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2654 LEAFLETS of PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Arr. 114 
pale or yellowish white, quite hard, odorless and tasteless; 
bark yellowish gray, peeling in thin plates; main branches 
from the middle, divaricately spreading, slenderly rebranched, 
far reaching, the thin young tips cinereous. Leaves mem- 
branous or submembranous, horizontally spreading, flat or 
only the very short and very abruptly acute apex recurved, 
base usually rounded but occasionally obtuse, oblong, the 
average lamina 12.5 cm long by 5 cm wide though frequently 
smaller, entire, alternate, glabrous except along the nerves, 
curing greenish; midvein prominent beneath, bud strigose 
especially in the young state, creased on the upper side; 
lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, much ascending, also conspicu- 
ous and strigose beneath, tips anastomosing, cross bars rather 
fine yet plainly evident from both sides; petioles sordidly 
strigose, 5 to 8 mm long, not ‘thick; stipules subpersistent, 
seta-like, 3 mm long, densely pubescent. Spikes pendulous, 
mostly from the leaf axiis, green and strigosely hairy, slen- 
der, 1.5 dm long; flowers small, yellowish green, sessile, sol- 
itary or in small groups, scattered from below the middle 
but more numerous toward the end, subtended by a persis- 
tent bract-like rim whose basal portion is more or less hairy 
and whose margins are subhyaline; calyx greenish, united at 
the base, imbricate, 5 or occasionally reduced to 4 and then 
somewhat unequal, soft pubescent toward the thickened ba- 
sal portion on the outside, otherwise nearly glabrous, -orbicu- 
lar or rotund, 2 mm long, 1.5 mm wide across the middle, 
deeply concave on the inner side, the overlapped margins 
hyaline and enclosing the inner floral organs; corolla pale yel- 
low, united above the pistil, 1 mm deep, densely ‘hairy, 
divided into 8 or 10 equal or subequal lobes, thick in tex- 
ture; stamens as many as corolla segments, also erect; fila- 
ments inserted upon the sinus of the corolla lobes, 0.5 mm 
long, glabrous; anthers broadly orbicular, nearly 0.5 mm 
across, attached at the emarginate base, the sacs laterally 
dehiscent; pistil scarcely exceeding the corolla, densely wool- 
ly except the small flattened subentire or bilobed stigma; 
broadly ellipsoid in outline, 2 mm long; fruit grayish and 
= velvety purple, submelleus when dry, 1.5 cm long, obscurely 
trigonous, similarly tapering at both ends, dehiscing from 
: h apex; seed surrounded by a lemon yellow fleshy mem- 
