1518 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 75 
clustered in the upper leaf axils; pedicels puberulent, 1 to 3 mm. 
long, subtended at the base by a circle or whorl of short mar- 
cescent bracts; bud short ellipsoid; perianth erect, 3 mm. long, 
united toward the base, imbricate, finely puberulent on the dorsal 
side and along the edges, the oblong segments obtuse and whitish, 
stamineal disk short eup shaped, dark reddish brown and glabrous 
below the middle, the upper portion divided into 10 apieulate 
appendages whose tips are densely white hairy; fertile stamens 
also 10, alternating with the appendages and inserted upon the 
rim of the disk; filaments subequal, erect, 1.5 mm. long, whitish; 
anthers yellow, 0.5 mm. across, compressed, orbicular, emarginate 
at base; ovary ellipsoid, 2 mm. long, glabrous or only sparingly 
strigose; neck short, bearing an enlarged subcapitate stigma; 
fruits 7.5 mm. long, angularly ellipsoid, deep orange red, dehis- 
cing from the apex toward base, the 3 earpels subpersistent, with 
darker red seeds, glabrous, subtended by the calyx. 
Type specimen 12216, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Associated with the preceding species in sand gravelly soil - 
of woods skirting the banks of the Pauala river at 750 feet alti- 
tude. 
Apparently near to C. fuliginosa Blco. but ours is entirely 
glabrous and all branches characteristically chalky white. The 
fruits on this species is only one half as large as that on some 
of the Luzon specimens. 
Ies 
Homalium subscandens Elm. n. sp. 
A subscandent shrub, 3 to 5 m. high; branches terete, smooth, 
brown or yellowish blotched, with much lighter colored lenti- 
cels, curved and repeatedly rebranched, the young tips glabrous. 
Leaves rigidly chartaceous, ascending, flat or nearly so, paler 
green beneath, sublucid above, glabrous, the entire margins 
subinvolute, alternatingly scattered toward the ends of the twigs, 
bluntly acute or obtuse at apex, base broadly obtuse, oblong, 
. Sem. long, 3.5 cm. wide at the middle, curing dark brown or black- 
ish, the lower leaves usually smaller; midvein prominent beneath, 
. very plain on the upper side, glabrous, nearly black in the dry 
=~ State; lateral nerves brown colored when dry, less prominent than 
| the midrib beneath, about 6 pairs, oblique, tips anastomosing, 
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