311 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Art 16 
less scaly covered bracts about 4 mm. long; the calyx sub- 
fusiform, with golden yellow scales, bracteolate, terminated by 
deciduous ligulate 2 mm. long segments; petals none; ovary 
soft adpressed pubescent; style cleft clear to the base, glabrous, 
striate, more or less twisted, dark brown and granular along 
the stigmatic side, about 1 em. long; subtending scales of 
the male flowers smaller, the short calyx with shorter seg- 
ments; stamens about 10 or fewer; filaments at first falsely 
united, soon becoming free, unequal in length, the longer 
ones 4 mm., glabrous; anther persistent, basifixed, bluntly 
apiculate, tlattened, ovate from the side, dehiscing along the 
lateral sides, reddish brown. 
Type specimen 8651, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. Among thickets along streams 
of the pine region about Baguio. The foliage is covered 
more or less with bladders. 
Croton longipedunculatus n. sp.—Shrubs, 3 to 5m. high; 
branches yellowish, the younger parts scurfy pubescent and 
more or less ridged. Leaves mostly toward the ends of the 
twigs, flat, subcoriaceous, oblanceolate, the smaller ones a 
few cm. long, the larger ones 3 dm. in length, the margins 
subentire or erenately undulate, about 9 cm. wide above the 
middle, apex acute, the base cuneate, glabrous above when 
old or with a few strigose hairs, beneath sparsely pubes- 
cent with yellowish hairs; lateral nerves 15 to 17 pairs, more 
prominent beneath, ascending and reticulately united at their 
ends with melleus colored adpressed hairs, midrib very stout; 
petiole at most 2 em. long, stout, ridged, usually upwardly 
curved, scurfy pubescent; peduncles solitary from the lower 
leaf axils, subpendulous, somewhat compressed, pubescent, 1 
to 3 dm. long, bract and flower bearing above the middle; 
secondary peduncles usually less than 1 em. in length, 
ascending, ciliate pubescent, bearing several flowers, the lower 
ones subtended by foliaceous bracts, the upper ones triangu- 
larly acuminate to setaceous; pedicels of fruits 15 mm. 
long, gradually thickened from the base, subtended by a 
whorl of 3 short acute ciliate bracts, similarly pubescent; 
petals imbricate, 1.5 mm. long, nearly as broad, very convex 
on the back, the outer ones hairy and subpersistent; styles 
