2390 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. VII, Arr: 112 
tered, entire, oblong, flat, the gradually acuminate tips re- 
curved, a trifle inequilateral toward the broadly obtuse or ob- 
liquely rounded base, curing dull green on both sides, smooth 
and glabrous, 2 dm long by 6 to 7 cm wide at the base, 
the lower leaves less than one half as large and more distinctly 
unequally sided; petiole stout, 1.5 cm long, grayish and ap- 
pearing minutely checked, glabrate; midrib raised beneath, 
drying conspicuously brown and usually finely strigose beneath; 
lateral nerves in the larger lamina 7 to 10 pairs, ascendingly 
curved, conspicuous beneath, the tips of the upper pairs in- 
terarching, cross bars and reticulations faint; terminal bud 
bract nearly chalky white on the exterior, sharply acuminate, 
equaling the petioles. 
Receptacles alternating and hanging upon stem tubercles, 
glabrous, pale glaucous green, with numerous brown lenticels, 
similarly and much compressed at both ends, the younger ones 
obovoidly compressed, 7.5 cm across when old; peduncle 
striate, 6 to 10 mm long or longer, green, bearing 3 small 
` bracts at the distal end, glabrous; tubercles profuse along 
the trunk, 1 to 3 m long, glabrous but characteristically 
grayish white in the dry state, grayish green when fresh, 
very flexible and repeatedly branched, arising in clusters 
from short woody excrescences, more or less angled at least 
in the dry specimens; umbilicus 7.5 mm across, rugose and 
slightly raised, the outer portion composed of broad imbricate 
bracts horizontally placed; the inwardly extending bracts thin- 
ner, oblong or subspathulate, 2 mm long; male flowers not 
observed; young pistillate flowers 1.5 mm long, dark brown, 
subcompressed, intermixed with the gall flowers; pedicels 
thick, 0.5 mm long, surrounded more or less by yellowish 
brown hairs of equal lengths; ovary ovate from the side 
view, surrounded by a perianth sheath; style nearly terminal, 
0.5 mm long, irregularly expanded at the apex; gall ovary short 
obovoid, sessile or with a tapering pedicel, bearing a sub- 
terminal style which is terminated by an expanded stigma, 
similarly surrounded by tufts of seta-like hairs. 
Type specimen number 13991, A. D. E, Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 
ober, 1912. 
Discovered in loose red humus covered soil at the upper 
