2412 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Arr. 112 
m high or higher, straight, chiefly branched toward the top; 
wood soft, yellowish white, rather brittle, odorless and taste- 
less; bark relatively thick, smooth and yellowish gray or 
mottled on the surface, otherwise of the wood color; main 
branches divaricate, iong, numerously rebranched, the slender 
and lax twigs drooping; twigs fine, glabrous, yellowish when 
dry. Leaves descending, smooth and glabrous on both sides, 
shining on the upper much deeper green surface, gradually 
recurved toward the acuminate apex, otherwise flat, curing 
greenish beneath and grayish brown above, subchartaceous, 
entire, copious, alternatingly scattered along the branchlets, 
broadly obtuse or the largest blades obtusely rounded at 
the base, lanceolately oblong, the average ones 9 cm long 
by nearly 3 cm wide below the middle; petiole glabrous, 
roughened along the midrib along the lower side, caniculate 
above, 5 mm long; midrib prominent beneath, light straw color 
when dry; lateral nerves very divaricate, strict, tips interarching, 
7 to 9 pairs, the basal pair oblique, secondary ones faint 
and extending only one half way to the edge, reticulations 
obscure; bud bract 1 cm long, yellowish, with seta-like 
points, glabrous, strongly involute. 
Receptacles in pairs or in small axillary clusters, hard, oN 
green, ovoidly globose, 8 mm thick in the fresh state, only v 
9 mm in diameter when dry, subsessile or sessile, subtended by 8 of 
rather thin brown glabrous bracts, deeply sunken at the apex; P 
florets stramineus, umbilical rim thickened and rugose, sun- 
ken in the middle; the outer bracts thick, horizontal, im- 
brieate; the inner ones extending in a cluster toward the 
center of the fruit, oblong, 2 mm long, hyaline; staminate 
flowers not seen; pistillate ones 2 mm long, compressed, 
strongly bulged below the middle, subsessile; perianth seg- 
ments appressed, 2 or usually 3, hyaline, linear, finely ciliate 
especially toward the base, equal in length; ovary 0.75 mm 
long, with transparent keels, extended into a 1, mm long 
style which bears a brown tip. 
' Type specimen numbers 14034 and 13422, A. D. E. Elmer, 
Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, 
October and August, 1912. 
Discovered this slender rather large tree in well drained soil 
of steep ravine slopes in humid woods along the Catangan 
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