Agrostistachys indica Dalzell

13044. Agrostistachys maeeoana Vid. Suberect shrub,
in black leaf covered soil of densely forested flats at
25Q feet; stem gnarly, the upper portion conspicuously
bo, 3 inches thick, 15 feet high or long, crooked, branched
toward the top; wood moderately hard and brittle, with&ut
odor or taste, the thin sapwood white, otherwise melleas*
bark smooth, greenish gray mottled, the middle region
Similarly yellow; main branches mostly horizontally
spreading, crooked,repeatedly branched; twigs quite Blender
and flexible, crooked and curved, descending, with suberect
tips; leaves chartsoeous, shining on the upper fle t side,
slightly paler beneath, ascending and recurved, especially
toward the tips; flowers mostly along the branches, in
small clusters, subtended by yellowish green bractsf odor-
less, caducous, male the recurved pedicel with the calyx
dingy white, the central organs purer white; Puerto
Princesa, April, 1911.
ELMER’S FIELD NOTES
Fam: Euphorbiaceae
Agrostistachys indica Dalz.
Det.: S. Sevilla,	8 May 1998.
(Rijksherbarium, Leiden, Netherlands)
/30VŸ-.
PUERTO PRINCESA (MT. PULGAr), PROVINCE OF PALAWAN
ISLAND OF PALAWAN, APRIL, 1911
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
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