912 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 51 
Rare in damp gravelly soil of a wooded bank along the 
Patoo river at 750 feet. 
CROTON Linn. 
Croton leiophyllus Muell. Arg. in Linnaea XXXIV; 1865- 
66: also in DC. Prod. XV?; 578, 1862. 
Field-note for 12070:—Slender tree, 8 m. high, with 
a 1 dm. thick stem; branches few, toward the top only, 
crookedly rebranched, the lax twigs gray; wood rather hard, 
heavy, dingy white, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, 
mottled; petioles thickened at both ends; blades only shallowly 
folded upon the upper dark lucid green surface, much paler 
green beneath, coriaceous; inflorescence terminal, from 1 to 
3-spicate, ascendingly recurved, greenish except the more 
yellowish stamens; flowers odorless, the lower ones mainly 
pistillate, the upper ones staminate; style flattened, divergent, 
green, bearing forked brown colored stigmas; ovary 3-celled. 
Collected in red clay at 2000 feet on the ridge near the 
trail to Espafia. 
Represented by numbers 12070 and 12084, Elmer, Magal- 
lanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April and May, 1910. 
Number 12084 is a less typical and stocky tree, rather com- 
mon in the valley about Magallanes. Its old leaves turn to 
yellow and orange red at the time of shedding. Number 
12070 is typical of Cuming’s 998. 
CYCLOSTEMON Bim. 
Cyclostemon gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
A slender shrub-like tree; stem 3.5 cm. thick, 5 m. 
high; branches mostly from above the middle, rebranched, 
relatively short, spreading; wood whitish, odorless, quite 
hard; bark smooth, greenish gray mottled; the twigs 
bearing whitish lenticels. Leaves alternatingly scattered, gla- 
brous, ascending or horizontal, flat or only the acute or 
acuminate tips slightly recurved, coriaceous, paler green 
beneath, curing green, base acute to obtuse, the entire mar- 
