DECEMBER 23, 1910] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON SiBUYAN ISLAND 907 
so, suberect. Common in thickets and light woods bordering 
meadows along the coast. ‘‘Torog-torog’’ is the native Visayan 
name given to it. 
Represented by number 12445, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
CLAOXYLON A. Juss. 
Claoxylon subviride Elm. n. sp. 
An erect slender tree-like shrub; stem 7.5 cm. thick, 
5 m. high, terete, more or less crooked; main branches 
few, arising from below the middle, crookedly rebranched, 
spreading, not very numerous, the ultimate ones slender and 
suberect at the tips; wood dingy white, odorless, with a 
sweetish taste, soft; bark smooth, yellowish mottled, green be- 
neath the epidermis. Leaves subcoriaceous, horizontally spread- 
ing, nearly flat, slightly paler green beneath, glabrous, 
drying green, harsh on both sides, margins minutely dentate, 
serrate, subentire toward the base, apex acuminately caudate, 
base cuneate or obtuse, blade 2.5 dm. long, 7.5 cm. wide 
aeross the middle, oblong or the smaller ones oblong to 
laneeolate, alternate, at the ends of the young twigs only; 
petioles 2 to 8 em. long, the average ones 5 cm. long, 
green, puberulent or faintly pubescent; stipules mere vesti- 
ges; midvein prominent beneath, with 5 to 7 lateral pairs, 
the basal 2 to 3 pairs straight, the upper ones arcuate, the 
cross bars and coarse reticulations rather conspicuous; stam- 
inate iuflorescence solitary aud axillary, pale green, ascending, 6 
to 10 em. long, the rachis olivaceous pubescent; flowers whitish 
except the greenish perianth, falling exceedingly early; the 
subtending bracts ovately acute, similar in color and pubes- 
cence, 2 mm. long; pedicel 3 mm. long, hairy; sepals 3, 
nearly free, oblong to elliptic, 3.6 mm. long, short acute 
or obtuse, pubescent; stamens at least 50, crowded upon 
the receptacle, creamy white; filaments glabrous, 1.5 mm. 
long, intermixed at the base with hyaline setosely fimbriated 
scales 1 mm. long; anther 0.75 mm. long, attached at the 
connate base, quite free otherwise; pistillate flowers and 
fruits not seen. a 
