DECEMBER 23, 1911] EvpHorptacran CoLLECTED ON Parawan Istanp 1295 
MACARANGA Thour. 
Macaranga tomentosa Muell. Arg. 
Field-note:—A small erect or ascending tree; stem 10 inches 
thiek, 20 feet high, widely branched from above the middle; 
wood soft and light, white, odorless and tasteless; bark gray 
mottled, brown except the epidermis, roughened with excres- 
cences; branches numerous, forming an umbrella crown, smooth, 
dark green and occasionally glaucous, the twigs ascendingly 
curved; blades pendant, soft membranous, deep green on the 
outer side, glaucous green beneath, veins yellowish white; in- 
florescenee ascending, yellowish green, the anthers deeper 
yellow. 
Represented by number 12694, Elmer, Brooks Point (Addi- 
son Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
This tree was found in moist subsaline soil fronting 
the dense beach woods. Its vernacular Tagbanua name is 
“Binwau.”’ 
Macaranga hispida Muell. Arg. 
Field-note:—Small tree; stem 6 inches thick, 20 feet high, 
terete, its main branches arising from below the middle; wood 
light, odorless and tasteless, silvery white, very soft; bark very 
smooth, grayish white, with a green hypodermis; larger branches 
Widely spreading, sparingly rebranched; the branchlets very 
slender, withsuberect tips, the twigs have hispid hairs somewhat 
stinging in effect; leaves diverse in size, upon ascending yellow- 
ish green petioles, blades horizontal, mostly flat, darker green 
above, the larger ones 2 feet long; infrutescence upon pale 
green ascending peduncles, usually solitary; the compressed and 
roundly 3-angled capsule covered with a sulphureus powder 
and light green appendages; the green smooth perianth of 
the ovary early falling; the 3 or4 recurved stigmas nearly 
sulphureus. 
Represented by number 12987, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
In moist soil covered with low soft grass species of open 
woods of a small ereek bottom at 250 feet. 
