DECEMBER 23, 1911] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON PALAWAN Istanp 1291 
dehiscent and yellow, the connectives protruding into 3 short 
blunt and deep brown nearly free points; fruits clustered along 
the upper side of the branchlets at the leaf axils, stramineus 
to white, flattish globose, 1.75 em. across but often less, glabrous, 
more or less irregular and the sunken apical portion tinged 
with light purple, normally 5 or 6-celled and with 2 seeds in 
each; seeds 6 mm. thick, angular on the inner sides, convex on 
the dorsal side, shining, aurantiacus. 
Type specimen 12804, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Discovered in stone gravelly soil and fronting the wooded 
banks of the Iwahig river at 500 feet. Rare! 
As near to G. merrillii C. B. Rob. as to any other of our 
Philippine species. 
Glochidion pulgarense Elm. n. sp. 
A low rigid shrub; ultimate branchlets numerous, erect, 
glabrous, relatively short, nearly black when dry. Leaves 
copious, alternatingly scattered, glabrous, quite rigid, darker 
green on the upper side, turning blackish while curing, elliptic 
Or obovately so, margins entire, apex rounded, base obtuse, 
diverse in size, the normal mature blades 4 em. long, 2.5 em. 
wide across the middle or just above it; midvein brownish black, 
conspicuous beneath; lateral nerves 3 to 5 on each side, similar 
in color, rather obscure, divaricate or the basal pair oblique, 
quite straight but usually irregularly forked toward the distal 
ends and more or less interarching, reticulations coarse and 
still more obscure; petiole only 1 to 3 mm. long; stipules triangular- 
ly acuminate, only 1 to 2 mm. long, rigid and thick, glabrous 
or minutely ciliate along the margins; buds subtended by numer- 
ous imbricated similar bracts. Male flowers upon glabrous 
2 mm. long pedicels, subtended by stipular bracts, from the axils 
of the uppermost leaves or in small clusters along nearly leafless 
dwarfed branchlets; female flowers sessile, the glabrous subangular 
style 4 mm. long, erect, minutely 3-toothed at apex; perianth 
segments united at the base, 6, the inner 3 usually smaller, thick, 
rigid, glabrous, imbrieate, elliptically oblong, with roundly obtuse 
apices, in anthesis spreading and only slightly recurved, 3 mm. 
long by one half as wide across the middle; stamens 3, in an erect 
