2338 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. VII, Art. 110 | 
obtuse to rounded at the base, margins entire and subin- 
volnte in the dry state, paler green beneath, curing blackish 
on both sides, elliptically elongated, the average blades 1 
dm long by one half as wide, coriaceous, entirely giabrous; 
petiolule ascending, green, slender, drying blackish, also 
suberect at the distal end, varying from 2 to 5 em long; 
midrib conspicuous beneath, plane above, similar iu color 
when «ry; lateral main nerves 5 to Y pairs, divaricate, with 
secondary intervening ones, their ends arched and faintly 
united, reticulations quite numerous and equally plain on 
both sides. Stem or branches terminated by few widely 
spreading spikes, the flower bearing twig occasionally broad 
bracteated; rachis glabrous, green, very slender, usually curved, 
at the base ebracteate, 1.5 to 2.5 dm jn length; pedicels 
very slender, 6 to 9 mm long, green and glabrous, solitary 
or occasionally 2 to 3-clustered, widely scattered along the 
rachis. from below the middle; calyx short turbinate or 
pedicel-like, glabrous, green and reddish brown on the ex- 
posed sides, terminated in a rim, 1 mm high and fully 
or broad across the top; corolla early falling, ultimately 
separated into 5 petals; each segment distinctly with 3 
parallel nerves, truncate at the base, acute at apex, glabrous, 
cremeus, occasionally dotted with elongated spots, triangu- 
larly ovate, somewhat unequal in size; stamens 5, alterna- 
ting with the corolla segments, inserted at the base of the 
large ovary; filaments less than 1 mm long, yellowish, 
glabrous; anthers as long, broadly ellipsoid, a trifle broader 
below the middle, auriculately lobed at the base, emarginate 
at apex, attached at the middle, laterally dehiscent; ovary 2 
mm wide, less in heigth, glabrous and ‘glaucous, indented 
at the apex. Nearly mature fruit 5 mm long and 3.5 mm 
thick across the top, green, then citrinus, finaliy shining 
purple red, turbinately elongated, the apical one third grayish 
white and with rugosely encrusted stigmatic portion; seeds 
normally 5, compressed, achene-like. 
Type specimen number 14075, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt, Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 
ober, 1912. 
Upon a small tree fifteen feet shite ground, on a very 
steep densely wooded incline at 5750 feet altitude, along the 
