NEW Oil NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 283 



basal ones 8, prominent; nerves leaving the midrib above the base about 

 6 on each side, the reticulations distinct; petioles 10 to 15 cm long, 

 terete, pubescent. Inflorescence axillary and from the stems below the 

 leaves, the staminate fasciculate, dense, of very short racemose panicles 

 2 cm long or less, their branches 1 cm long or less, gray-pubescent; 

 bracteoles cuneate, pubescent, yellow-glandular, about 5 mm long, lacerate- 

 pectinate ; stamens few: pistillate inflorescence axillary and from the 

 axils below the leaves, racemose, usually solitary 3 cm long or less, 

 pubescent, each raceme few-flowered; pedicels stout, pubescent, 2 mm 

 long; calyx pubescent, cup-shaped, truncate, about 2.5 mm long; ovary 

 globose, densely yellowish waxy-glandular, 2- to 4-celled; styles recurved, 

 more or less pectinate ; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, lacerate-pectinate, 

 more or less pubescent, 6 to 8 mm long. 



Palawan, near Puerto Princesa, For. Bur. 3590, 3591 Curran, January, 1906, 

 in old. clearings at about 20 m .above sea level, the former with staminate flowers, 

 the latter with pistillate ones. 



This species probably belongs in the section Pachystcmon, although 2-, 3-, and 

 4-eelled ovaries were found on the same plant. It is well characterized by its 

 suborbicular, nearly entire or slightly 3-lobed leaves, and especially by its short, 

 congested, axillary and cauline inflorescences, the staminate being paniculate, and 

 the pistillate racemose. 



M ALLOT US Lour. 



Mallotus korthalsii Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 1 5 2 (1862) 976. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Aparri, For. Bur. 11012 Curran, February, 1909. 

 MINDANAO, District of Zamboanga, Port Bangs., For. Bur. 9011 Whitford d 

 Hutchinson, November, 1907. 



New to the Philippines; previously known only from Borneo and Celebes. 



MICRODESMIS Planch. 



M icrodesmis caseariaefolia Planch, in Hook. Ic. PI. (1844) sub. t. 158; 

 Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 1 5 2 (1862) 1041. 



Palawan, near Puerto Princesa, Bur. Sci. 249 Bermejos, December, 1905; 

 Mount Victoria, For. Bur. Jfl38 Curran, Bur. Sci. 132 Foxux>rthy, March, 1906. 

 Balabac, Merrill 5380, Qctober, 1906. 



Burma to southern China, the Malay Peninsula, and Borneo. The genus is 

 new to the Philippines except for a single specimen collected in Palawan by Vidal 

 and reported without specific name by Ceron; 8 Vidal's specimen in the Kew 

 herbarium, is apparently identical with the material here referred to Planchon's 

 species. 



OSTODES Bluine. 



Ostodes serrato-crenata sp. nov. 



Arbor subglabra 8 ad 12 m alta; foliis chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, in 

 sicco brunneis, nitidis, oblongis vel elliptico-oblongis, usque ad 30 cm 

 longis, basi acutis vel acuminatis, apice breviter acuminatis, margine 

 gross irregulariter crenato-serratis. dentibus glanduliferis ; nervis utrinque 



8 Cat. PI. Herb. (Manila) (1892) 151. 



