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PHILIPPINE DIPTEROCARPACEAE. 235 great extent. Dr. Whitford has shown that the dipterocarps in the Philippines frequently form almost solid stands over considerable areas. These stands are made up of several species. The trees are usually of large size, erect and comparatively free from prop-roots; although Pentacme, Anisoptera and some others do occasion-ally form fair-sized low prop-roots. Time of flowering and fruiting.— It is because of our ignorance of this that our knowledge of the generic position of some species is so vague. The great size of many of the trees maKes it a difficult matter to collect herbarium material from them. They stand out above the others in the forest and are much less likely to be covered with climbing vines. Much the most' practicable method of collecting herbarium material, is by chopping the tree down. As the average collector ii unwilling to take so much trouble, the material secured is often very frag-mentary, and material picked up under the tree does not furnish the safest indication of the condition of the plant. An indication of the time of flowering or fruiting is obtained by the finding of flowers or fruits on the ground under the tree. Very often the only fruiting material we have of a particular species has been so found. Indications seem to point to a very definite flowering season for some species and to a widely extended season for others. Dipterocarpus grandiflorus Blanco has been collected in flower in the months of January, February, March, April, May, June, and December; and in fruit in January, February, May, June, August, and September. The variable climatic conditions in different parts of the Islands are probably respon-sible for this. Even in the same section, as in Bataan, there is a good deal of variation, perhaps due to soil, exposure and moisture conditions. This species and a number of others seem to flower regularly every year. There are some species, as Hopea plagata (Blanco) Yu}., winch are reputed to flower only once in several years. I think it likely that most species flower, at least partially, each year. When fruit is produced, it is found in great quantity ; but, there seems to be a very low percentage of germination. The seeds lie on the surface of the ground and germinate quickly, if at all. They seem to require a fairly constant and uniform amount of moisture for germination and the seedlings die quickly if exposed to the hot sun. It seems that the seeds occasionally germinate while still on the tree. Certain species, as Shorea eximia contain fatty material in the seeds, which are greedily eaten by wild pigs and other animals. Such seeds as these disappear very quickly, within a few days after falling. t . i i Shortly after germination, the wings fall off and the thick, divided cotyledons are quickly raised on the long hypocotyl. •This Journal 4 (1910) Bot. 09<)-725.
PHILIPPINE DIPTEROCARPACEAE. 245 D. baudii Korth. in Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. (1839-42) 59, L o; Scheffer in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. 31 (1870) 347; Kurz in Jouni. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 39' (1870) Go; A. DC. Prodr. 1. c. 600; Miq, FI. Ind. Bat. 1 = (1859) 497; Siippl. Fl. Sumatr. (1802) 485; Biirck I. c. 198. Anisoptera ? palembanica Miq. FI. Sumatr. (1862) 497; Knrz in Journ. Afiiat. Soc. Beng. 39^ (1870) 05. D. macrocarpus Vesque in Compt. Bend. 78 (1874) 027; Dyer in Journ. Bot. 12 (1874) 153. D. warhurgii Brandis in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1895) 32. D. lasiopodus Perk, in Frag. Fl. Philip. 1 (1904) 22: Merr. in Bur. Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 29 (1905) 30. D, affinis Whitford in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 10= (1911) 70, ph. 72, 13, non Brandis. Trees 30 to 40 m high, the' younger branchlets densely covered with brush-like, fascicled, tawny, stiff hairs; stipules rose-colored, up to 15 cm long, brushy-hirsute ; leaves of younger branchlets very large, 30 fo 45 cm long and of a thinner texture, the older ones smaller, broadly oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded at the somewhat narrowed base, on a 5 cm brushy-hirsute petiole, shortly acuminate, chartaceous, or almost coriaceous, upper surface along the impressed nerves and lower surface everywhere pubescent with short, tawny, stellate and simple hairs. Flowers showy, rose-colored, forming simple, short, axillary racemes covered with brush-like, fascicled, stiff hairs; calyx tawny-tomentose with stellate hairs ; petals oblong, blunt, several times the length of the calyx, thickly covered on their outer surface with stellate hairs; fruiting calyx ovoid, about 2.5 cm in diameter, terete, the two wing-like lobes 17 to 20 cm long, 3 to 4 cm broad, with