2634 LEAFLETS OF PAILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
soft; bark yellowish brown, more or less sealing, reddish be- 
neath the epidermis, lenticelled on the branches, the young 
ascending tips yellowish brown puberulent in the dry state. 
Leaves coriaceous, deciduous, slightly paler green beneath, 
nearly flat, alternate, diverse in size, oblong to subelliptic, 
apex abruptly obtuse or merely rounded, the entire margins 
subinvolute in the dry state, glabrous, curing dull brown 
on both sides, base either broadly rounded or broadly cuneate 
to obtuse, the few larger blades 18 cm long by nearly 
one half as wide across the middle, the more numerous 
leaves elongated and only one half as large; petiole 8 to 18 
mm long, terete, only very minutely grooved along the up- 
per side, yellowish brown or gray and glabrate in the old 
ones; midrib deeply channelled on the upper surface, strongly 
raised beneath, glabrous; lateral nerves 6 to 8 pairs, ob- 
lique, tips faint though distinctly interarching, also prominent 
beneath, cross reticulations obscure; stipules not seen. Flow- 
ers not found. Young infrutescence green, erect or ascend- 
ing, terminal or subterminal, alternatingly clustered, usually 
leaf subtended, 5 to 10 em long, paniculately branched from 
below the middle; branches puberulent, ebracteate, not re- 
branched, the ultimate ones fruit bearing from near the 
middle; pedicel 1 to 2 mm long, minutely pubescent, slightly 
thicker toward the distal end; subtended by bracts; persis- 
tent bracts ovate or orbicular, 0.75 mm long, short hairy; 
calyx segment subpersistent, 1 mm long, sparsely hairy, ovate 
and with acutely pointed tips; young carpels less than 5 
mm long, oblique though subterete in the fresh green state, 
compressed and rugose or coarsely nerved in the dry state, 
glabrous or pulverulent; stigma persistent, of 2 short and 
recurved lobes, inserted on the leteral edge at about the 
middle of the fruit. 
Type specimen number 13277, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 
1912. 
Collected in humus covered compact red soil on a steep 
ravine near the forested ridge at 1250 feet altitude. Called 
by the Manobos ‘‘Hotot.’’ 
Apparently nearest to Antidesma mindanaense Merr. but 
inflorescence of ours always paniculate, calyx not as distinctly 
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