DECEMBER 23, 1910) EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON SIBUYAN ISLAND 905 
brown, terete, the slightly thickened ends 5 mm. thick; 
stipular braets smooth, quite thick and persistent, obtuse or 
subacute, 3 mm. long, nearly as wide across the base. Flow- 
ers and fruits terminal, axillary or even lateral, the former 
greenish yellow except the light yellow anthers and purplish 
tinged perianth segments; pedicel smooth, terete and rather 
thick, 1.5 mm. long; sepals 5, united at the base, nearly 
3 mm. long, ovately oblong, finely ciliate about the obtusely 
rounded apex, 3-striate; petals ligulate, 0.75 mm. shorter 
than the sepals, truncate at the apex; ovary disk flat, thick, 
whitish, crenately lobed on the outside, glabrous; style erect, 
Short, 3-parted; stamens 5; filaments glabrous, whitish, erect 
or ascending, exceeding 1 mm., free; anther 0.25 mm. high, 
0.5 mm. wide, basifixed, laterally dehiscent; fruit upon 1.5 
em. long stalk, subtended by the perianth segments, simi- 
larly flattened at both ends, smooth, hard, yellowish green, 
at least 1.5 em. wide, 3-celled, each cell with 2 seeds, 
dehiscing along both sutures. 
Type specimen 12803, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. i 
Found to be quite common in only one place in compact 
humus covered fertile soil of a damp forested incline at 1000 
feet. Named by the Visayan ''Tooman."' 
Its affinities are with the Celebese A. gigantifolia Koord. 
ANTIDES MA Linn. 
Antidesma cumingii Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv? 
248, 1862. 
Field-note:—Shrub 3 to 4 m. high, in compact reddish soil 
of shrubberies or in light woods at 750 feet. 
Represented by number 12459, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
It is not the same as A. membranifolium Elm. from Lucban. 
Antidesma lucidum Merr. in Philip. Journ, Sci. Suppl. 
I; 78, 1906. 
Field-note:—A slender erect shrub; stem terete, 2.5 
