. across, 
obscurely flattened, 2-celled, the cells dehiscent along the 
edges; pistillode present; young fruit 1.25 cm. long, perfectly 
ellipsoid, hard, shining green, bearing a brown stigma, 
6-celled and 6-seeded. 
Type specimens 12528 and 12185, A. D. E. Elmer, Magal- 
lanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Si- 
buyan, May to April, 1910; also number 12538 from the 
same locality. 
The former number the Visayan called ''Bogayat" and 
was collected in densely wooded ravines at 1750 feet along 
ine trail toward Espafia. The latter was gathered in a man- 
grove swamp at. 500 feet and was called ''Barbatwan" by 
the same natives. It is quite common in deep moist soil 
