NOTES ON PHILIPPINE EUPHORBIACEAE. 403'. 
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racemose, terminal, up to 20 cm in length. Flowers unknown, 
the bracteoles densely pubescent, linear, about 5 mm long. 
Capsules depressed, of three cocci, about 1 cm wide, waxy- 
glandular with yellowish dots, and covered with numerous, scat- 
tered, spreading, ciliate, rather soft processes 2 to 3 mm in 
length. 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Talisayan, Q. F. Quadras, 
The type is from the herbarium of the Ateneo de Manila, communicated 
to me hy Father Francisco Sanchez, to whom this most distinct species is 
dedicated. 
A strongly marked species, readily reco^izable by its peltate, oblong- 
ovate to narrowly ovate, long and slenderly caudate-acuminate, repand- 
dentate leaves, 
OSTODES Blume. 
OSTODES ANGUSTIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber circiter 1 m altus; fohis plus minusve con- 
fertis, alternis, sessilibus vel subsessilibus, lineari-lanceolatis, 
acuminatis, basi cordatis, usque ad 27 cm longis, 1 ad 1.5 cm 
latis; pedunculis tenuibus, circiter 8 cm longis, ut videtur 
paucifloris. 
A glabrous shrub or undershrub about 1 m high. Branches 
terete, slender, grayish. Leaves somewhat crowded toward 
the apices of the branchlets, sessile or subsessile, firmly char- 
taceous or subcoriaceous, linear-lanceolate, 18 to 27 cm long, 1 
. to 1.5 cm wide, gradually narrowed into the slender acumen, 
base abruptly cordate, often somewhat surrounding but not 
clasping the stem, shining when dry; nerves 0.8 to 1 cm apart, 
spreading, anastomosing, rather distinct beneath but slender, 
the reticulations lax. Peduncles axillary, slender, about 8 cm 
long, apparently few-flowered. Pedicels about 1.5 cm long, 
slightly thickened upward, and somewhat sulcate or angled at 
the apex. Sepals persistent, oblong-ovate, acute or obtuse. 
Ovary glabrous, 3-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; styles 3, cleft nearly to 
the base. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur, 9343 Whit- 
ford & Hutchhisouy January 14, 1908, in dipterocarp forests, altitude 
about 30 m. 
This species has been described from imperfect material, no flowers 
having been seen, and only one immature fruit; it belongs, with very 
little doubt, to the genus Ostodes, and is well characterized by its sessile, 
very long and narrow leaves which are abruptly cordate at the rather broad 
base. 
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