122 
The Philippine Journal of Science 
1918 
tions; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, distinct, 
dark-brown in contrast to the paler surface; petioles 3 to 6 cm 
long; stipules very broadly ovate, subpersistent, up to 1.8 cm 
long and 1.4 cm wide, striate. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, 
peduncled, subcapitate, in fruit up to 1.5 cm in diameter without 
the bracts, the peduncles about 1.5 cm long; bracts subtending 
the heads ovate, up to 15 mm long and 10 mm wide, somewhat 
pubescent, the bracteoles in general elliptic, up to 5 mm long 
and 2.5 mm wide. Fruits subglobose, about 3 mm in diameter, 
somewhat ferruginous- or castaneous-hirsute, their pedicels up 
to 3 mm in length. 
Sarawak, Sadong, Mount Merinjak, Native collector 2591 Bur. Sci., 
February-June, 1914. 
This species, not radically different from Xanthophytum fruticulosum 
Blume in vegetative characters, is well characterized by its large stipules 
and its peduncled, solitary, subcapitate, involucrate inflorescences. 
