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the petioles 3 to 6 cm long, inserted 0.3 to 1 cm from the margin 
and with two conspicuous glands at the juncture with the 
lamina; lateral nerves 6 to 8 on each side of the midrib, con- 
spicuous. Inflorescences up to 10 cm long. Staminate flowers 
numerous, about 1.5 mm in diameter, their pedicels up to 3 mm 
long, the bracts small, entire, 1-flowered, each with two con- 
spicuous contiguous glands; sepal 1, orbicular-reniform, about 1 
mm in diameter; stamens about 30, the anthers subsessile, 
minutely papillate. Fruits 8 to 10 at the base of the inflores- 
cence, subglobose, about 5 mm in diameter, their pedicels about 
4 mm long; styles very early deciduous, not seen. 
MINDANAO, Bukidnon Subprovince, near Tankulan, Bur. Sci. 
39166 Ramos & Edafo, July, 1920, with the local name labagti. 
Habitat not recorded, altitude indicated as about 1,000 meters. 
ALCHORNEA Swartz 
ALCHORNEA PUBESCENS sp. nov. § Cladodes. 
Species A. rugosae affinis, differt ramulis et infructescentiis 
et subtus foliis molliter subferrugineo-villosis, foliis caudato- 
acuminatis, nervis magis numerosis, utrinque circiter 15. 
A shrub about 3 m high, the branchlets, inflorescences, and 
lower surface of the leaves softly subferruginous-villous, the 
indumentum often dense. Leaves oblanceolate, 17 to 25 cm 
long, 3 to 6 cm wide, slenderly caudate-acuminate, the acumen 
often falcate, narrowed below to the abruptly auriculate-cordate 
base, the margins distantly glandular-toothed, the upper surface 
glabrous except for the slightly hirsute midrib, olivaceous, the 
base with 1 or 2 conspicuous glands and usually with 1 or 2 
similar glands between each pair of nerves in the lower one- 
half to two-thirds; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent, curved, arched-anastomosing, the primary 
reticulations also prominent; petioles densely pubescent, 
‘ about 5 mm long; stipules linear, pubescent, 7 to 10 mm long. 
Pistillate inflorescences terminal or subterminal, more or less 
pubescent, spiciform, 7 to 10 cm long, each flower subtended by 
a pair of conspicuous glands. Fruits depressed-globose, about 
9 mm wide, pubescent, the style arms 3, slightly pubescent, 
about 5 mm long. 
LUZON, Cagayan Province, Pefiablanca, For. Bur. 22724 Cas- 
tillo, April 28, 1915. On slopes at low altitudes. 
A species very similar and manifestly closely allied to Alchor- 
nea rugosa Muell.-Arg. from which it differs in its softly 
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