2620 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE Botany (Vor. VII, Art. 114 
cent hairs, much paler beneath and similarly spiculate hairy 
especially along the midrib and nerves, curing blackish brown 
above and deep brown beneath, more or less elliptic in 
shape, terminated in a very short acute point, broadly 
rounded at the base, entire margins hispidly ciliate, alter- 
nate and chiefly toward the ends of the branchlets, 1.5 to 
3° dm long without the petiole, 1 to 1.5 dm wide at the 
middle, with small intermixed ones only 7 cm long, young 
‘leaves and bud bracts densely covered with reddish brown 
hispid hairs; petiole l to 4 cm long, stout, succulent, pale 
green though nearly black when dry, densely hispidly brown 
scaly when dry, obscurely flattened; midrib prominent and 
densely brown hispid beneath, nearly plane above; lateral 
nerves 12 to 15, with ascendingly curved hairs, tips strongly 
curved and more or less united, similar to the midrib in 
prominence and vestiture, cross bars rather numerous and 
quite evident from beneath. Inflorescence hanging in small 
clusters, chiefly from the stem and larger branches, frequently 
axillary, the individual ones varying from 5 to 15 em long, 
few branched from above or from below the middle and 
in subwhorls, all the stalks pale green and turning reddish 
brown when exposed, appressed hispidulous, glabrate when 
old, lower or larger branches relatively long and divaricately 
spreading, rebranched toward their ends; pedicels as well as 
the branchlets subtended by acute to acuminate subpersistent ° 
bracts, yellowish brown tomentulose besides the spicular 
hairs; flowers odorless, the petals with stamens eariy falling, 
pendulous; pedicel 1 cm long or longer, bristly hairy; sep- 
als almost free, averaging 1 cm long; the outer 2 or 3 
only sparingly setosely strigose on the back, broadly ovate, 
acute or obtuse at the apex, rigidly coriaceous; the inner 
2 or 3 more elongated, smooth except the outer exposed 
Lu portions, thinner in texture, apex subtruncate; petals white,. 
glabrous, imbricate, 1.25 cm long, 8 mm wide above the 
middle, membranous, obcuneate in outline, apex truncate 
and emarginate or even notched, easily falling; stamens 
many, inserted upon the inner basal portion of the corolla 
segments; filaments compressed, widest across the contiguous 
bases, subequal in length, glabrate; anthers introrse, nearly 
as long as the filaments, oblong, flattened, in the dry stat 
