DECEMBER 23, 1911] — EurHonRBIACEAE CoLLECTED ON Parawan Istanp 1297 
Mallotus moluccanus Muell. Arg. 
Field-note:—Small or medium sized tree; stem 1 foot thick, 
crooked, not terete, 30 feet high, with its main branches from the 
top only; wood yellowish or dingy white, odorless and without 
taste, moderately soft, light, splendid for cutting and carving 
purposes; bark yellowish gray mottled, thinly checked longitu- 
dinally, hypodermis yellow; branches not numerous but widely 
spreading, the ultimate ones slender, yellowish gray, the tips sub- 
erect; leaves horizontally spreading, subcoriaceous, folded upon 
the upper much darker green surface; inflorescence terminal, 
erect, all the stalks yellowish green and scurfy brown pubescent; 
flowers odorless, somewhat succulent; perianth pale green on the 
upper surface, the lower similar to the stalks; stamens light creamy 
yellow; fruit subpendulous, strongly trigonous, green, 3-celled, 
less than 0.5 inch across, flattened. : 
Represented by number 12666, Elmer, Brooks Point (Ad- 
dison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
Collected in damp black soil of dense forests at 25 feet al- 
titude near the coast. The Tagbanuas call it''Girangan." It is 
exceedingly hard to cure and consequently most herbarium speci- 
mens are in a somewhat rotten condition. 
Mallotus floribundus Muell. Arg. 
Field-note for 13024:—Usually small somewhat gnarly ap- 
pearing tree; stem 10 inches thick, 30 feet high, wadded, always 
extending a trifle over the creek bed, its main ascending branches 
arising from below the middle; branches numerously rebranched, 
widely spreading, forming a lax and flattish crown, the leaf bear- 
ing portion of the twigs green and suberect; wood moderately 
soft, white on the outside, gradually becoming yellowish toward 
the center, odorless and tasteless; bark grayish white mottled, 
latericius except the smooth epidermis, on the branches easily 
stripping; leaves horizontal or subpendant, curved upon the lower 
conspicuously glaucous green surface, shining and of a rich green 
above, the young foliage reddish tinged; inflorescence terminal, 
the stalks subglaucescent; the ovary and stigmatic brush yellow- 
ish, the ovary appendages subglaucescent. 
Represented by numbers 13024 and 13026, Elmer, Puerto 
