PN. E 
DECEMBER 23, 1911] EUPHORBIACEAE ÜonLtLECTED ON Parawan Istanp 1301 
shining on both sides, chartaceous, mostly descending, flat, the 
acuminate tips recurved, a trifle deeper green above, base in- 
equilaterally obtuse to aeute, drying dull green, oblong or lanceo- 
lately so, margins entire or very minutely denticulate above the 
middle, exceedingly variable in size, the larger blades 12.5 em. 
long by 4 em. wide across the middle; midvein thinly strigose 
in the early state, prominent, glabrous when old, yellowish brown; 
lateral pairs 5 to 8, quite prominent, ascendingly curved, tips 
interarching far below the margin, retieulations quite evident 
especially from beneath; petiole 7.5 mm. long, slender, ultimately 
glabrous, turning reddish brown while drying; bud bracts about 
5 mm. long, sharply acuminate, soft, densely pubescent. Flowers 
1 to 2 mm. long, pedicellate, the buds green, the petals luteus, 
odorless, densely erowded into axillary glomerules, their glab- 
rous stalks subtended by persistent soft grayish pubescent 
bracteoles; calyx at least 1 mm. long, sparsely hairy or ciliate, 
.ovate, more or less united at the base, green, 5; petals aureus; 
spreading, glabrous, oblong, 2.5 mm. long, obliquely rounded 
at apex, obscurely constricted toward the base, 1.25 mm. wide, 
stamens 10, erect; filaments glabrous, terete, relatively thick, 
0.5 mm. long, articulate at the base; anthers scarcely longer, 
nearly as wide, the 2 cells laterally dehiscent, bilobed, basifixed, 
apiculate; pistil mass ellipsoid, 1.5 mm. long, acuminate, the 
sessile and truncate stigma finely pulverulent; fruits pendant, 
obovoidly globose, 6 mm. in diameter, nearly luteus when mature, 
upon slender 5 mm. long pedicels, the anther perianth series 
persistent and glabrous; seed usually solitary, rugose, nearly 
black, erustaceous. 
Type specimens 12620 for flower and 13151 for fruit, A. 
D. E. Elmer, the former from Brooks Point (Addison Peak), 
the latter from Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, February 
and May respectively, 1911. 
Both numbers were collected in good soil of moist woods 
or humid forests at 250 feet. “Bunga-bunga” is the local or 
Tagbanua name for the Brooks Point specimen. 
It seriously differs from the description of M. casaeriaefolia 
Pich. in its petals not being orbicular nor pubescent on both 
sides; stamens in ours 10, their blunt anthers not long apiculate 
or caudate; and fruits when ripe yellow not red. 
