2618 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
ed from below the middle, very irregular and extending 
partly over a streamlet; wood very soft, sappy white, odor- 
less and tasteless; old bark avallaneus and excrescent, yellow- 
ish gray on the branches, nearly castaneus beneath the 
epidermis; main branches spreading, sparingly rebranched, 
slender, the ultimate ones rather thick and heavy as well 
as being made rough by the short and thick excrescent 
scales. Leaves diverse in size, horizontal or descending ex- 
cept the very pale young or apical ones, in the fresh state 
much paler green beneath, the under side very short avel- 
laneus tomentose in the young blades, ultimately glabrate, 
the upper side sprinkled with similarly colored spicules, 
when old glabrate, the edges made rough by  spicule like 
hairs, curing much lighter brown beneath, rounded and 
terminated by a short or abrupt though acute point, obovoidly 
oblong to obovately elongated, usually narrowed toward the 
rounded base, the larger blades 5 dm long by at least 2 
dm wide above the middle, the smallest mature ones 16 cm 
long by one half as wide, not numerous, alternating toward 
the ends of the twigs; petiole 1.5 to 3 cm long or longer, 
stout, terete, only minutely caniculate along the upper side, 
made very rough by the yellowish gray spicule-like excres- 
cences; midrib very stout, succulent, plane above, glabrate 
and smooth beneath except toward the base where it is petiole- 
like, drying similarly brown; lateral nerves of 10 to 20 divar- 
icate pairs, curved toward their tips and reticulately united, 
less conspicuous but similar in color when dry, cross bars 
quite evident beneath. Flowers and fruits hanging in small 
clusters from the stem and larger branches, only occasionally 
in the leaf axils; peduncles slender, pale green, flexible, 
subfurfuraceous but when old nearly glabrous, 1 dm long 
or shorter, usually few to severally clustered, branched well 
above the middle, the larger branchlets rebranched, brown 
tomentose at the point of branching and provided with a 
pair or more of short similarly hairy bracts; pedicels re- 
curved, 5 to 15 mm in length, subtended by a pair of 
subpersistent bracteoles; calyx composed of 5 segments, all 
more or less united at the base and persistent; outer seg- 
ments 7 mm long by 5 mm wide, elliptic, broadly rounded at 
the apex, with several parallel nerves, pubescent or puberulent 
