LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. IH. Manila, P. 1., December 23, 1910. Art. 51 
EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON SIBUYAN 
ISLAND 
BY 
A. D. E. Elmer 
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ACTEPHILA Bim. 
Actephila gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
A strict undershrub; stem terete, 2.5 em. thick, quite 
rigid; branches divarieately spreading, chiefly toward the top, 
rebranched; wood yellowish white, odorless and tasteless, mod- 
erately soft; bark brown and gray mottled, thin, smooth. 
Leaves at the ends of the twigs and more or less crowded, 
alternate, coriaceous, glabrous, drying green, horizontally spread- 
ing, shining deep green above, much paler or yellowish so 
beneath, oblong, entire, tips acute to acuminate, recurved, base 
bluntly cuneate or abruptly obtuse, the larger blades 1.5 dm. 
long, 4 cm. wide across the middle or a trifle above this; 
petiole smooth, 3 em. long, brown at both ends; stipular 
bracts very short, thick, grayish puberulent; midvein brown, 
prominent beneath; lateral ones 7 to 9 or even 11 on a side, 
divaricate, relatively faint, their ends arched and united, re- 
ticulations obscure. Flowers and fruits either axillary or lat- 
eral; staminate flowers with 1.5 mm. long pedicels arising 
from short bracteate tubercles; sepals whitish and with pink- 
