1280 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vou. IV, ArT. 68 
the latter from Brooks Point (Addison Peak), Palawan, May 
and February respectively, 1911. . 
The first number cited was collected in fertile forests at 3 
250 feet altitude and the Brooks Point specimen in sandy soil 
of woods skirting the coast. The Tagbanuas or natives of south- 
ern Palawan call it “Magluny.” 
Apparently it differs from other Cyclostemon species known 
to me and whether or not the two numbers represent but one 
species of different sexes I do not know. 
CROTON Linn. 
Croton leiophyllus Muell. Arg. 
Field-note:—Small tree; stem 8 inches thick and 25 feet 
high; branches above the middle, quite numerous and forming 
a dense crown; wood light and white, odorless and tasteless; 
bark yellowish or grayish white, brown beneath the epidermis; 
branchlets ascending, relatively short; leaves pendant or horizon- ! 
tal tips recurved and conduplieate on the upper side, a trifle 4 
paler green beneath, coriaceous; spikes angularly striate, green, 
ascending and gracefully recurved; buds and flowers pistillate, 
odorless, green. 
Represented by number 12725, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Scattered throughout the thin woods upon shallow red soil 
with a stony subsoil at 250 feet altitude. 
Croton argyratus Bim. 
Field-note:—Quite slender trees, with widely spreading 
crowns; stem crooked, terete, 5 inches thick, 20 feet high, 
branched above the middle; wood yellowish white, soft, light, 
odorless, slightly acrid; bark gray, covered with rough excres- 
cences, badius except the epidermis; main branches slender, 
ascending and spreading, the ultimate ones lax and relatively 
short; leaves horizontally spreading, chartaceous, deep green 
on the upper shallowly folded surface, avellaneus beneath, tips 
recurved, the petiole and veins covered with cupreus scales or 
