2692 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
sappy white, without taste or odor; bark smooth, mostly 
brown; branches divaricate, laxly rebranched, slender, nu- 
merous, terete, the young tips subolivaceus puberulent. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, horizontal, alternatingly spreading along the 
branches, flat or the abruptly acute apex recurved, dull 
green on the faintly puberulent nether side, entire, base ob- 
tusely rounded, curing unequally brown on its 2 sides, 
the average leaves 12.5 cm long, 5 cm wide a trifle above 
the middle, obovately oblong or merely oblongish; midrib 
prominent beneath and brown puberulent, the 6 lateral 
pairs ascendingly curved, their tips usually united 5 mm from 
the leaf edge, similarly hairy, cross bars and reticulations 
very coarse yet quite evident from beneath; petiole less than 
1 em long, furrowed along the upper side, usually short 
hairy. Inflorescence subpendulous, axillary or from the fal- 
len leaf axils; peduncle 5 mm long, densely yellowish brown 
hairy, few branched toward the top; branchlets very short, 
subtended by bracteoles, similarly pubescent, bearing few 
odorless flowers; pedicel 1 to 3 mm long, short pubescent, 
subtended by similar pubescent bracts, occasionally with an 
additional bract or two along its side; calyx apparently ar- 
ticulate, 1 mm high, nearly twice as broad across the faint- 
ly 4 or 5-apiculate apex, puberulent on the outside; cor- 
olla cremeus, 5 mm long, the basal two thirds united, the 
4 segments obtuse and abruptly constricted into a 1 mm 
long incurved laciniate point, glabrous, each portion with a 
conspicuous midvein; stamens 4, exceeding the corolla; fil- 
aments subpetaloid, falsely united below the middle and in- 
serted upon the corolla, 6 to 7 mm long, nearly 1.5 mm 
wide above the middle, oblanceolate, crisply hairy on the 
ventral side of the middle region, otherwise glabrous, thicken- 
ed toward the obtuse apex, of the same color; anther light 
yellow, 1 mm long, truncately ellipsoid, upon the ventral 
side of the connective; ovary elongated, glabrous, 1 mm 
long, obtusely pointed, with a minute sessile stigma, brown 
in the dry state. Fruits upon 1.25 cm long green and gla- 
brate pedicels, suberect, 1.5 cm long, elongated, ellipsoid or 
fusiform, hard, lemon yellow, glabrous and lucid, brown and 
striately ridged when dry, with a solitary stone seed. 
Type specimen numbers 11330 for flower and 10527 for 
