Pothos ovatifolius Engl.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
DISTRIBUTED BY A. D. E. ELMER
DUMAGUETE (CUERNOS MTS.), PROVINCE OF NEGROS ORIENTAL
ISLAND OF NEGROS, MARCH, 1908
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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9618, Pothoa ovatifoliua Bngl. A lofty climber and
forming tangled oppressed masses about the bole of a tall
X«auaii (a Dipterocarpaceoua trot); «tens and branch«« the
•iso of a man* a finger, aubterete, green, or the older ones
yellowiah, quite rigid and wiry, comapicuoualy ringed every
5 inchea; leaf petiolea green, rigid, aheath like, oonapi*
cuoualy imbricated and making excellent protective homea
ttrnwww for black anta, strict, aaoending; learea coriaceoua,
?ery variable in aise, flat, ahining dark green, the younger
one a paler, aubdeao ending; infloreaoenoe erect, 1 to 3 from
the enda of the branohea; peduncle 6 inchea long, uaually
curved, green and hard, bearing a single atrongly reflexed
foliaceoua braat above the middle; apikea 6 to i inohea long,
1/2 inch thick, terete, green and terete in antheeie, with
an unpleaaant aour dough odor; fruiting apike uaually curved,
lemon yellow; beriiea only hare and there growing to matu~
rity, ellipsoid, Jdl 1/2 inch long, of the aame lemon yellow,
looaening at the baae, with a aweet colorleaa juice; aeeda
2, green, with a etriate dull black coat; "Falaguiwon. "
Dumaguete, March, 1908*	FIELD NOlifio
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