

1986 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. VI, Art. 100 



]y curved, grayish brown in the dry state, quite slender. 

 Leaves alternate, pendant, upper side shallowly curved, glaucous 

 green beneath, the abruptly recurved apex rounded and 

 terminated by a 1.5 cm long narrow point or abruptly caudate 

 but with apex rounded, base broadly obtuse or obtusely rounded, 

 when dry light gray beneath and grayish brown on the upper side, 

 parchment-like, alternatingly scattered along the branchlets, 

 elliptic or elliptically oblong, the entire margins slightly in- 

 volute in the dry state, smooth and glabrous, 12 to 15 cm 

 long, 5 to 7 cm wide; midrib quite prominent and brown 

 beneath, only slightly raised above; lateral nerves about 8 

 pairs, ascending, less prominent beneath, tips finely anasto- 

 mosing or faintly united, cross reticulations barely visible; 

 petiole 5 to 8 mm long, blackish brown when dry, narrowly 

 can icu late, glabrous. Spikes ascending, arising from the fo- 

 liage, 5 to 12 cm long, glaucous green and minutely farinose, 

 ascending, stout; acorns or glans 1.75 cm across and hardly 

 as long, compressed ovoid, gradually tapering, cinereous pul- 

 verulent, mucronate pointed, curing brown, the apical portion 

 exserted; cup 2.5 cm wide, less in length, hard, glaucous green, 

 when dry appearing cinereously farinose, with a short but 

 very thick stalk, widest across the middle and similarly 

 tapering toward both ends, the horizontal rings few from the 

 base to above the middle and frequently spiral, fine and more 

 numerous toward the entire and circular orifice, the last ones 

 very minutely apiculate, the young ones entirely enclosing 

 the glans, opening 3 to 5 or even 8 mm across. 



Type specimen number 13810, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 tember, 1912. 



Discovered in a humid Dalahion river gorge in rocky soil of 

 woods at 3000 feet altitude or just above its falls. This the 

 ManoboS also call "Lipacon. 1 ' 