three prominent longitudinal vems and numerous, more or less distinct, transverse veins. Fruit hard and heavy, more or less fibrous inside, and containing resin; upper portion of the fruit with or without .small obtuse, rounded protuberances, which alternate with the lobes of the calyx. Dipterocarpus warburgii Brandis and D. lasiopodus Perk were de-scribed as belonging in the Section Tuberculati, but they were described from fragmentally or immature material, which does not present very conclusive evidence of their belonging to that section. Leaf and fruit characters of D. pilosus, as shown by our collections, have shown such a range of variability that it has seemed to me best to refer the above names to synonymy. It is possible that more complete material may show them to be good species, but at present I can see no reason for keeping them distinct. Luzon, Province of Cagayan, For, Bur. 17171, 17262 Curran: Province of Nueva Ecija. For. Bur. 22U6 Alvarez, Dec. 1910, flower and young fruit For. Bur. 22345 Alvarez: Province of Tayabas, Vidal I. c, pictures a fruit of this species from the Island of Alabat, Merrill 2004, 2031 Bagger, April 1903 (these two numbers were mentioned by Perkins under D. lasiopodus), For. Bur. 6054 Kohhe, For. Bur. 10222, 10291, 10208 Curran, For. Bur. 11505 Whitford, For. 10375a
24g FOXWORTHY. 5 Dipterocarpus gracilis Blume Bijdr. (1825) 224, FI. Javae (1828-29) 20, t. 5; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1^ (1859) 497; A. DC. Prodr. 16^ (1868) 609; Dyer in Journ. Bot. 12 (1874) 102; Burck in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 6 (1887) 106; Brandis & Gilg in Engler & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3" (1894) 257, f. 119, A-D; Brandis in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1895) 30. Pubescent. Leaves small, ovate-lanceolate, secondary nerves 10 to 12 pairs, stellate-pubescent beneath. Calyx in flower with two subopposite, linear lobes of about the same length as the calyx-tube, the other three lobes very short and reflexed: Petals twice as long as the calyx, linear-spatula to, obtuse, white-sericeous outside, rose-color within, convolute in bud. Stamens with short glabrous filaments; anthers twice as long as the filaments, with a long setaceous connective. Fruit 2 cm in diameter. Luzon, Province of Camarines, For. Bur, 10740 Curran, July 1908, in fruit. MINDORO, For. Bur, 4101, 4106 Merritt, May 1906, in flower and fruit. Common names : anahaun (Tag.) , apitong (Tag.). Distribution: forests of West Java; the Philippines. 6. Dipterocarpus hasseltii Blume Fl. Javae (1828-29) 22, t. 6; Dyer in Journ. Bot. 12 (1874) 102; Hance in Journ. Bot. 16 (1876) 241; A. DC. Prodr. 16 (1868) 609; Miq. Flora Ind. Bat. 1 (1859) 497; Vidal Phan. Cum. Philip. (1885) 97; Burck in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 6 (1887) 196; Brandis in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1895) 30; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. Ken. Boomsoort. Java 5 (1900) 109; Whitford in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 10 (1911) 70. Buds and young branchlets glabrous. Terminal buds elongate, at-tenuate, curved. Leaves much smaller than those of D. trinervis, oval, acute, base subcuneate, 11 to 18 cm long, 6 to 10 cm wide; secondary nerves 10 to 14 pairs; petiole one-third to one-fourth the length of the blade. Fruit 1 to 2 cm in diamter, the calyx-tube much constricted at the top. This species presents an appearance extraordinarily like that of D. vernicifluus, from which it differs in its more glabrous leaves and in its elongate, attenuate, curved and glabrous terminal buds. Luzon, Province of Nueva Ecija, For. Bur. 22145 Alvarez: Province of La Laguna, For. Bur, 10105 Curran. NEGROS, Gimagaan Kiver, For. Bur. 13589 Meyer & Foxworthy, Aug. 1909, in fruit. Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, For. Bur. 12350 Hutchinson. Common names: panao (Tag.), pagsahingan (Tag.). Distribution: Malacca; Sumatra; Java; the Philippines. 7. Dipterocarpus vernicifluus Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 314, ed. 3 (1878) 217, t. 183; Dyer in Journ. Bot. 12 (1874) 104; Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) XV, t. 11 f. B; Rev. PI. Vasc. Filip. (1886) 59; Brandis in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1895) 31; A. DC. Prodr. 16^ (18G8) 610; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 97; Merrill & Rolfe in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. H ; Foxworthy in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 391, 4 (1909) Bot. 514; Merritt in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 8 (1908) 48; Whitford in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1910) Bot. 703, Whitford in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 10^ (1911) 70, pls. 70, 71.
