DECEMBER 23, 1911] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON PALAWAN IsLaND 1283 
__ Very near to C. cumingii Muell. Arg. but not to be confused 
with that species. 
CODIAEUM Rumph. 
Codiaeum palawanense Elm. n. sp. 
A suberect shrub; stem 5 em. thick, 3 to 4 m. high; branches 
very sparse, mainly at the top. Leaves not numerous yet crowd- 
ed toward the ends of the branches or stem, alternate, rotately 
spreading, subchartaceous, glabrous, dark velvety green above, 
much paler or yellowish so beneath when dry, entire, oblongish 
to oblanceolate, terminated by an obtuse point, baserather broad- 
ly obtuse and abruptly constricted, average blades 4.5 dm. long, 
1 dm. wide above the middle, gradually tapering toward the more 
suddenly constricted base; midvein brownish, ridged, very stout 
toward the base; lateral pairs 13 to 15, almost divaricate, slightly 
ascendingly curved, usually forked or few branched above the 
middle on the lower side, scarcely united, cross bars and reticula- 
tions very coarse and faint, all the veins equally visible from 
the upper side and bordered by pale yellow regions; petiole as- 
cending, glabrous, terete or flattish on the upper side, 6 em. 
thick, 5 em. long, leaving large sears after falling, usually provided 
below or from the side by a foliaceous sessile bract 2.5 em. long 
and obovate in shape. Spike terminal, erect, terete, greenish, 
striate, 5 to 8 dm. long, 6 mm. thick at the base, gradually reduced 
in thickness, glabrous, the basal one third sterile, also subtended 
by similar foliaceous braets; flowers clustered and irregularly 
scattered; pedicels 5 mm. long, striet, puberulent, usually subtend- 
ed by one or more minute bracteoles which are also puberulent 
and arising from irregular excrescences or finely cinereous lenticels; 
buds nearly globose; perianth segments 5, nearly free, imbricate, 
glabrous, ovately rotund, 5 mm. long, the inner ones a trifle 
smaller and thinner; stamens indefinite, centrally clustered; 
filaments subequal, glabrous, 1 to 2 mm. long, anthers basifixed, 
0.5 to 0.75 mm. long, broadly oblong, shallowly emarginate at 
apex, the 2 cells widely separating toward the base, longitudinally 
dehiscent; mature capsule flattish, 7.5 mm. high, 1 em. across, 
smooth, trigonous, 3-celled, 3-seeded, bearing 3 distinct sub- 
