Marcon 27, 1915] Two HoNpnED Twenty Six New Spkcigs—[] 2647 
curing dull brown above and greenish brown beneath, trun- 
cately ovate or triangular in shape, base truncate or only 
a little pointed and entire, otherwise dentate or obscurely 
and irregularly repend, glabrous on the upper surface ex- 
cept along the yellowish midvein and lateral nerves, beneath 
pellucid gland dotted and velvety tomentose especially the 
young ones, exceedingly variable in size, the average lamina 
1 dm long by 6 cm across the base, without basal glands 
at the end of the petiole, alternate and more numerous to- 
ward the ends of the branchlets; midrib straight, prominent 
beneath and brown puberulent or pulverulent, quite prom- 
inent; lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, oblique and nearly straight, 
the basal pair with 3 to 5 lateral branches along the lower side, 
the second pair fewer branched toward the distal end, the up- 
per pairs merely forked at their ends, similar in prominence 
and vestiture to the midrib, cross bars quite evident and 
at right angles to the lateral nerves; petiole 3 to 6 cm 
long, terete, slender, when young fulvus puberulent, dull 
brown and glabrate when old. Young infrutescence axillary, 
strict, ascending, usually solitary, unbranched, 5 to 8 cm 
long, fruit bearing from above the middle; peduncle and 
rachis terete, slender, in the early state fulvus tomentulose, 
becoming dark or dull brown; pistillate flowers or young 
fruits solitary or few clustered, alternatingly scattered below, 
‘crowded in subwhorls toward the top of the stalk; staminate 
flowers not collected; pedicels finely brown scurfy in the - 
dry state, in flower 2.5 mm long, twice as long in the 
fruiting state, subterete, 0.75 mm thick, slightly enlarged to- 
ward the distal end, subtended by minute bracts or bract 
vestiges: calyx composed of 3 more or less unequal short 
divaricately spreading segments, brown pulverulent on the 
exterior, the longest of the segments 1 mm long; fruits usu- 
ally single and obscurely inequilateral, subglobose, 3 mm 
in diameter, bearing a large subcapitate and sessile brown 
stigma whose surface appears rugulose, densely covered with 
a light yellow glutinous coat; seed crustaceous, nearly black 
and covered with a thin jelly red film appearing minutely 
punctate. 
` Type specimen number 10719, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909, 
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