1300 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 68 
secondary nerves on their lower sides, cross bars faint and nearly 
glabrous; petiole 1 to 3 cm. long or longer, terete, finely pubescent. 
Inflorescence green, erect or suberect, terminal; spikes slender, 
usually clustered and unbranched, 3 to 5 em. long, short stel- ’ 
lately pubescent; flowers rather crowded especially toward the 
top, solitary or 2 or 3-clustered, subtended by short relatively 
broad grayish white pubescent bracts; the ovoidly globose buds 
similarly hairy; pedicels slender, 2 mm. long, shortly but densely 
stellate pubescent; sepals 3, nearly free, elliptic, acute or obtuse 
at apex, 2 mm. long by 1.25 mm. wide across the middle, 
yellowish green, similarly pubescent on the back, with a con- 
spicuous midvein; stamens 20, all parts glabrous, centrally 
clustered; filaments varying from 0.5 to 1.5 mm. long; anthers 
broadly bilobed at the base, shallowly emarginate at apex, 0.5 
mm. long, fully as wide, the widely separating 2 cells dehiscing 
along the edges, basifixed. 
Type specimen 12584, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, February, 1911. 
This sweetly scented Mallotus was collected along the old 
Spanish road cutting across the fertile forested Puerto Princesa n 
flat peninsula and terminating on the north east coast. A 
Christian Philippino called it “Soman.” M. lackeyi Elm. pos- 
sesses the same fragrance and both of our new species are the same 
as M. floribundus Muell. Arg. in that respect. 'The odor must 
lie in the whole plant, in the flowers, fruits, leaves and wood. 
I have seen wild tribes stringing the seeds of Mueller’s 
species among their beaded neck wear for the sake of the 
aroma. 
MICRODESMIS Hook. 
-= Microdesmis philippinense Elm. "t sp. 
= Shrubby or tree-like; stem 1 dm. thick, 5 m. high, widely 
branched above the middle; wood moderately hard, odorless 
. and tasteless, yellowish white; bark mottled, smooth; branches 
.. laxly and numerously rebranched, the slender green twigs glab- - 
` yous except the slightly hairy young portion. Leaves alter. 
 matingly scattered along the branchlets, glabrous when mature, 
