678 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vox. II, Arr. 39 
scurfy and with appressed white hairs, oblong, the 2 nerves 
extending into sharply acuminate points. Inflorescence mostly 
clustered along the branchlets below the foliage; peduncles 
solitary or 2 to 3-clustered from the old leaf axils, sub- 
tended by short rather rigid bracts, 7.5 mm. long, quite 
thick and deep green in the fresh state, hispidly canescent; 
the staminate heads at least 1 cm. in diameter; bracts nearly 
3 mm. long, the outer ones broader and usually pubescent 
on the exposed dorsal sides, the inner ones narrower and with 
apical margins fimbriate; pedicels about 4 mm. long, subgla- a 
brous, slightly thickened toward the apex; flower articulate | 
and easily separating from the subpersistent pedicels; perianth 
nearly 3 mm. long, subglabrous and finely glandular, united 
toward the base, the 4 segments oblongish with acuminate 
apices; stamens 4, opposite the segments, slightly longer 
than the perianth, glabrous except the woolly matrix at the 
base, crinked above the middle; anthers elliptic, 1 mm. 
long, versatile; female flowers and fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 12282, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
Discovered in red soil underlaid with gravel and bowlders 
along the densely wooded banks of the Patoo river at 1000 
feet. 
Probably L. hispidissima Miq., but leaves in our speci- 
mens crowded toward the ends of the twigs and with much 
shorter petioles; branchlets hispidly hairy, not puberulous; 
and staminate heads apparently larger. 
EUPHORBIACEZE 
Macaranga noblei Elm. n. sp. 
A stocky flat-topped tree; stem 8 m. high, 3 dm. thick, 
subterete, strictly erect; branches from above the middle, 
crookedly rebranched, forming a widely spreading crown; 
twigs thick, grayish green, not numerously rebranched, the 
leaf bearing tips ascendingly curved; wood white, light, odor- 
less and tasteless; bark brown beneath the rather smooth 
grayish white mottled epidermis. Leaves chartaceous, horizon- 
