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DECEMBER 23, 1911] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON PALAWAN ISLAND 1287 
stigmas 3-forked, sessile, flatly spreading, main arms flattened, 
glabrous on the upper side, pubescent otherwise. 
Type specimens 12773 in flower and 13156 in fruit, A. D. 
E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March and 
May respectively, 1911; also number 12844 from the same 
loeality. 
Discovered all three specimens in moist humus covered 
soil in dense forests or along stream depressions from 500 to 
1750 feet elevation. 
Numbers 12844 and 12773 are alike, the fruiting specimen 
is a little different, all are quite distinet from D. luzoniensis Merr. 
EXCOECARIA Linn. 
, Excoecaria philippinensis Merr. 
Field-note:—Erect or suberect small tree; stem terete, 6 
inches thick, 15 feet high, its few main branches arising from 
the middle; wood light, soft, without odor or taste, the sapwood 
white, becoming testaceus toward the center; bark thick, milky, 
dull brown and deeply checked on the surface, the middle region 
latericius; leaves ascending, coriaceous, flat, dark green above, 
yellowish so beneath; spikes erect, strict, mostly terminal, pale 
green, the anthers deep yellow. 
Represented by number 13124, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
Rare in stony red soil of secondary forests at 250 feet altitude. 
FLUGGEA Willd. 
Fluggea virosa (Willd.) Baill. 
Field-note:—Low shrub-like tree; stem 10 inches thick, 
nearly 20 feet high, with its main branches arising from below 
the middle, finely and numerously rebranched toward the top; 
wood testaceus or incarnatus toward the center, rather hard 
and heavy, odorless, bitterish; bark of the same color even on 
the smooth outside, sealing in plates; branchlets very lax and 
