Aleurites moluccana (L.) Willd.

TODAY A (hit. APO), DISTRICT OF DAVAO
ISLAND OF MINDANAOj JUNE. 1909
10893. Alsurites aolucoana ffilld, Sreat tree
mostly scattered along the steep wooded slopes of the
Sibulan and Baruring rivers from 2000 to 3000 feet;
trunk 1 to 3 feet in diameter, round, SO to BO feet high,
branched from the /Biddle; branches divarioate, rather
long and widely spreading, rebranched above the middle,
forming a rather flattish crown; twigs suberect, few,
thick* wood very white, soft and dry fibrous, throughout,
light, odorless and tasteless; barJc comparatively thiok,
brown or grayish btfown when young, lenticelled, or densely
and thinly checked longitudinally, gray when old; leaf
petioles spreading from the ends of the twigs; yellowish
brown, terete and flexible; blades mostly descending,
eonduplioate on the upper lucid green surface, the young
ones oovered with a yellowish gray powder (which gives
the tree from a distance a very pronounced appearance),
paler green beneath, margins wavy, the main nerves yellow-
ish green; inflorescence terminal (althougn the young
branches shrot out from below it) yellowish gray including
the calyces; the 6 petals creamy white, recurved, flat
otherwise; anthers light yellow; the short filaments
and pistil whitish; infrutescence 6 inches to a foot or
more long, upon l/2 inch thiok woody brown stalks; nuts
irregularly globose or somewhat flattened, hard, green, 2
to 5 inches in diameter, "Biaou, " TodayaJune, 1909•
jLLMERS FIELD NOTE!l
BOTANICAL
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
DISTRIBUTED BY A. O. E. ELMER
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Aleurites moluccana (L.) Willd.
det.: W. Stuppy
(Rijksherbarium, Leiden)
Sept. 1997