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LEAFLETS or Pariprins BOTANY [Vor. II. Anar 20 
by bracts; bract 5 mm. long, lanceolate, 2 mm. wide toward 
the base, thick, yellowish pulverulent on both sides, : upon 
a narrowed and flattened stalk, usually bearing 3 pairs of 
large circular glands upon the upper surface; flowers numerous 
in a dense cluster, short stipitate, each subtended by minute 
bracteoles; calyx nearly 1 mm. long; the 3 segments oblong 
to elliptic, obtuse to rounded, united at the base, deeply- convex 
on the upper side; stamens 3, central, erect or ultimately | 
spreading out between the calyx segments; filaments glabrous, 
1 mm. long, somewhat flattened toward thé base; anthers 0.5 
mm. across, flattened, peltately attached, dehiscing from 
_ the apex into 4 false cells; pistillate flowers and fruits not seen. 
` Type specimen 9652, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 
1908. ; 
This species is very abundant and forms groves on a 
steep humid slope at 3500 feet elevation. Has only been seen 
in one place and does not extend much further down nor 
higher. > 
It is clearly allied to my M. loheri, but the leaves are more 
numerous, smaller, more uniformly caudate and characteristically 
white beneath. Number 9112 Elmer from Lucban was doubt- 
fully distributed under M. loheri Elm. and may prove to be 
a young fruiting specimen of this species. The northern 
Luzon mountain form is M. loheri Elm. and is also known 
from the Batanes islands, while M. caudatifolia Elm. extends 
from middle Luzon southwards. : 
Macaranga cuneata Elm. n. sp. 
Tree, 5 m. high; limbs spreading; wood whitish, soft; 
bark smooth and mottled; twigs tough, brown. Leaves de- 
escending, conduplicate on the upper side, tips recurved, shining 
green on the upper glabrous surface, paler.to subglaucous 
and glandular beneath, alternatingly scattered ‘along the ends of 
the twigs, subcoriaceous, broadly lanceolate, gradually tapering 
from below the middle to the acuminate or caudate ‘apex, base 
cuneate, margins entire and slightly involute, the larger blades 
12 cm. long by 5 cm. wide, quite variable in size; petiole 1 to 
3 cm. long, at first dirty yellowish puberulent, ultimately 
becoming glabrous, slender, terete; nerves brown in the dry 