254 FOXWORTHY. minute round scales. The occurrence of these hairs and scales is very in-constant. The scales are present in all cases, though there may be but a few in some cases. The stellate hairs, on the other hand, are frequently wanting and their place may be taken by roughened scurfy patches along the under surface of the veins. In the circumference of the pith there are 18 to 24 resin-ducts, often large and close together. In the petiole, the outer low of 7 to 13 vascular bundles forms a closed line, each one containing a resin-duct. In the center is a mass of vascular tissue which is relatively free from resin-ducts. ft/ Wood white, yellowish or pinkish, no distinction between heartwood and sapwood except a slightly darker color in the heart. Xo distinct rings of seasonal growth. Slightly resinous odor when fresh, a sour and disagreeable odor if the wood has been left standing in a wet place for some time. A wood oil is present in the wood and the vessels containing it have often been mistaken for resin ducts. The oil can be secured as in Dipterocarpus though it is not commonly collected. It solidifies quickly into a more or less whitish lesin. Pith-rays of two sorts, moder-ately broad and fine. Vessels of medium size. Wood parenchyma not prominent. Wood from young trees coarse-grained, brittle, rather dif-ficult to work. "Wood from mature trees of very good quality and seems to be fairly durable, being used for planks, crossbeams, etc. There may be a definite period of leaf -fall; but, it is not as pronounced as in Dipterocarpus. The seeds germinate rather quickly after falling to the ground. The fruit is starchy and does not last long. This may be due to decay or to destruction by insects or other animals. The young seedlings do well in the shade. The flowers are borne in great quantity and are yellow. The flowering period for an individual tree is said to be not more than one month in length. The flowers arc sometimes distinctly fragrant. There are about fifteen species in the genus. Heretofore, no Philippine species has been credited to any region outside the Archipelago. It is, however, sufficiently apparent that our Anisoptera thurifera occurs in the Malay Peninsula, where it is usually identified as A, glabra and A. curtisii is here reported for the first time from these Islands. This make? A. curtisii the most widely distributed member of the genus. This genus in the Philippines gives the extreme northeastern range of the family. It also occurs almost as far north in the Philippines as it does in Burma. 1. Anisoptera brunnea sp. nov. Plate XL. Arbor magna. Folia oblanceolata vel elliptica, coriacea, superne glabra; infra tomentosa, brunnoa; lamina G ad 12' cm longa, 3.5 and 5.o cm lata, nervis secundariis utrinque 12 ad 15; petiolo 2 ad 4.5 cm longo-
PHILIPPINE DIPTEROCARPACEAE. 255 Fructus globosus 1 ad 1.5 cm diametro, tubo calycino apice valde con-stricto, calycis segmentis 2 majoribus oblanceolatis 5 ad 8 cm longis, 6 ad 10 mm latis, 3 minoribus linearibus 1-3-nei-viiP, scabris. The conspicuous thing about this species is the chocolate brown tomen-tose under surface of the leaves and the large globose fruits, which are also chocolate brown. The leaves are oblanceolate or elliptic, more or less blunt or rounded at apex and base, and the margins slightly inrolled. Secondary nerves 12 to 15 pairs with intermediate shorter nerves which join the reticulate tertiary ones. Secondary and some of the tertiary nerves more or less uniting to form intra-marginal veins. Petioles 2 to 4.5 cm long, rather slender, thickened in upper one-fourth of their length. Fruit globose, scurfy, dark-brown. The two long wings somewhat pubes-cent, with three or four principal nerves and numerous secondary' nerves which are transverse or oblique and reticulate. The three shorter wings linear, one-to three-nerved, somewhat scurfy like the fruit. Differs