DECEMBER 23, 1911] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON PaLAWAN IstaNp 1299 
usually curved toward the top; 1 to 3 dm. long, green, softly pu- 
bescent; flowers usually grouped yet irregularly scattered especially 
toward the distal end, subsessile, subtended by 5 mm. long densely 
hairy bracts; pedicels also finely hairy, 1 to 2 mm. long; calyx 
greenish, united at the base, striate or veined, finely pubescent 
€specially along the margins; segments 4 mm. long, lanceolate, 
slenderly acuminate; ovary dark green, flattish, obscurely trigo- 
nous or subglobose, soft pubescent, with minute yellow glands; 
stigma sessile, 3, fleshy, 5 mm. long, twisted and strongly recurv- 
ed, glandular and pubescent on the nether side, the stigmatic | 
surface brush-like; cells 3; ovules 3, subpendant from a central 
placenta; capsule subglobose, trigonous, 3-celled and 3-seeded, 
about 12.5 mm. across. 
Type specimen 13017, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. 
Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
Discovered in shallow red damp soil underlaid with gravel 
stones along a densely wooded stream bank at from 750 to 1750 
feet altitude. Flourishes best on seepage ledges near pools over 
which the branches extend most profusely. Dedicated to 
Lieut. J. O. Lackey. 
Mallotus odoratus Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub; stem 3 to 5 em. thiek, 3 to 4 m. high, usually in 
clusters of few to several, branches arising from below the middle 
freely and laxly rebranched, the ascending tips puberulent or 
becoming subglabrous; wood soft, whitish, without odor or taste; 
bark grayish mottled, smooth or finely lenticelled, reddish brown 
on the branchlets, the old bark rather brittle, hypodermis green. 
Leaves alternatingly scattered, horizontal or mainly descending, 
ample, diverse in size, membranous, nearly flat, frequently some- 
what twisted toward the slenderly acuminate recurved apex, 
greenish brown upon drying, diverse in size but not in shape, 
the larger blades 15 em. long, 5 to 6 em. wide across the middle, 
oblong to ovately oblong but usually widest across the middle, 
base auriculately cordate, entire and slightly narrowed from 
the middle to base, above the middle subentire or obscurely den- 
tate, glabrous; midvein pronounced beneath, strigose; main 
lateral pairs about 6, strict, very oblique, nearly as prominent 
as the midvein and similarly hairy, the basal pair with 3 to 5 
