2326 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Arr. 110 
tips recurved, base broadly rounded and entire, otherwise 
crenately toothed; petiole varying from 2 to 6 em in length, 
usually subtended at the base by a ‘leaflet; petiolule 2 to 5 
mm long, glabrous and grooved above, otherwise yellowish 
brown pubescent, that of the snbtending leaflet twice as 
long; midrib stout and brown pubescent beneath, narrowly 
ridged above; nerves 6 to 9 pairs, similarly pubescent be- 
neath, occasionally with intervening secondary ones, ascend- 
ing and usually curved, tips anastomosing, reticulations rather 
few toward the midrib. Inflorescence erect, 3 to 6 dm or 
even 1 m long, paniculate in outline, the lower unbranched 
branches 4.5 dm long, the uppermost only one third as 
long; stalks greenish or when exposed becoming reddish to 
brown, subterete, the upper one half striate and  fusco-to- 
mentulose; flower bearing portion promiscuously scattered 
from below the middle, solitary or in clusters, .2 to 5 cm 
long, similar in vestiture, 3-branched from about the middle, 
divaricate, subtended by glabrate bracts whose margins are 
finely ciliate; lateral branchlets 1 cm long, the terminal 
one a trifle longer; flower in rather dense globose umbels, 
odorless, creamy white, 5 mm or more in diameter; pedicels 
1 to 3 mm long, densely brown puberulent, persistent, sub- 
tended by bracteoles; calyx subcampanulate, greenish, 1.5 mm - 
long, nearly as thick above the middle, glabrons or sub- 
glabrous, terminated into 5 minute teeth, in the dry state 
more or less rugose; ovary crown subglaucous or yellowish 
green, terminated into a central group of normally 5 styles; 
styles united at the base, erect and becoming recurved, 
glabrous, less than 1 mm in length, terminated by a small 
darker colored stigma. Fruits 4 mm in diameter, subglobose, 
with the 5 much reflexed styles persistent; seeds 5, stone- 
like, 2 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, smooth and nearly gla- 
brous, yellowish brown, sides flat. 
Type specimen number 11608, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, 1909. | 
Collected in fertile moist soil of light woods at 3500 feet 
altitude. Only known from the north side of the Sibulan 
river and at the base of mount Calelan. ‘‘Mara-bauya’’ in 
Bagobo. 
