Novemssr 3, 1908] Six UNDESCRIBED SPECIES OF MACARANGA 499 
state on both sides, pronounced and glabrous beneath, 5 
to 7 pairs, very oblique, the basal pair provided with con- 
spicuous lateral ones on the lower side, faintly united be- 
neath the margin, cross bars and reticulations very obscure. 
Jnfrutescene erect or strongly ascending, straight, solitary from 
the leaf axils, reaching a length of 15 cm., dirty puberulent, 
unbranched, reddish, ultimately glabrous; male flowers not 
found; pistillate flowers in small alternating clusters which 
increase in numbers toward the apex, subtended by bracts; 
bracts 8 mm. long, 2 mm. wide toward the base, lanceo- 
late, very thick, on the upper surface provided with 2 to 3 
pairs of elongated glands, the base abruptly terminated into 
a short, flattened stalk; pedicels of fruits 1 to 2 em. in length, 
strict, ascendingly spreading, very slender, glabrous, thick- 
ened toward the end; calyx deeply and narrowly cup-shaped, 
encasing the basal portion of the ovary, subglabrous, usually 
terminated by 2 to 3 comparatively thin and irregular lobes 
which in the fruiting state become widely spreading; ovary 
obovoid, 1-celled, 1-ovuled, densely light yellowish glandular 
F or powdery (?), the 2 sides with small groups of circular 
f excrescences or glands (?); sterile cell dwarfed and in the 
f young stage sublaterally attached as a large blunt excrescence 
which becomes very much reduced or nearly obsolete in the 
fruiting state; fruits or capsules chiefly subglobose to short 
obovoid, often irregularly oblique, less than 5 mm. in diam- 
eter, glutinous, yellowish and spotted with wart-like reddish 
brown excrescences; nutlet «solitary, ellipsoid, coal black, 
finely rugose, surrounded by a smooth brown shell. 
Type specimen 9483, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 
1908. 
Rare in light woods. in between hemp fields at 3000 feet 
elevation. In Visayan, ‘“‘Belante.” 
Its affinities lie with M. cumingii Muell. Arg. and M. lo- 
heri Elm. However, it has not the leaves of the former, nor 
the leaves and pedicellate fruits of the latter. 
Macaranga cuernosensis Elm. n. sp. —— 
Tree, 10 to 15 m. high; trunk 6 dm. in diameter, brin a 
ed above the middle; wood moderately soft, easily cutting, oo 
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