DECEMBER 23, 1911] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON Parawan Istanp 1285 
cluster, ascending or widely spreading, few inches thick, terete, 
15 feet long, branched from below the middle; wood quite hard 
and heavy, the outside sappy white, the greater central portion 
dull incarnatus, without odor or taste; branchlets laxly spreading; 
bark thin, yellowish brown, more or less minutely checked; 
castaneus except the epidermis; leaves thinly coriaceous, flat, 
deep green above, much paler beneath, horizontal or descending; 
young fruits solitary in the leaf axils, subtended by dry brown 
scales; the capsule erect, shining and very pale green, roundly 
3-lobed, less than 0.5 inch across, 3 celled, 1 or 2 ovules in each. 
Represented by numbers 12988 and 12888, Elmer, Puerto 
Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March and April, 1911. 
Collected in very fertile soil covered with humus in a dense- 
ly wooded creek bottom at 250 feet. Number 12888 was 
gathered in dense humid forests at 750 feet altitude. 
DAPHNIPHYLLUM Bim. 
Daphniphyllum glaucescens Blim. 
Field-note:—A rigid interlaced shrub; leaves rigid, very 
shining green above which in the dry state is jet black, glauces- 
cent beneath; spikes axillary, much shorter than the foliage, 
greenish. 
Represented by 13194, Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), 
Palawan, May, 1911. 
On the summit of mount Pulgar at 4250 feet. 
DIMORPHOCALYX Thw. 
Dimorphocalyx murina Elm. n. sp. 
An erect slender tree; stem terete, 1 dm. thick, 7 m. high, 
with its main branches from below the middle; branches numer- 
ously rebranched and spreading, the ultimate ones suberect and 
young tips glabrous; wood moderately soft yet solid and quite 
heavy, the outer one half sappy white, the balance yellowish 
tinged, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, yellowish gray or 
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