402 MERRILL. 
oblong-ovate, 8 to 14 cm long, 3 to 8 cm wide, eglandular, of the 
same color and slightly shining on both surfaces when dry, the 
base rounded, the apex rather slenderly acuminate, margins dis- 
tinctly crenate-serrate ; lateral nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the 
midrib, distinct, anastomosing near the margins, the reticula- 
tions slender, the primary ones subparallel; petioles 1 cm long. 
Male inflorescence spicate, very slender, 12 to 20 cm long, axil- 
lary, solitary, slightly hirsute at the nodes, the flowers numerous, 
fascicled or subsolitary at the nodes, the internodes 1 to 4 mm 
long. Sepals 3, broadly ovate, acuminate, 2 mm long. Sta- 
mens many; filaments short. Female flowers and fruits not 
seen. 
Camiguin de Mindanao, Bitr. Sci, lJf602 Ramos, April 27, 1912, in forests 
near the summit of Mount Catarman. 
A species diflficult to refer to its proper subgenus in the absence of 
female flowers and fruits, but well characterized by its shorts petioled, 
eglandular, pinnately nerved, crenate-serrate leaves, and by its slender, 
elongate staminate spikes. 
MALLOTUS SANCHEZII sp. nov, § Eumallotus, 
Arbor parva vel f rutex, plus minusve stellato-villosus ; f oliis 
anguste ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, tenuiter 
caudato-acuminatis, basi late rotundatis, peltatis, utrinque glan- 
dulosis, margine repando-dentatis ; capsulis depressis, glandu- 
losis, processibus mollibus ciliatis instructis. 
A shrub or small tree, the branchlets, inflorescence, and both 
surfaces of the leaves with scattered, stellate, pale or brownish, 
ciliate hairs, the tips of the branches very densely pubescent- 
Leaves alternate, narrowly ovate to oblong-ovate, chartaceous, 
12 to 20 cm long, 6 to 11 cm wide, brownish and somewhat 
shining when dry, of about the same color on both surfaces, the 
apex long and slenderly caudate-acuminate, the acumen 2,5 to 3 
cm long, the base broadly rounded, peltate, the petiole inserted 
at from 1 to 1.5 cm from the margin, both surfaces with scat- 
tered, stellate, pale, ciliate hairs, and with scattered, shining, 
yellowish, waxy glands, the margins repand-dentate, the teeth 
Bhort, less than 1 cm apart, the basal margin quite entire; basal 
nerves 7 to 10, radiate, the lower ones short; lateral nerves above 
the basal ones 6 to 8 on each side of the midrib, ascending, prom- 
inent, the reticulations subparallel, prominent; petioles 5 to 10 
cm in length, more or less ciliate-pubescent; stipules linear, 
densely pubescent, 1 cm long or less, deciduous. Inflorescence 
