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4-toothed, pubescent. Petals 4, free, pubescent outside, 3 to 3.5 
mm wide, obtuse. Staminal tube cylindric, 7 mm long, glabrous, 
truncate, the stamens 8, inserted below the apex, the anthers 
sessile, less than 1 mm long. Disk shallow, glabrous, crenulate, 
1.5 mm high, about 2 mm in diameter, free. Ovary hirsute; 
style 5 mm long, hirsute below, glabrous above. 
LEYTE, Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 642, March 21, 1914, in forests, altitude 
about 500 meters. 
In C, DeCandolle’s arrangement this species falls in the group with 
Dysoxylum pallens Hiern and D. flavescens Hiern, but is apparently not 
closely allied to either. In general aspect it is nearest to the Philippine 
Dysoxylum pyriforme Merr., but has an entirely different inflorescence 
and flowers. 
EUPHORBIACEAE 
APOROSA Blume 
' APOROSA LEYTENSIS sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 7 m alta, ramulis inflorescentiisque dense pubes- 
centibus ; foliis chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, usque ad 15 cm longis, 
oblongis ad elliptico-oblongis vel lanceolato-oblongis, tenuiter 
acuminatis, basi rotundatis, integris, subtus ad costa nervisque 
pubescentibus, nervis utrinque 8 vel 9, prominentibus; inflores- 
centiis ¢ et @ axillaribus, fasciculatis vel subsolitariis, usque 
ad 4 cm longis, spicatis, ovario densissime hirsuto. 
A dioecious tree about 7 m high, the branches terete, glabrous, 
pale-brown, the branchlets pubescent. Leaves oblong to elliptic- 
oblong or even oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, 
10 to 15 cm long, 3.5 to 6.5 cm wide, entire, apex rather slenderly 
acuminate, base rounded, rather pale when dry, shining, the 
lower surface pubescent on the midrib and lateral nerves; lateral 
nerves 8 or 9 on each side of the midrib, prominent, anasto- 
mosing, the reticulations distinct; petioles pubescent, about 8 
mm long. Staminate and pistillate inflorescences axillary, spi- 
cate, densely pale ferruginous-pubescent, up to 4 cm long, fas- 
cicled or sometimes subsolitary. Female flowers 4-merous, the 
calyx teeth broadly ovate, acute, 1 mm long, the ovary narrowly 
ovoid densely pale-pubescent, the flowers shortly pedicelled, the 
subtending bracteoles up to 1.2 mm long and 3 mm wide. 
LEYTE, Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 614 (type) female flowers, 587 male flowers 
(very young), March and February, 1914, in forests, altitude 500 to 600 
meters. : 
Apparently most closely allied to Aporosa microcalyx Hassk., among 
the Philippines species, differing in its more slenderly acuminate leaves 
which are quite entire, and in its very much longer spicate or spike-like 
inflorescences. 
