2558 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
pubescent, varying from 1.5 to 2.5 dm long, slightly thicken- 
ed toward the base, subtended by brown oblong bracts which 
are similarly huiry especially on the ventral side; blades co- 
riaceous, descending or turned and twisted so as to secure 
the most of light, flat, parisius green above, much paler be- 
neath, sordid or dirty brown when dry especially the upper 
side, glabrous except the veins and nerves beneath, oblique 
or inequilateral, cordately ovate in outline, gradually tapering 
toward the sharply pointed tip, margins entire but with ob- 
scure broad teeth or merely undulate, the lower end below 
the base broadly rounded, the larger dry lamina 14 cm long 
and one half as wide across the base; veins 7, radially 
spreading from or near the base, the middle one extend- 
ing into the apex and 1 to 3-branched from the middle 
along the upper or wider side, the other middle veins like- 
wise few branched, fuligineus brown when dry and with sim- 
ilarly colored hairs, in the fresh state occasionally red- A 
dish tinged, coarse retieulations obscure and only sparsely Y > 
hairy. Peduncle arising from the leaf axils, succulent, la- 
tericius, usually exceeding the foliage, sparsely hirsute, it as 
well as the petioles turning dull brown when dry, fastigi- 
ately branched toward the top, the branched portion about 
1 dm in length; branchlets glabrate, drying straw brown, nu- 
merously rebranched above the middle, subterete, thickened 
at the joints and appearing somewhat zigzag; pedicel of the 
flowers 4 mm long, subtended by a pair of unequal mem- 
branous petaloid and caducous bracts, twice as long in the 
fruiting state; buds pink; flower whitish except the yellow an- 
thers, odorless, terminating the ultimate branchlets; perianth 
of the staminate flowers membranous, divaricately spreading; 
the outer pair of lamina 5 to 6 mm long, erect and en- 
closing the stamens, ultimately spreading, broadly or bluntly 
elliptic, more or less veiny, almost 4 mm wide, rounded at 
the apex, base connate; the inner pair at right angles with 
the outher pair, obovately oblong, hyaline, 4 mm long by 
1.5 mm wide, also rounded at the apex and connate at the 
base, similarly spreading, both pairs subtending a soft glo- 
bose stamineal head 8 mm in diameter; filaments hyaline, 
only a fractional of 1 mm in length; anther light yellow, d 
obcuneate, 0.75 mm long, 0.5 mm wide across the truncate d 
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