2612 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
portion, the largest blades 1 m long and proportionate in 
width, apex rounded and with a short acute or acuminate 
point, base also rounded and more or less entire, margins coarse- 
ly serrate; midrib very thick and conspicuous beneath, less 
evident above; lateral nerves 20 to 25 pairs, oblique, paral- 
lel, strict, terminated into the serratures, cross bars and 
reticulations very fine yet quite evident from both sides; 
petiole 3 to 5 cm long, 5 to 8 mm thick, subterete except 
the v-shaped channel along the upper side toward the base; 
stipule adnate and deciduous, dry, 7.5 cm long, folded into 
a boat, truncate at the apex, at all times glabrous, coarse- 
ly veiny, the uppermost ones red. Flowers terminal, aris- 
ing from the upper bracts; pedicel suberect, 7 to 12 cm 
long, reddish, terete, about 1 cm thick; sepals 5, ovately 
oblong or merely oblong, thick and rigid, yellowish green, 
nearly all alike in size and shape, 5 em long, 3.5 cm wide 
across the middle or below it, glabrous, rotately spreading 
from the base to the middle, the middle or distal one half 
deeply folded upon the upper side thereby forming a sort 
of a pouch, apex obtuse, the imbricately overlaid edges thin- 
ner, veiny, subtended by a single reddish streaked and green- 
ish nerved bract, with a more acuminate point, a trifle 
longer than the calyx; petals 5, ascendingly curved, 1 dm 
long, 7.5 cm wide above the middle, membranous, equally 
bright yellow all over, obovately rotund, veiny, the basal 
middle portion thickened; stamens yellow, peripheral, the 
basal 5 mm filamentous, flattened, linear, the basal portion 
erect and nearly free, the balance recurved and widely spread- 
ing, 1 mm wide, the apex blunt and with 2 pores, the pol- - 
len sacs nearly 2 cm long; styles erect in a central con- 
crete mass, radially dissected from the apex into many stig- 
mas; stigma linear, 1 to 2 cm long, descendingly recurved, 
gradually tapering to the rather sharp and usually curved 
points, yellowish white or paler yellow than the petals; fruits 
irregularly globose, 7.5 cm thick, solid, yellowish green, with 
large thick and green imbricating calyx segments; seeds brown, 
surrounded by thick succulent sour and juicy folds. 
Type specimen number 11883, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
_ Discovered in rich humus and well drained soil of woods 
