DECEMBER 23, 1911] EUPHORBIACEAE CouLECTED ON Parawan Istanp 1279 
terete, its main branches from the middle; wood moderately 
hard and heavy, yellowish especially the central mass, odor- 
less and without taste; bark grayish white mottled, roughened 
with lenticels or exerescences on the stem; branches divaricately 
spreading, freely rebranched, smooth, the ultimate glabrous 
ones slender yet quite rigid. Leaves alternatingly scattered along 
the branchlets, chartaceous, glabrous, curing dull green, as- 
cending or horizontal, the acute to acuminate tips recurved, 
otherwise nearly flat, when fresh a trifle paler green beneath, 
margins entire, base bluntly obtuse or rounded, the average 
blades 15 e m. long by 5 em. wide a trifle below the middle, ovately 
oblong or the smaller ones broadly lanceolate, glabrous; mid- 
vein conspicuous beneath, yellowish brown, the 5 to 7 lateral 
pairs oblique and tips ascendingly curved, reticulations rather 
fine and more evident from the upper side in the dry state; 
petiole 1.5 em. long, thickened at the distal end, glabrous, yellow- 
ish or dull purplish; bud bracts small, pubescent. Inflorescence 
axillary, glabrous, upon a short thick bracteated sparingly branch- 
ed 5 mm. long common stalk or peduncle; pedicels strict, 1 to 1.5 
em. long, very slender, also glabrous, subtended by finely hairy 
bracteoles, articulate at the base, slightly enlarged toward the 
distal end; buds globose; calyx yellowish green, glabrate, elliptic, 
7.5 mm. long, 5 mm. wide across the middle, more or less united 
at the base; the inner series of perianth cyathiform, nearly 1 em. 
across, irregularly divided into 4 or 5 very broad lobes, the basal 
one third united to the lower series, woolly pubescent especially 
on the upper side, the marginal one third subhyaline, 2-ply on 
the upper side the ends of which are toothed, free and inflexed; 
stamens 20, spreading; filaments 5 mm. long, dingy yellow, 
soft in texture and woolly hairy; anthers yellow, less than 2 
mm. long, sagittate but connected by the expanded distal por- 
tion of the filaments, obtuse at apex, glabrous, laterally dehis- 
cent, ovary or young fruits pale green, wrinkled and cinereous 
pubescent in the dry state, ovoidly ellipsoid, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. 
across, apparently 2-celled and 4-seeded; stigmas 2, sessile, 
subpersistent, dry, divaricately spreading, hard, brown, thick, 
glabrous, plaited, 1.5 mm. long, occasionally slightly forked at 
the apex; ovules pendant from the central placentae. 
Type specimens 13175 for flower and 12696 for young fruit, 
A. D. E. Elmer, the former from Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), 
