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f ulvo-villosis ; petalis extus parce adpresse villosis; antheris 8; 

 tubo libero, truncato, quam petalis paullo brevioribus, extus parce 

 adpresse villoso. 



A tree, size not indicated, more or less fulvous-villous or hir- 

 sute with usually appressed hairs. Ultimate branches brown, 

 glabrous, up to 1 cm in diameter, the branchlets sparingly ful- 

 vous-villous, the very young leaves densely so. Leaves alternate, 

 up to 50 cm in length, the petioles, costa, midrib, and lateral 

 nerves on the lower surface prominently appressed fulvous- 

 villous; leaflets 4 to 8, possibly more on the older branches, 

 oblong, subcoriaceous, brownish when dry, exceedingly variable 

 in size, 10 to 22 cm long, 4 to 5 cm wide, entire, or the younger 

 ones prominently repand-undulate, acuminate, base acute to 

 rounded ; lateral nerves 8 to 15 on each side of the midrib, prom- 

 inent. Inflorescences narrowly paniculate, from tubercles on the 

 trunk and larger branches, sometimes axillary on the young 

 branchlets, 20 to 50 cm long, prominently fulvous-villous, the 

 branches scattered, few flowered, mostly under 4 cm in length, 

 slender. Flowers 4-merous, about 1.8 cm long. Calyx cup- 

 shaped, truncate, 4 to 5 mm long, rather densely appressed ful- 

 vous-villous. Petals 4, free or nearly so, about 18 mm long, 

 somewhat spatulate, apical portion rounded, 3 mm wide, out- 

 side, especially in the upper part, sparingly appressed-villous. 

 Staminal-tube cylindric, free, about 16 mm long, truncate, outside 

 appressed-villous. Stamens 8, the anthers oblong, 2 mm long. 

 Ovary (rudimentary) very densely villous-hirsute, the style about 

 as long as the staminal tube, appressed-villous in the lower two- 

 thirds, glabrous above,; stigma subcapitate. 



Samar, Catubig River, Bur. Sci. 2U57 (type), 21,519 Ramos, March, 

 1916, in forests at low altitudes near Las Navas, locally known as mala- 

 pauhauli. 



The alliance of this characteristic species is manifestly with Chisochiton 

 tetrapetalus Turcz., from which it differs not only in its cauline inflorescence, 

 but also in its prominent indumentum, its larger, fewer flowers, densely 

 villous ovary, petals sparingly villous externally, prominently pubescent 

 truncate calyx, and numerous other characters. 



EUPHORBIACEAE 



EXCOECARIA Linnaeus 

 EXCOECARIA STENOPHYLLA sp. nov. § Commia. 



Frutex glaber, monoicus ; f oliis alternis, subcoriaceis, integris, 

 lineari-lanceolatis, usque ad 11 cm longis et 1 cm latis, nitidis, 

 obtusis vel leviter acuminatis ; infiorescentiis axillaribus, racemis 

 2 ad 3 cm longis; floribus $ numerosis, bracteis 4-glandulosis, 



