2552 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
tuse in the rotund leaflets, the average ones 4 cm long by 
2.5 cm wide across the middle, frequently appearing a trifle 
inequilateral; midrib raised’ beneath, sunken above; lateral 
nerves usually of 3 pairs, very obscure though equally evident 
from both sides, very strongly and ascendingly curved, retic- 
ulations none; petiolule 4 to 5 mm long, stout, also glab- 
rous and when dry similar in color. Inflorescence terminal, 
erect or nearly so, severally stalked from about the same 
place or densely crowded in an alternating manner, 9 to 13 
cm long, subtended by reduced leaves; the stalks or pedun- 
cles provided at the middle by a pair of leaflets, subterete, 
thick, when dry dull brown or blackish, entirely glabrous, 
umbellately branched toward the top; branches severally clus- 
tered, the lower ones subtended by reduced leaflets, 2 cm 
long, ascending, similar in color, stout, longitudinally fluted, 
bearing umbels of flowers at their ends; pedicels very thick, 
6 mm long, 3.5 mm across the truncate or minutely 5- 
apiculate top, the basal one half as calyx proper, turbinate 
and more or less 5-angular, the pedicel portion thick and 
striate, pulverulent or dirty  puberulent; corolla forming a 
conical hood over the sex organs, glabrous, very early fall- 
ing, coriaceous, valvate in the bud state; segments 5, broad- 
est toward or at the base, 3 mm long and nearly 2 mm 
wide though slightly unequal in width, apex obtuse and tip 
thickened and inwardly curved; stamens as many as petals 
and apparently alternating with them; filaments inserted be- 
tween the ovary and calyx rim, incurved under the corolla, 
finally spreading, 4 mm long, glabrate and terete, a trifle 
thicker toward the base, recurved toward the distal end; 
anther much recurved, attached on the back below the 
middle or toward the somewhat thickened base, oblongish, — 
1.5 mm long, dehiscing longitudinally; ovary completely 
imbedded, flat and radially marked with ridges at the top, 
bearing in the middle a sessile or subsessile stigma. 
Type specimen number 13193, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 
"Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
Collected in the chaparral formation on the rocky sum- 
mit of mount Pulgar at 4000 feet altitude. Forestry Bureau 
number 3884 collected by Mr. Curran on the same mountain 
has ovoidly compressed fruits 7.5 mm long. Bureau of Science 
