398 MERRILL. 
3-nerved, the lateral nerves reaching one-third the length of the 
lamina, there anastomosing with the upper lateral nerves, the 
base also with two or three pairs of supplementary, very short, 
nerves; primary nerves above the basal ones 4 or 5 on each 
side of the midrib, ascending, anastomosing, distinct beneath, 
the reticulations rather lax; petioles 2.5 to 5.5 cm long, pubes- 
cent; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, about 3 mm long, early 
deciduous. Staminate inflorescence in the upper axils, solitary, 
racemose, slightly pubescent, about 10 cm long, the flowers 
arranged in fascicles of from 4 to 9 flowers each, their pedicels 
1.5 to 2.5 mm long. Calyx-segments usually 4, reflexed, glan- 
dular, oblong to oblong-ovate, subequal, about 2.2 mm long, 1- 
or 2-nerved. Stamens about 35 ; filaments 2.5 mm long, glabrous, 
the connective not produced. Fruits about 1.5 cm in diameter, 
consisting of three dehiscent cocci, depressed, deeply sulcate 
between the cocci, glabrous, glandular, with few, scattered, 
rather soft, glabrous, spine-like processes about 2 mm in length. 
Babuyanes Islands, Camiguin, Bur. Sci. ^0^7 Fenix, June 27, 1907, 
in thickets in old clearings. 
This species has previously been reported by me as Mallotus leuco- 
calyx Muell.-Arg.," to which it is manifestly allied, but from which it 
differs strikingly in its fruit characters, M. leucocalyx having capsules 
covered with numerous, elongate, softly pubescent spine-like processes. 
MALLOTUS CARDIOPHYLLUS sp. nov. § Eumallotus. 
Ut videtur arbor parva, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque 
dense f ulvo-stellato-tomentosis ; foliis cordato-ovatis, acuminatis, 
usque ad 10 cm longis, basi late cordatis, supra glabris, subtus 
eglandulosis, leviter hirsutis glabrescentibus ; racemis erectis, 
circiter 10 cm longis; floribus masculinis pedicellatis ; staminibus 
circiter 50, locellis oblongis, connectivo baud producto. 
Apparently a shrub or small tree, the branches glabrous, 
dark-reddish-brown, terete, the growing parts, the young leaves, 
and the rachis of the inflorescence very densely covered with 
matted, fulvous, stellately arranged, tomentose hairs, the leaves 
when mature nearly glabrous. Leaves opposite, cordate-ovate, 
subcoriaceous, 6 to 10 cm long, 5 to 7 cm wide, base broadly 
rounded, usually prominently cordate and with two large, black 
glands near the insertion of the petiole, not at all peltate, the 
apex acuminate, pale and somewhat shining when dry, the 
upper surface glabrous, minutely papillose, the lower surface 
eglandular, more or less stellate-ciliate with pale-brown hairs, 
the indumentum more or less deciduous; basal nerves a single 
u 
This Journal 3 (1908) Bot 416. 