from A. curtisii in size, shape and color of fruit and in color of tomentum. The last feature makes it very distinct in appearance trom A, thurifera. We have this species, thus far, only from the province, of Cagayan and Ilocos Norte. The type was collected in the neighbhorhood of Camalamaiungan where it is said to grow in dense flat forest near sea level. LUZON, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 11202 Klemme, April 1908, in fruit(type), For. Bur. 4292 Klemme, June 1906, in fruit, For. Bur. 17230, 17300 Curran, For. Bur. 13128 Bernardo, May 1909, in fruit: Province of Ilocos Norte For. Bur. 14001, 14013 Merritt & Darling. Native name: afu (Cag.). 2. Anisoptera curtisii Dyer ex King in Journ. Asiat See. Beng 62 (1893) 100; Brandis & Gilg in Engler & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam 3(1895) t. 122 F; Brandis in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1895) 42; Whitford in Philip. For. Bur. Bull. 10 (1911) 78. Plate XLI. Large tree 25 to 35 m tall, young branches slender, minutely scurfy-tomentose. Leaves oblong, tapering to both ends, the apex subacute or acute, the base narrowed but rounded ; the upper surface glabrous, shining, the lower densely ochraceous-lepidote and sparsely stellate-pubescent length 5 to 8.75 cm, breadth 1.9 to 3.1 en,, petiole 1.25 to 1.9 cm long;secondary nerves 18 to 20 pairs, spreading; accrescent calyx lobes 8.75 to 11.25 cm long, linear-spatulate, 3-nerved, the transverse veins bold and numerous. The most noticeable feature of this species is the brilliantly yellow lower surface of the leaves, the color being due to the very numerous small round scales with which the under surface is colored. These scales are apparently of the same kind as those of A. brunnea, but here they impart a yellow color to the leaf. The freshly matured fruit has a pale greenish-yellow color. The bark of mature trees is fissured, grayish in
256 FOXWORTHY. color, distinctly lighter-colored than that of A. thurifera. The wood seems to be the same in the two species, and the occurrence of a fluid resin or oil on freshly cut stumps seems also to be the same in both species. The variety latifolia King, 1. c, has been described, with leaves broadly elliptic, blunt, the bases rounded but narrowed, but I have found leaves both of this form and of the form of the type on the same tree and, therefore, do not consider the variety well founded. ■i Luzon, Province of Nueva Ecija, For. Bur. 22/S.) Alvarez (tins number has small leaves with only 14 to 16 pairs of secondary nerves and a petiole which is proportionately longer than that of the type, but it seems best to include it here) : Province of La Laguna, Bur. Sci. 8985 Foxworthy, July 1909, in fruit, For. 15353 Tamesis: Province of Camarines, For. Bur. 10700 Curran, June 1908, in fruit, For. Bur. 13358 Aguilar, July 1909, in fruit. For. Bur. 12809 Rosenbluth, For. Bur, 18723 Darling. Polillo, For. Bur. S21S Bagger, July 1905, in fruit. Native naine: dagang (Tag.) Distribution: Penang; Perak; Borneo, Lawas River; the Philippines. 3. Anisoptera thurifera (Blanco) Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2 (1856) 42; Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) xv, t. 14, f. E; Brandis in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1895) 44; Merr. & Rolfe in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 115; Foxworthy in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) 389, 4 (1909) 512, PL XXVIII, f. 74; Brandis & Gilg in Engler & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3' (1895) 258; Merritt in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 8 (1908) 48; Whitford in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1910) Bot. 703, Pliilip. Bur. For. Bull. 10 (1911) 78, pJs. 82, 83. Mocanera thurifera Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 440; Merr. in Bur. Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 27 (1905 J 22. Mocanera mayapis Blanco 1. c. 449. Diptcrocarpus thurifer Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 310: cd. 3, 2 (1878) 212, /. 26.i; F.-Vill. Noviss. App. (1880) 20. D. mayapis Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 313; Merr. in Bur. Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 27 (1905) 21. Antherotriche lanceolata Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Moacou 19' (1846) 50li; Walpers Ann. 1 (1848) 113. Anisoptera lanceolata Walp. ex A. DO. Prodr. 16= (1868) GIO; Brandis & Gilg in Engler & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3" (1895) /. 122 D, E; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 97; F.-Vill. Noviss. App. (1880) 20. shorea mayapis Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2 (1850) 33. Anisoptera oblonga F.-Vill. Xoviss. App. (1880) 20; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1880) 60; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 25, non Dyer in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 1 (1874) 301. Anisoptera vidaliana Brandis in Journ. Linn. Roc. Bot. 31 (1895) 44; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 97; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 23. Anisoptera tomentosa Brandis 1. c. Anisoptera calophylla Perk, 1. c, 22. Large trees with clean straight boles and thick, coarsely fissured; black or dark-gray bark. Leaves varying from thinly membranaceous to fairly stiff, but never thickly coriaceous, clothed below with fine round scales, which may be remote or closely crowded. The secondary ann
PHILIPPINE DIPTEROCARPACEAE. 257 F tertiary veins are sometimes irregularly scurfy. Large, branched stellate hairs are often present on the veins, but their occurrence seems to be very irregular. Leaves elliptic, shortly acuminate, on long petioles ; blade 8 to 13 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, petioles 3 to 4 cm long ; secondary veins 10^ to IG pairs, alternating with shorter intermediate veins. Tertiary veins parallel, joined by closely reticulate veins. Flowers in drooping panicles ; 'pedicels less than one-haU' the length of the calyx each flower supported by two, oblong, somewhat unequal, 1-to 5-nerved bracteoles Anthers glabrous, the a.vn longer than the anther. Stylopodium bell-shaped pubescent, sometimes slightly constricted above the ovary Fruit globose Lt much-constricted at top, 4 to 15 mm in diameter; calyx-wings 5 to 9 cm long and sometimes more than 1 cm broad, with three prominent longitudinal veins and numerous, more or less oblique, transverse veins. A tree of the lowland forest, ascending to 600 to 750 m above sea ^'It is possible that I am here retaining more than one distinct species under the name of A. thurifera; but, Merill & Rolfe, 1. c., ha., suggested their probable identity and I am unable now definitely to designate distinctive characters for different species. It will take a good deal field work to clear up this matter. There do seem to be two definite types of fruit, one of which is rather large, globose, 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter wJh wings 5 to 7 cm long and more than 1 cm broad, the other with smaller globose fruit, 4 to 8 mm, and longer and narrower wings. I have not been able to discover any constant leaf differences. It may be that the same tree will produce both kinds of fruit; but we do not know that to be the case. Some of the Malay Peninsula material which is identified as A. glabra certainly belongs to A. thurifera. In the incomplete state of our knowl-edge of these two species, I should hesitate to say whether or not the two are identical, but it is certain that A. thurifera does occur on the Malay Peninsula. This species has been found in the Philippines as follows LUZON, Province of Cagayan For Bur. 14736 Darling: Province of Ilocos Norte, For. Bur. 13998, 14004 