1484 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 75 
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iole stout, 1 cm. long, also glabrous, broadly flattened and shal- 
lowly grooved on the upper side, latericius in the dry state. 
Panicle lateral, 1 to 3 dm. long, profusely rebranched, cinereous 
or merely pulverulent when old, purplish brown; branches at right 
angles, usually subtended by sharp minute bracts; flowers subses- 
silely clustered toward the ultimate ends of the branchlets sub- 
tended by bracteoles; calyx short, acutely 4-lobed, faintly ciliate, 
green, united at the truncate base; buds globose, the 4 glabrous 
corolla lobes valvate, fleshy, 1.5 mm. long, oblongish, deciduous; 
stamens 2, upon a short common stalk, glabrous, included, the 
anthers cordately ovate and about 0.75 mm. long; ovary united, 
glabrous, obovately ellipsoid, terminated by 2 stigmatic arms, 
thick, 2-celled and 2-ovuled; fruits about 1 em. long, ovoid, 
glabrous, 1-seeded. 
Type specimen 12333, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
In thickets of light woods upon a limestone formation near 
the seacoast. 
CELASTRACEAE. 
Euonymus alatus Elm. n. sp. 
A small tree; stem terete, 1.5 dm. thick, 7 m. high, branched 
from below the middle; branches widely spreading, laxly rebranch- 
ed, the slender glabrous twigs green and subdeflexed; wood 
moderately hard, odorless and tasteless, pale reddish brown toward 
the center, somewhat burly; bark relatively thick, smooth, yel- 
lowish gray, orange red or yellow beneath the epidermis, otherwise 
reddish. Leaves leathery, descending, much lighter green beneath, 
flat, the acute or acuminate apex recurved, base obtusely rounded 
or merely obtuse, opposite, scattered along the twigs, oblong, the 
larger blades 15 em. long, less than one half of that across the 
widest portion, the entire margins well curved upon the under 
side, glabrous, curing greenish brown, the upper surface usually 
ashy gray or subglaucescent; midvein pronounced on both sides; 
lateral nerves faint, very oblique or much ascending, 4 to 6 
pairs, their tips more or less branched and obscurely united, re- 
ticulations coarse and more evident from the upper side; petiole 
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