DECEMBER 23, 1911] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON PALAWAN ISLAND 1281 
hairs; inflorescence erect, terminal, occasionally branched from 
near the base, of the same color, pedicels and calyx yellowish 
green; stamens sulphur yellow. 
Represented by number 12872, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Chiefly inhabiting rich humus covered soil of dense forests 
at 750 feet along the trail to Napsan. Its leaves are rather or- 
An and no doubt it could be trimmed to a fine appearing 
shrub. 
Croton (n. sp. in ms. by E. D. Merrill). 
Field-note:—A small erect tree; stem 8 inches thick, 25 
feet high, with its main branches from near the middle; branches 
at the top, numerously rebranched and forming an umbrella 
shaped crown; the twigs easily breaking and erect or suberect, 
occasionally subverticellately branched; wood quite soft, odorless 
and without taste, dingy yellowish white especially toward the 
center; bark smooth, gray and brown blotched, testaceus except 
the epidermis; blades ascending, flat, coriaceous, deep sublucid 
green above, much lighter beneath; inflorescence erect, the green 
more or less angular rachis descendingly arched toward the ends; 
calyx and bracts green; stamen and pistil pale green or yellowish 
so, the anthers more yellow; flowers slightly fragrant, the stigma 
turning brown with age. 
Represented by number 12788, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Collected in dry well drained soil of a thinly wooded flat 
at 250 feet altitude. 
Distinguished chiefly from C. ardisioides Hook. by the short- 
ter petioles, thicker leaves which are without the button shaped 
glands on the upper side of the basal end of the blade. The 
flowers seem also somewhat different, especially the staminate 
ones. 
Croton cuprea Elm. n. sp. 
Shrubby; stem 1 dm. thick, gnarly, 3 to 5 m. high, branched 
from below the middle; wood slightly odorous, tasteless, rather 
hard, yellowish on the outside, abruptly changing to a nearly 
