DECEMBER 23, 1911] EUPHORBIACEAE CoLLECTED ON Parawan Istanp 1275 
the back and especially along the margins; calyx subglobose in 
the bud state, glabrate; segments prasineus, concave on the 
upper side, divided to the middle into 4 equal parts, 2 mm. 
long, the obtusely rounded tips inwardly curved, elliptically 
oblong; stamens 8, grouped about a sterile pistil; filaments 0.5 
mm. long, glabrous; anther deep yellow, about as long, broadly 
elliptic or oval, ends emarginate, dorsifixed, longitudinally and 
laterally dehiscent; short style thick as is also the stigma, some- 
what hairy; young fruit green but covered with fine cinereous 
hairs which in the dry state turns fulvus, obovoidly elongated, 
obscurely 3 or 4-angled, not hard, 1 em. long, bearing brown 
bilobed and recurved sessile stigmas, 3 or 4-celled, usually only 
I-seeded and pendant. 
Type specimens 12884 in flower and 13067 in young fruit, 
A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March 
and April, 1911. 
This tree is not rare in fertile soil of the humid forests 
at 750 feet altitude and along the trail to Napsan on the west 
coast of Palawan. 
ACALYPHA Linn. 
Acalypha stipulacea Klotz. 
Field-note:—A slender erect tree; stem terete, 3 inches thick, 
15 feet high, the main branches arising from the middle; wood soft, 
dingy white, odorless, a trifle sour; bark brown, with few gray 
blotches, smooth, with numerous fine grayish white lenticels, 
green except the epidermis, easily stripping; branchlets slender 
but not numerous, forming a flattish crown, brown except the 
suberect green twigs; leaves ample, mostly horizontal, submem- 
branous, recurved especially toward the apex, much paler beneath; 
spikes pale green, ascending but recurved toward the ends; the 
pistil greenish white, turning reddish when old; young fruits 
green, distincly trigonous. à 
Represented by number 12655, Elmer, Brooks Point (Addi- 
son Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
Inhabits fertile humus covered soil of dense woods at sea 
level. The Tagbanuas call it **Balingod." 
