434 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Art, 24 
involute, glabrous above, pubescent beneath especially on the 
nerves and retieulations, persistent; petiole 0.5 to 1 cm. in 
length, densely ferruginous pubescent but becoming glabrous 
with age and more or less scurfy, the basal one half very 
thick; nerves very prominent beneath, the midvein and the 
primary lateral ones dark brown, about 9 to 12 primary 
ones on each side, oblique, rather strict, their tips arched 
and united, reticulations numerous, very evident. Young 
infrutescence terminal, 2 to 5 cm. long, densely reddish brown 
pubescent; peduncle strict, comparatively thick, terminated 
by a single young fruit; its bracts triangularly obtuse or 
acute, similarly pubescent on the outer sides, glabrous on the 
inner surface, stiff, brown; fruit sessile, its base substipitate, 
oblique or laterally compressed, 1 cm. high, about as wide, 
apex truncate and with an apiculate style, 2-celled, 1 seed 
in each cell, densely covered with a maroon velvety pubes- 
tence; stigma several sulcate or with several very short lobes 
which are glabrous; calyx subpersistent, of about 5 segments, 
the lobes triangular and 4 mm. in length. 
Type specimen 7931, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
Very rare, and an undershrub of deep woods at 2400 
feet on mount Banahao. 
EUPHORBIACEJE. 
ELATERIOSPERMUM Bim. 
Elateriospermum paucinervia Elm. n. sp. 
A round topped tree, 6 m. high, with hard wood; ulti- 
mate branches rather numerous and quite rigid, with glabrous 
smooth brown bark. Leaves subopposed, never verticellate, 
glabrous, coriaceous, obovate, quite unequal in size, chartaceous, 
darker shining green on the upper side, the margins entire 
and subinvolute, the apex rounded and terminated by a short 
obtuse point, base cuneate, the larger blades 15 cm. long, 
about one half that in width above the middle; petiole 3 
em. long, suberect, glabrous, terete, swollen and usually 
curved at the top, articulate at the base; veins ascendingly 
