IX, ©, 5 Merrill: Philippine Euphorbiaceae, II 475 
3, broadly ovate, about 2 mm long, acute; stamens very many; 
anthers 4-celled. Female inflorescences slender, about as long 
as the males, axillary, solitary; few-flowered, the flowers long- 
pedicelled. Sepals (persistent on young fruit) lanceolate, acum- 
inate, about 3.5 mm long. Ovary pubescent; styles cleft nearly 
to the base, the arms pubescent, about 1 cm long. Young fruit 
of three cocci, somewhat pubescent, the cocci ellipsoid, about 
6 mm long. 
Samar, Phil. Pl. 1648 Ramos, April, 1914 (type); For. Bur. 21052 
Sherfesee, Cenabre, & Cortes, April, 1914, locally known as dagumay. 
A species characterized by its narrow, elongated, lanceolate leaves, 
quite different in aspect and in details from the common Cleidion java- 
nicum Bl., which is widely distributed in the Philippines and otherwise 
the. only known species of the genus in the Archipelago. It grows at 
low and medium altitudes in thickets and forests near small streams. 
Both specimens present staminate and pistillate inflorescences, but in 
each case they are on separate branches, apparently taken from separate 
plants. ; 
CLEISTANTHUS Hooker f. 
CLEISTANTHUS SAMARENSIS sp. nov. 
Species ut videtur C. bridelifoliae C. B. Rob. affinis, differt 
foliis majoribus, usque ad 14 cm longis, nervis:' magis numer- 
osis, 11 ad 12 utrinque, petiolis densissime ferrugineo-villosis. 
A shrub or small tree, the branchlets, petioles, and flowers 
densely ferruginous- or fulvous-villous. Branches _ slender, 
terete, light-gray, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, subequally nar- 
rowed to the blunt-acuminate apex and to the narrowly rounded 
and usually minutely cordate base, chartaceous, 8 to 13 cm long, 
2 to 3.5 cm wide, the upper surface rather pale-gray and shining 
when dry, quite glabrous, the lower somewhat paler, shining, 
the midrib often slightly villous, especially near the base; lateral 
nerves 11 or 12 on each side of the midrib, distinct, anastomos- 
ing, curved, the reticulations distinct; petioles densely ferru- 
ginous-villous, up to 5 mm long; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 
pubescent, 3 mm long. Male and female flowers in the same 
fascicles, 5-merous, all sessile, the fascicles axillary, dense, up 
to 1 cm in diameter, with numerous, pubescent, exceedingly 
variable, broadly obovate to spatulate bracts and bracteoles 2 
to 4mm long. Female flowers about 5 mm long, pubescent, the 
lobes oblong-lanceolate, narrowed upward to the blunt apex, 2.5 
to 3 mm long, thick, glabrous inside. Petals ovate, membrana- 
ceous, truncate or broadly rounded, about 1 mm long. Ovary 
ovoid, densely hirsute with long, stiff, pale hairs, about 2 mm 
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