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THE PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, C. BOTANY. 
Vol. IX, No. 5, September, 1914. 
NOTES ON PHILIPPINE EUPHORBIACEAE, II 
By E. D. MERRILL * 
(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of 
Science, Manila, P. I.) 
The percentage of novelties in current collections as the botan- 
ical exploration of the Philippines progresses still continues 
to be rather high, especially in those collections received from 
regions previously but slightly or not at all explored botanic- 
ally. Two years ago the first paper under the above title was 
published,? in which one new genus and twenty-six new species 
were described. In this second paper of the series thirty-five 
new species are proposed, and the majority of the specimens on 
which the descriptions are based have been collected within 
the past two or three years. Notes are included on some of the 
older species, while the genus Tragia is new to the Philippines. 
New species are proposed in the following genera: Alcinaean- 
thus, Antidesma, Aporosa, Bridelia, Cleidion, Cleistanthus, Co- 
diaeum, Cyclostemon, Endospermum, Galearia, Glochidion, Ho- 
malanthus, Mallotus, Phyllanthus, Tragia, and Trigonostemon. 
ALCINAEANTHUS Merrill 
ALCINAEANTHUS PARVIFOLIUS sp. nov. 
Arbor dioica, ramulis junioribus inflorescentiisque exceptis 
glabra; foliis ellipticis ad oblongo-obovatis, 4 ad 6 cm longis, 
basi acutis, in pagina superiore 2-glandulosis, apice breviter 
acuminatis, margine distanter denticulatis, nervis utrinque 4 
vel 5; paniculis ¢ axillaribus terminalibusque, multifloris, an- 
guste pyramidatis, usque ad 5 cm longis. 
A dioecious tree, according to the collector 20 m in height, 
glabrous except the young branchlets and slightly pubescent 
staminate panicles. Branches terete, glabrous, grayish-brown, 
the young branchlets somewhat cinereous-pubescent or puber- 
ulent. Leaves oblong-obovate to elliptic, firmly chartaceous, 4 
to 6 cm long, 2 to 3.5 em wide, brownish when dry, base acute, 
* Associate Professor of Botany, University of the Philippines, Manila, 
Pad. 
* Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 379-410. 
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