Merritt a& Darling: Province of Ilocos Sur, For. Bur. 5644 Klemme, For Bur. 7111 Klemme, April 1907, in flower: Province of Abra, For. Bur. 14517, 14557, 14558 14621 Darling: Province of Pangasinan, For. Bur. 8287 Curran & Merritt, For. Bur. 13455 Medina, For Bur. 14365 Villamil: Province of Nueva Vizcaya, For. Bur. 10902 Curran, For. Bur. 22183 Alvarez: Province of Tarlac, Vidal 87: Province of Zambales, Merrill 1763 Garcia, Feb. 1903, in fruit, Merrill 1749 Garcia, April 1903, in fruit, Merrill 2935 Irey, May 1903 in fruit, For. Bur. 3228 Mule, Nov. 1904, in fruit, For. Bur. 5814, 5877, 7016 Curran, For. Bur. 8418 Curran & Merritt, For. Bur. 19467 Agama: Province of Bataan, Merrill 1518 (type number of A. calophylla Perk.), 1475 Garcia, Jan 1903, in fruit, Merrill 3154, Oct. 1903, in fruit. For. Bur. 488, 593
PHILIPPINE DIPTEROCARPACEAE. 261 axillary in few-flowered racemose panicles. Occasionally Two inflores-cences from one axil. Rachis of inflorescence brrownish pubescent. Fruit 3 to 4 mm in diameter, 4 to 5 mm long; resin-cavities in lower part of fruit. Fruiting calyx with 2 long wings 3.5 to 4.3 cm long and 10 to 15 mm wide, with about 9 principal veins. Wings yellow when dry, the veins being of darker color and the fruit and base of wings very dark-brown. The bases of these two larger wings are expanded so as practically to conceal the small wings. Differs from H. odorata in shape of leaves and in its thick short petioles, in size of fruit and in expanded bases of the two enlarged calyx wings; from H. plagata in its narrower leaves, shorter petioles, smaller fruit, with expanded bases to calyx wings; from H. philipinensis in fruit and the absence of the long stipules. Basilan, For. Bur. 15220 Klemme, Aug. 1910; For. Bur. 15408 Pray. Common name: dalindingan. 2. Hopea mindanensis sp. nov. Plate XLIII. Arbor magna, 12 ad 15 m alta, 25 cm diam.; foliis anguste oblongis, brevissime acuminatis, basi irregulariter cordatis, auriculatis, costa media utrinque nervis lateralibus subtus prominentibus ; lamina 15 ad 35 cm longa, 6 ad 11 cm lata, nervis lateralibus 18 ad 24; petiolo brevissimo (5 ad 15 mm), pubescente. Fructu majusculo calyce accreto cincto; calycis lobis majoribus basi ovato tumido, limbo late spathulato, apice rotundato, basim versus valde attenuato, nervis 7 percurso. MINDANAO, District of Zamboanga.. For. Bur, 9029 Whitford & Hutchinson (type). Also represented by For. Bur. 9376 ^Vh^tford d Hufchinson, Jan. 1908, For. Bur. 9376 Feb. 1908, all three numbers from the same locality. This species differs from H. philippinensis in the larger size of leaves and fruit, the pubescent petioles and the auriculate leaf-bases. Common name: magasusu. 3. Hopea philippinensis Dyer in Journ. Bot. 16 (1878) 100; Vidal in Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip. (1886) 62; Brandis in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1895) 64, Everett & Whitford in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 5 (1906) 16, 28, 53 ; Foxworthy in Phillip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 515; Whitford in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 10 (1911) 75, pl. 79. A medium-sized tree with thin, dark-colorod bark. Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrowly oblong, caudate-acuminate, base very unequal-siada, obtuse and almost glabrous, midrib and the 17 to 22 pairs of secondary nerves prominent beneath; domatia conspicuous ; leaf-blade 10 to 15 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide; petiole very short, 6.5 mm long, black and wrinkled. Panicle rather short, terminal or lateral, usually appearing from the branches below the leaves, i. e., from the axils of fallen leaves. Fruits with two, long, spathulate calyx-lobes, 6.5 to 7.5 cm long and 2 cm wide very much narrowed toward the base. Fruit red when fresh, sometimes becoming chocolate-color on drying. 103750 3