18 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Arr. 16 
ing; the appendages of the capsule are 5 mm. long, similarly 
pubescent, subligulate, flexible, rather numerous and persis- 
tent; seeds solitary in each cell, pendulous from the apex, 
subglobose, shining coal black, persistent long after the car- 
pels have been shed, 3 mm. in diameter; staminate flowers 
not seen. 
Type specimen 9215, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. It was growing in light 
woods of well drained soil on the higher inclines at 700 
meters. 
Mallotus eglandulosum n. sp.—^hrubs or small tices 
with numerous tough branches; branchlets grayish brown, 
covered with lighter colored lenticels. Leaves submembranous, 
flat, very unequal, the average blades 13 mm. long, 6 mm. 
wide across the middle, elliptie to oblong, nearly equally 
rounded toward both ends, abruptly terminated into acute 
or acuminate point, base obtuse, glabrous, much lighter green 
beneath, margins entire, alternatingly scattered along the 
branchlets, without basal glands; nerves 5 to 7 on each 
side, very pronounced beneath, ascendingly curved, cross 
bars fine but quite evident; petiole 3 cm. long, straight, 
thickened at the ends, subglabrous. Inflorescence axillary, 
3 to 5 cm. long or longer, sparsely and very shortly branch- 
ed, upon stout ascending woody stalks; female pedicels 7 
mm. long, pubescent, subtended by short sharply triangular 
bracts finely ciliate along the margins and on the midnerve; 
ovary 2 mm. thick, subglobose, similarly pubescent, sub- 
tended by 5 to 7 acute to acuminate 1.5 mm. long bracts; 
styles divided clear to the base, glabrous, granular, 5 mm. 
long, spreading; mature capsule much flattened, 1 cm. wide, 
7 mm. thick, strongly 3-lobed, muricate, septicidally dehis- 
cent, 3-celled; seeds 1 in each cell, subglobose, shining, 
about 4 mm. thick, streaked with gray and dark brown. 
Type specimen 7152, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. 
. Antidesma membranaefolium n. sp.—A shrub, 3 m. high, 
the branches rigid and crooked; wood whitish or the inner 
becoming red, easily breaking, covered with &mooth yellowish 
gray bark. Leaves membranous, scarious horizontally spread- 
