1298 LEAFLETS or Paitippine BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 68 
Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911; alsonumber 12702 
Brooks Point (Addison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
Collected in rather moist yet shallow soil with a gravelly or 
stony subsoil along wooded banks of cool streamlets at 750 feet | 
altitude. The Brooks Point specimen is more typical, the Puerto | 
Princesa specimens were found in the woods back of the seacoast. $ 
The Tagbanuas call it ‘‘Bagnau.” Number 13026 or the male 
flowers was collected a few rods from 13024 and is profusely flo- 
riferous just prior to the development of its foliage. Along this 
same stream there are probably ten pistillate trees to one sta- 
minate, and the pistillate are not deciduous as the staminate 
trees are. All are very aromatic especially so after being dried. 
A number of other species possess this same characteristic odor. 
Mallotus lackeyi Elm. n. sp. 
Tree-like shrub; stems 2 to 3-clustered, ascending, ulti- 
mately reclining over the creek bed, 1 dm. thick, 5 m. high, branch- 
ed from near the base; wood odorless and tasteless, white except 
the avellaneus heartwood, light, dry and rather soft; bark smooth- $ 
ish, grayish white except the testaceus inner portion; main branch- 
es numerously rebranched and recurved, the ultimate ones lax 
and suberect, the terminal portions velvety pubescent. Leaves 
alternate, mainly toward the ends of the rather short ultimate 
branchlets, soft submembranous or thinly chartaceous, much 
paler green beneath, drying greenish brown, flat or only the 
caudate tips recurved, diverse in size, peltate, short and finely 
tomentose beneath, subglabrous above, minutely sprinkled with 
glistening glands on both sides, entire or shallowly denticulate, 
at least the broad rounded base always entire, ovate to ovately 
oblong, the average blades 2 dm. long by 9 em. wide across the 
base; petioles ascending, soft hoary pubescent, about 5 em. long, 
attached to the leaf 1 em. from its basal edge; the midvein straight, 
the 7 to 9 oblique pairs strict and subparallel, the basal 2 pairs 
divergent and descending, the secondary from the lower side of 
the first or basal pair, of the ascending pairs usually 5 and rela- 
tively descending, cross bars also conspicuous, all pubescent 
beneath and slightly so on the upper side along the larger grooved 
nerves and midvein; bud bracts 7.5 mm. long, densely tomentose 
on the outside, acuminate, rather numerous. Spikes suberect, 
