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into several, filiform, elongated lobes. Capsule about 2 mm long, hirsute, 
the seeds elliptic-oblong, 1.2 mm long, smooth and glabrous. 
BaTaNneEs ISLANDS, Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. Sci. 38607 Fénia 
(type), with staminate and pistillate spikes on the same branch, Bur. Sci. 3206 
Mearns, May, 1907, with pistillate spikes. A narrower-leaved form is apparently 
represented by Bur. Sci. 4084 Fénix, from Camiguin Island, Babuyanes, locally 
known as ajas. : 
These specimens were previously referred by me to Acalypha stipulacea Klotz., 
which they closely resemble in many respects, differing especially in the points 
noted in the diagnosis above. 
Acalypha australis Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 1004; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. 
Bot. 26 (1894) 437. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Bur. Sci. 7800, 7869 Ramos, April, 1909. 
Not previously reported from the Philippines; Manchuria and Japan to 
southern China. 
ALCHORNEA Muell.-Arg. 
Alchornea sicca (Blanco) comb. nov. 
Excoecaria sicca Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 787, ed. 2 (1845) 542, ed. 3, 3:94; 
Naves 1. c. ed. 3, pl. 307. 
Stipellaria parviflora Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. & Kew. Miscel. 6 (1854) 4. 
Alchornea parviflora Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 34 (1865) 168, DC. Prodr. 
15 *:902; Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 144, Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip. (1886) 
244; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 194. 
Alchornea mollis F.-Vill. 1. ¢., non Muell.-Arg. 
“Acalypha tiliaefolia Muell.-Arg.”; Vid. Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip. (1886) 244. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 3334, 5220 Ramos, Vidal 592, 1710 (herb. 
Kew.) , Loher 4667: Province of Laguna, Hlmer; Province of Pampanga, For. Bur. 
18314 Curran. Necros, Cuming 1800. 
Blanco’s description unmistakably applies to this species, and his name being 
the earliest one is here adopted. Cuming’s specimen was from Negros according 
to his own list of localities. The enumeration of “Acalypha tiliaefolia Muell.- 
Arg.” by Vidal seems to have been a slip for “Alchornea tiliaefolia Muell.-Arg.” 
There is no such species as “Acalypha tiliaefolia Muell.-Arg.” 
DIMORPHOCALYX Thwaites. 
Dimorphocalyx luzoniensis sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, dioica, circiter 12 m alta; foliis alternis, chartaceis, 
elliptico-ovatis, acuminatis, integris vel distanter obscureque denticulatis, 
nervis utrinque 10 ad 12; inflorescentiis axillaribus, racemoso-cymosis, 
quam folia brevioribus ; floribus masculinis circiter 8 mm longis, stamini- 
bus 15, filamentis in columna connatis sed exterioribus elongatis, fere 
liberis; floribus femineis albis, 2.5 em diametro, sepalis liberis, accres- 
centibus. 
A glabrous dioecious tree about 12 m high. Branches slender, terete, 
grayish-brown, somewhat lenticellate. Leaves alternate, elliptic-ovate, 
chartaceous, grayish or brownish and somewhat shining when dry, 10 to 
15 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, the base rounded or somewhat acute, the 
apex sharply acuminate, the margins entire or distantly denticulate with 
