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NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 191 
Merrill 1704, 5046, and For. Bur. 420, 2660 Ahern’s collector. H. madablota Vid. 
Sinopsis Atlas (1883) t. 22, f. A. (non Gaertn.) manifestly represents the same 
form as the four specimens above mentioned. 
8. Hiptage luzonica Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 (1905) 33, Philip. 
Journ. Sei. 1 (1906) Suppl. 74. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Whitford 1148. 
This species is known only from the original collection, and the type is possibly 
only-a dwarfed state of the Rizal form discussed above under H. javanica BI. 
A full series of specimens will be necessary definitely to settle this point. So 
far as our material goes, H. luzonica is distinguishable by its small leaves. 
HipraGE MADABLOTA Gaertn. (=H. benghalensis (L.) O, Ktze.) has been ered- 
ited to the Archipelago by various authors, but I have seen no Philippine material 
that I consider to be referable to that species. The plant so figured by Vidal 
in his “Sinopsis Atlas” unquestionably represents the Luzon form discussed under 
H. javanica, while the plant so identified by him in his “Phanerogamae Cumin- 
gianae Philippinarum” has above been made the type of a new species, H. cumingii. 
The form so credited to the Philippines by F.-Villar in the “Novissima Appendix” 
is doubtless, for most part, the same as that figured by Vidal, as the specimens 
F.-Villar examined came from the Province of Manila (=Rizal). re 
Triopteris jamaicensis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 379, ed. 2 (1845) 207, non 
Linn., is manifestly Hiptage, although not H. madablota Gaertn., where it was 
referred by F.-Villar. It is probably the form figured by Vidal, mentioned above, 
as this is apparently the only species of the genus that is at all common in the 
region from which Blanco secured most of his material. 
EUPHORBIACE. 
ACALYPHA Linn. 
Acalypha grandibracteata sp. noy. 
Species A. stipulaceae valde affinis, differt foliis latioribus, basi cordatis 
vel subcordatis, bracteis multo majoribus, usque ad 1 ad 2 cm longis. 
A shrub or small tree, slightly puberulent or pubescent. ' Branches 
pale or reddish-brown, puberulent, sometimes stout and thickened. 
Leaves broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, chartaceous or submembranaceous, 
12 to 20 em long, 7 to 15 em wide, with minute, scattered, white pustules 
on both surfaces, and with very few, scattered, long hairs, the margins 
regularly and rather finely crenate-serrate, the apex acuminate, the base 
broad and cordate or subcordate, palmately 7- or 9-nerved from the base ; 
petioles 20 cm in length or less; stipules linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 
1.5 to 2 cm long. Staminate and pistillate spikes on the same plant, or 
apparently more often on separate plants, the staminate ones dense, cylin- 
dric, pubescent, often 20 cm long, about 3 mm in diameter, the flowers 
3- or 4-merous. Pistillate spikes peduncled, stout, 20 em long or less, 
about 2 em in diameter, the bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, toothed, 
about 1 cm long, the lowermost ones sometimes 2 cm in length, more 
or less appressed-hirsute on the back, the pistillate flowers solitary in 
the axil of each bract. Ovary hirsute; styles nearly 3 mm long, split 
