20, 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVII 395 
mm long. Filaments 2 mm long, glabrous, base thick, atten- 
uate upward. Immature fruits densely pubescent, obovoid, the 
apex somewhat retuse, about 8 mm long, normally 2-celled. 
MINDANAO, Zamboanga District, Malangas and Mount Tubuan, 
Bur. Sci. 37284 (type), 36702 Ramos & Edafio, October, 1919. 
In secondary forests at low altitudes. 
A species closely allied to Dichapetalum holopetalum Merr., 
from which it is distinguished especially by its glabrous, not 
ciliate branches, and otherwise by its scanty, very different 
indumentum, in the present species the nerves, branches, 
etc., being merely appressed-pubescent with short hairs, while 
in Dichapetalum holopetalum the hairs are elongated and 
Spreading. 
EUPHORBIACEAE 
CROTON Linnaeus 
CROTON LANCILIMBUS sp. nov. 
Frutex circiter 1 m altus, partibus junioribus plus minusve 
lepidotis; foliis numerosis, anguste lanceolatis, membranaceis, 
10 ad 15 cm longis, 1 ad 1.5 cm latis, in siccitate pallidis, basi 
plerumque cuneatis, apice tenuiter caudato-acuminatis, supra 
glabris, subtus minute stellato-lepidotis, nervis utrinque circiter 
10, tenuibus, petiolo 3 ad 5 mm longo; infructescentiis tenuibus, 
circiter 4 cm longis, lepidotis, capsulis paucis, circiter 6 mm 
diametro, brunneo-lepidotis, stylis 8 mm longis, trifidis. 
A shrub about 1 m high, the younger parts and the lower 
surface of the leaves more or less lepidote, branches terete, 
rather slender, glabrous, the branchlets rather densely lepi- 
dote with dark-brown, minute scales. Leaves narrowly lanceo- 
late, membranaceous, 10 to 15 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, pale 
when dry, subequally narrowed to the cuneate or abruptly obtuse 
base and to the slenderly caudate-acuminate apex, the upper 
surface glabrous, shining, the lower surface supplied with scat- 
tered, minute, white, shining, stellate scales which are closely 
appressed to the surface; lateral nerves very slender, about 10 
on each side of the midrib, distant, anastomosing; petioles 3 to 5 
mm long, biglandular at the apex. Infructescences in the upper- 
most axils or terminal, simple, slender, about 4 cm long, lepidote, 
the capsules few, about 6 mm in diameter, brown-lepidote, the 
persistent styles about 3 mm long, trifid. 
MINDANAO, Zamboanga District, Malangas, Bur. Sci. 36855 
(type), 37078 Ramos & Edajfio, October, 1919. Along the banks 
of rivers at low altitudes. 
