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a 
DECEMBER 23, 1911] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON Parawan Istawp 18303 
long, pulverulent, brown when dry, gradually thickened toward the 
distal end, subtended by a whorl of involueral bracts; perianth 
6, united toward the base, elliptically elongated, rigid, erect, 
glabrous, the tips at least dull flesh red, imbricate, 3 or more 
mm. long by 1.5 mm. wide across the middle, the inner 3 with 
thiekened or glandular bases; ovary upon a thiek base, smooth 
and glabrous, 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide across the base, ovoidly 
conical, thick, 3-celled and 6-ovuled; stigma truncate, dark 
reddish brown, obscurely 3-lobulate; fruits pendant, yellowish 
and shaded a trifle red, angularly subglobose, 7.5 mm. across, 
smooth, hard, upon a pronounced green pedicel, subtended by 
the 6 greenish perianth segments with dark brown tips, 3-celled, 
6-seeded. 
Type specimen 13104, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. ° 
Discovered this large leafed PAyllanthus in reddish compact 
soil mixed with gravel stones near a stream of dense woods at 
250 feet altitude and between the forks of the Iwahig river. 
Only a few plants were seen. 
SAPIUM R. Br. 
Sapium lateriflorum Merr. 
Field-note:—Large or middle sized tree; trunk 2.5 feet 
thick, 45 feet high, with its main branches from the middle or 
above it; wood moderately soft, white at least on the outside, 
odorless and tasteless, fine for working purposes; bark thick, 
dull brown, numerously checked into small rather thick plates, 
reddish brown beneath the epidermis; the branches covered 
with reddish wart-like excrescences, crookedly branched and 
widely spreading, the twigs green and flexible; leaves descend- 
ing, very smooth, coriaceous, apex twistingly recurved, lucid 
darker green on the upper surface which is usually concave; 
young infrutescence axillary, mostly ascending, all the stalks 
green; fruits pendant, unequally ellipsoid, 0.5 inch long, bearing 
at the apex a 2-lobed brown stigma; seed apparently only 1 
in each fruit though probably 2-eelled and 2-ovuled in the 
younger state. 
