2598 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
testaceus; main branches long and sprawling, subdrooping, . 
branchlets comparatively’ short and more or less clustered. 
Leaves descending, chartaceous, drying brown, glabrous and . 
smooth, imparipinnate, with 3 to 5 leaflets, entire, tips re- 
curved; terminal leaflet always largest, 14 cm long by 6.5 
em wide across the middle, the lower or subopposite ones 
ovately oblong while those of the terminal ones are more 
elliptically oblong, base obtusely rounded, apex acute to 
acuminate; petiole usually 3to5 cm long, terete, glabrous, 
thickened at the base, bearing in the axils isabellinus hairy 
buds; petiolule 5 mm long, somewhat compressed and flut- 
ed along the upper side; midrib quite conspicuous beneath, 
very smooth, with 3 to 5 pairs of lateral nerves, in the 
larger lamina 2 pairs of the nerves from near the base and 
running nearly parallel with the middle one, the upper pair 
much ascendingly curved, cross nerves and fine reticulations 
more evident from the upper surface. Inflorescence suberect, 
terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils, 3 to 8 cm long; A 
peduncle solitary or few clustered, glabrous, branched from 
the middle, brown, subtended by deciduous puberulent bracts, 
obscurely compressed; branches similarly rebranched and 
subtended by bracts; pedicels alternating or in pairs, strict, 
slender, reddish, à to 8 mm long, subtended by ciliate 
bracteoles; bud after anthesis ovoid, 4 to 5 mm long; the 
5 brick red perianth segments nearly all equal, united at 
the base, strongly imbricate, 4 mm long, 3 mm wide to- 
ward the base, glabrous, the outer ones reddish brown punct- 
ate, concavo-convex, the inner ones more distinctly striate, 
broadly ovate in shape, coriaceous; stamens 10, . inserted 
around the ovary; filaments glabrous, united at the very 
base into a short rim, 3 mm long, narrowly linear, flat- 
tened, the sides subhyaline; anther broadly orbicular or 
lenticular, 0.75 mm across; pistils also glabrous, 2 mm long, 
erect, 5, grouped closely together; ovary elongated, com- 
pressed, bulged along the back, straight on the ventral side, 1 
mm long; style about as long; stigmas pale white and slight- 
ly oblique. Young fruit ovoidly ellipsoid, dark green. 
Type specimen number 14309, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- | 
bandir (Mt. OTS Province Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- E 
ember, dem i 1 
