1968 



Leaflets of Philippine Botany I Vol. VI, Art. 



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rough yellowish gray bark; young twigs green, glabrous ; 

 subcompressed, bendable. Leaves ovate to ovately oblong, 

 chiefly descending, shining and very smooth on ^ both sides 

 yet paler green beneath, bluntly acute to acuminate, apex 

 recurved, otherwise flat, entire, exceedingly variable in size, 

 opposite, glabrous, the larger ones 1.5 dm long by 7 cm 

 wide below the middle or the smaller ones only one third 

 as large, frequently a trifle inequilateral toward the broadly 

 obtuse or subrounded base, caesius in the dry state, entire; 

 petiole compressed especially the dorsal portion; lateral 

 nerves quite evident from beneath, ascending and the upper 

 ones much curved toward the tips which are only obscurely 

 united, reticulations few and obscure, 4 to 7 on each side 

 according to size of blade. Spikes solitary or 2 to 3-clustered, 

 terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils, dark green, glab- 

 rous, subterete, drying dark brown, flowers odorless, scat- 

 tered in triads along the upper side chiefly from near the 

 base, the short but thick common stalk also green, articu- 

 lately constricted at the base; calyx yellowish green, about 

 5 mm long, glabrous and glandular punctate, thickened at 

 the cupular calyx rim, 3.5 mm across and obscurely 6-lob- 

 ed or lacerate at the very thin truncate margins; corolla 

 bud 5 mm thick at the base, otherwise thinner except the 

 slightly thickened and subelliptic apical portion, tube light 

 aurantiacus except the glaucous green band beneath the 

 dull green apical portion; corolla segments 6, valvate, the 

 apical 6 ram first becoming reflexed, finally the segments 

 splitting clear down to nearly the base which is however 

 united, glabrous on both sides, nearly 2 cm in total length, 

 fleshy, 3 mm wide at or near the basal portion, gradually 

 narrowed toward the distal end which is only one half as 

 wide; stamens or anthers erect, purplish, sessilely inserted 

 upon the throat of the segments and opposite them, flat, 6 

 mm long, 0.75 mm wide, linear, sharply pointed, the cells 

 along the ventral marginal side; style subterete, equalling 

 the stamens or longer, slightly constricted at the very base, 

 surrounded by an obscure ovary rim, apical one half or 

 stigmatic portion green, basal portion aurantiacus. 



Type specimen number 13774, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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



