JANUARY 25, 1908] A CENTURY or New PLANTS 300 
Infrutescence terminal and subterminal, usually irom the 
leaf axils, subpendulous, spicate, solitary or several from the 
same base, the longer ones 15 cm. long, the individual spikes 
very sparingly branched, the branchlets subtended by foliaceous 
bracts; flowers ascending, scattered along the short yellowish 
pubescent rachis, with short thick pedicels or none; pedicels 
subtended by a whorl of short membranous bracts which 
apparently remain after the flowers have fallen; calyx com- 
paratively thin, glabrous, 4, nearly free, almost 3 mm. in 
length, 1.5 mm. wide across the base, ovate, deeply concave 
on the ventral side; corolla thick, rigid, soft villous, more 
or less united into a disk, much shorter than the calyx, 
with about.6 bluntly toothed segments; stamen of an equal 
number, inserted in the sinus; filaments glabrous, apparently 
unequal in length, the longer ones 1.5 mm. in length, the 
terminal portion incurved; anthers minute, elliptic, 0.5 mm, 
long, deciduous; ovary angular, densely vested with soft yel- 
lowish hairs; its apex trisuleate, each part with a short 
sublateral style bearing a large rugosely bilobed stigma; 
capsule triangularly ovoid, 1 mm. long, dehiscing from the 
apex along the quite prominent loculicidal suture, covered 
with a yellowish velvety pubescence when dry, purplish when 
fresh; seeds solitary in each of the 5 cells, surrounded by 
a light yellow coat, about 5 mm. long, base usually broad, 
apex with a minute point. 
Type specimen 7497, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. In wooded ravines at 700 
meters at the foot of Mount Banahao. 
EUPHORBIACEAE. 
Glochidion urophylloides n. sp.—Shrub, 3 to 5 m. high; 
slender branches smooth. Leaves scattered along the twigs, 
alternate, 2 to 5 cm. apart, submembranous, much varying 
in size at least, drying black, easily falling, ovate to oblong 
or the smaller ones elliptic, frequently inequilateral, apex 
obtuse or acute, base obtuse or rounded, glabrous, paler 
beneath, 3 to 5-nerved, upon glabrous 3 to 5 mm. long 
petioles subtended by short rather acute glabrous stipules. 
Flowers in axillary glomerules or in the axils of fallen 
leaves; the slender glabrous almost flexuose pedicels 5 mm. 
