January 25, 1908] A Century or New PLANTS 310 
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the midrib; petiole persistent, 3 to 5 em. long, glabrous; 
stipules caducous, 5 mm. long, glabrous, sharply acuminate. 
Inflorescence in the lower leaf axils or more frequently on 
the second year old branchlets, ascending, spicately racemose; 
exceeding the petioles, 1 dm. long or frequently less; pe- 
duncle slender, glabrous; pedicels umbellately clustered at the 
apex though more or less scattered along the stalk, 1 to 1.5 
em. long, slender, glabrous, subtended by minute caducous 
bracts; pistillate flowers sessile, subtended by 4 bracts; ovary 
ovoid or subellipsoid, glaucously glabrous; style short, glaucous; 
stigma circinately 2-lobed, the rough brown stigmatic portion 
- on the ventral side; immature fruit fleshy, obovoid, 15 mm. 
long, one half that across above the middle, olive green; 
seeds imbedded at the base. 
Type specimen 8615, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. This alpine species is not 
D. glaucescens Blm. from which it is at once separated by 
its much larger membranous and acuminate leaves which 
are not glaucous underneath, slenderer petioles and with longer 
inflorescence. My number 8538 which is distributed as 
D. glaucescens Blm. was collected in the same region and 
may also prove to be different from Blwme’s species. 
Croton curtiflorus n. sp.—Tree like shrub or an erect 
tree 10 m. high, with rather short numerously branched 
ascending branchlets; wood finely grained; bark smooth or 
roughened, brown but often grayish white mottled. Leaves 
shining, chartaceous, darker green above, alternatingly scat- 
tered along the twigs, only the young leaves and terminal 
portion of the twigs sprinkled with yellow fringed scales, 
glabrous in age, margins entire and more or less recurved, 
oblong, the larger ones 10 cm. long and 4 cm. wide, apex 
obtuse to acute, base rounded or broadly obtuse; nerves 3 
to 7 on each side, conspicuous beneath, strict, united and 
extending only two thirds the distance from the base to 
the apex; petiole thick, densely covered with scales but 
ultimately becoming subglabrous, persistent, 5 to 8 mm. long. 
Inflorescence axillary, strict, 1 to 3 cm. in length, the racemes 
short and very sparingly branched; flowers dioecious upon 
the same stalk; the pistillate flowers subtended by ovate, 
