JANUARY 25, 1908] A CENTURY or New PLANTS 312 
very short, glabrous, 4-cleft, dark brown when dry; ovary 
short but densely tomentose; capsule obovoid, about 1 em. 
long, 3-celled, short pubescent but finally nearly glabrous; 
seeds one in each cell, subterete in outline, 6 mm. in dia- 
meter, subtruncate and with a median ridge at the base, 
inner sides nearly flat, smooth, streaked with gray and 
black. 
Type specimen 7264, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. An undershrub of the woods 
at 330 meters about six miles beyond Palo. 
Croton appendiculatus n. sp.—Shrub, 5 m. high, num- 
erously and ultimately slenderly branched; wood soft and 
white, with grayish white bark. Leaves alternate, very un- 
equal in size, ovate to ovately lanceolate, submembranous, 
the average blade 12 cm. long, 6 cm. wide below the 
middle, the apical portion gradually tapering to a slender 
acuminate point, the base cuneately rcunded or subtruncate, 
margins entire, green and glabrous on the upper surface, 
but dull green when dry, light ashy gray and short tomen- 
tose beneath, a pair of black glands on the upper surface 
at the base; petiole and younger portion of twigs light 
gray, similarly pubescent, the former 2 to 15 em. long, 
terete; veins 5 to 7 on each side of the stout midvein, much 
ascendin™, obscurely united, the cross bars and reticulations 
faint, the basal pair usually with lateral veinlets from the 
lower side. Infrutescence slender, equalling or exceeding the 
foliage, mostly from the leaf axils, paniculate, the branchlets 
slender and subpendulous, short yellowish gray tomentose, 
the branchlets very sparingly rebranched; pedicels  scurfy 
pubescent, 3 to 5 mm. long; calyx persistent, spreading 
when in fruit, similarly. pubescent, united at the base, 3-seg- 
mented, the lobes triangularly acute and 1 to 2 mm. in 
length; style 2 to 8 mm. long, nearly 3-cleft to the base, 
rather thick and rigid, the outer side brown scurfy pubes- 
cent, dark brown ciliate on the inner surfaces; capsule 
trigonous, ashy gray, covered with a very short scurfy or 
stellate pubescence, compressed, about 8 mm. thick without 
the appendages, primarily septicidally dehiscing but ulti- 
mately also loculicidally, leaving the central placenta stand- 
