392 MERRILL. 
stout, at least 50 cm in length, about 1 cm in diameter, glabrous, 
or near the apex more or less pubescent. Staminate inflores- 
cence apparently axillary, about 50 cm long, rather densely 
brown-pubescent with very short hairs, the lower branches up 
to 14 cm long, the upper gradually shorter, very numerous. 
Bracts very numerous, orbicular, concave, pubescent, 3 to 4 mm 
in diameter, minutely and irregularly toothed, Male flowers 
6 to 10 in the axil of each bract, sessile. Calyx 0.6 to 0.8 mm 
long. Stamens 2 to 4, Female flowers and fruit unknown. 
Camiguin de Mindanao, Bur, ScL 1U702 Ramos, March, April, 1912. 
A species in the same group with and allied to Macaranga noblei Elm., 
but very different from it. A single excellent distinguishing character is 
its nearly glabrous leaves, 
MACARANGA AMPLIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 10 m alta, partibus junioribus dense ferru- 
gineo-tomentosis glabrescentibus, ramulis crassis, 1 ad 1.5 cm 
diametro, stipulis lanceolatis, acuminatis, 3 ad 4 cm longis, sub- 
persistentibus ; foliis coriaceis, altemis, usque ad 40 cm longis, 
integris, ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, acuminatis, basi acutis vel 
subtruncatis, prominente 3-plinerviis, subtus dense pallide glan- 
duliferis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, paniculatis, diffusis, amplis, 
quam folia brevioribus; capsulis glandulosis, parvis, 2-coccibus, 
inermibus. 
A tree about 10 m high. Branchlets stout, 1 to 1.5 cm in 
diameter, brown, glabrous, the tips densely brown-tomentose, 
the stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 3 to 4 cm long, subpersistent, 
appressed-ciliate on the back. Very young leaves densely fer- 
ruginous-tomentose, soon becoming glabrous or nearly so. 
Leaves alternate, ample, ovate to oblong-ovate, coriaceous, 20 
to^ 40 cm long, 9 to 20 cm wide, long and rather slenderly acu- 
minate, margins entire, base subtruncate or acute, prominently 
3-plinerved, with one or two additional pairs of very short basal 
nerves, the upper surface shining, quite glabrous, brownish, the 
lower surface somewhat paler, rather densely covered with 
minute, pale, waxy glands, the nerves often slightly hairy; 
lateral nerves above the basal pair 9 or 10 on each side of the 
midrib, ascending, parallel, very prominent, anastomosing close 
to the margin, the reticulations subparallel, prominent; petioles 
about 20 cm long, at first pubescent, becoming glabrous or nearly 
so. Panicles axillary, very densely ferruginous-pubescent, 
ample, diffuse, many-flowered, usually exceeding the petioles in 
length, the bracts obovate, 3 mm long, subdigitately toothed. 
