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Stamens about 100; filaments free, glabrous, about 3 mm. long; anther cells on the 

 margin of the rather broad connective, parallel, the cells somewhat confluent at 

 the apex, the filaments straight in bud, (he anthers erect, the disk glands about 

 1 nun. long. Female inflorescence similar to the male but the pedicels shorter, the 

 flowers solitary, scattered, the bracts minute or wanting. Ovary densely hirsute. 

 3-lobed, 3 celled; style arms 6, slender, glabrous, about 2.5 nun. long. Fruit dry. 

 3-celled, dehiscent, about 1 cm. in diameter, glabrous. Seed about 6 mm. long, 

 pale brown, marked with reddish brown dashes. 



(2216) Meyer) December: (1908 Borden) September; (273 Whitford) May; 

 (0886 Elmer) November: (2517 Merrill) dune; (Copekmd) February. In for- 

 ests 300 to 000 m. Difl'ering from typical CodtOEUm in the absence of the petals 

 and in the numerous stamens. 



24. DIMORPHOCALYX Thwaites. 



I. Dimorphocalyx longipes Merrill, sp. nov. 



A tree 10 to 12 m. high. Branches brown, glabrous, the younger parts often 

 slightly pubescent. Leaves alternate, long petiolate. oblong, entire, or slightly, 

 obscurely repand-crenate and with distant minute glandular teeth, the apex short 

 acuminate, the base acute or obtuse, glabrous, shining, submembranous, dark 

 colored when dry, 9 to 20 cm. long. 3 to cm. wide: nerves 11 to 12 on each side 

 of the midrib, distant, distinct beneath, anastomosing, the reticulations very lax: 

 petioles 2 to 10 cm. long, slender, glabrous. Dioecious. Male inflorescence axil- 

 lary, spicate, 3 to 10 em. long, glabrous or slightly pubescent, the flowers purplish, 

 sessile in fascicles of from 3 to 6 or more, the bracts small. Sepals 5. slightly 

 united below, oblong ovate to obovate, obtuse, 2 to 2.5 nun. long. Petals 5. imbri- 

 cate, free, obtuse, glabrous, elliptical ovate, about 2.5 mm. long. Stamens 5. the 

 filaments very short and united or wanting, the anthers more or less united in a 

 globose head 1 mm. in diameter, the cells parallel, not confluent, Pistillate 

 inflorescence a narrow panicle, or a reduced raceme or spike. 5 to 1.") cm. long, the 

 bracts oblong, foliaceous, persistent, 5 to 8 mm. long, the flowers solitary or fas- 

 cicled, sessile or pedicelled. Calyx and corolla of the male. Ovary 3-celled, 1 

 ovule in each cell, the styles very short, 3, erect, each cleft. Sepals accrescent 

 persistent, about 5 mm. long in young fruit. 



(1066 Whitford) January; (1801 Borden) September. In forests 175 to 250 

 m. No. 2690 Merrill. Bosoboso, Province of Rizal, Luzon, is apparently the same. 



25. ENDOSPERMUM Benthj 



1. E. peltatum Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 25 (1905) 35. 



(710, 1669, 1672, 1747, 2754 Borden) May, August, March. In forests 100 to 

 200 m. Endemic. T.. Callucoy. 



26. EXCCECARIA Linn. 



1. E. agallocha Linn.: Muell. Arg. 1. c. 1220. 



(1271 Whitford) May. In thickets along the seashore, generally distributed 

 throughout, the Philippines. Tropical shores of Asia, Malaya, Australia, and 

 Polynesia. T.. Butabala. 



2. Excoecaria philippinensis Merrill sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree 3 to 8 m. high. Branches brown, striate, glabrous. 

 Leaves alternate, oblong lanceolate to oblong oblanccolate, short blunt acuminate, 

 gradually narrowed below r to the acute base, entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous, pale 

 wdien dry and somewhat shining, 7 to 20 cm. long, 1.5 to 4.5 cm. wide; nerves 

 18 to 20 on each side of the midrib, distant, spreading, indistinct, anastomosing, 

 the reticulations somewhat lax; petioles 1 to 3 cm. long, usually slender, glabrous. 



