DECEMBER 23, 1910] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON Srpvyan ISLAND 913 
gins brown and slightly involute, oblong to broadly lan- 
ceolate, 12.5 cm. long, 4 cm. wide across the middle or a 
trifle below it; petiole glabrous, 1 cm. long; midvein very 
prominent beneath, the 5 to 8 lateral pairs inconspicuous 
but equally evident from the upper side, their tips united 
a few mm. below the margins; reticulations nearly as evident, 
equally plain on both sides; stipules united or obsolete. 
Flowers not seen; fruits usually solitary, axillary or lateral, 
upon deep green subglabrous 3 mm. long pedicels, ovoidly 
globose, 1 cm. long, creamy white, finely scurfy gray on the 
outside, subtended by a circular rim-like disk bearing at the 
apex 2 subsessile brown divergent stigmas, usually with a 
single stony seed. 
Type specimen 12317, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Discovered in wet gravelly or stony soil of densely wooded 
banks along the Sinuban creek at 1000 feet. The natives call 
it '"Lacong" in the Visayan dialect. 
Allied to C. monospermus Merr. but our leaves are acute 
to acuminate, never obtuse or rounded, larger and more con- 
Spicuously veined. 
Cyclostemon merrittii Elm. n. sp. 
Small erect tree; stem 1 dm. thick, 5 m. high; branch- 
es from below the middle, divaricate, rebranched, forming 
an elongated crown; wood heavy, sappy white, without odor 
or taste, moderately soft; bark smooth, grayish green, deep 
green beneath the epidermis. Leaves ample, horizontal or 
usually descending, chartaceous, glabrous, alternatingly scat- 
tered, dull green on the upper shallowly folded surface, 
mueh paler beneath, drying dull brown, oblong to elliptic, 
varying in size, the entire margin slightly involute in the 
dry state, the larger blades 2 dm. long, 7 cm. wide across 
the middle, apex with a short abrupt acute point, the basal 
sides subrotund and very inequilateral, the upper side extend- 
ing 1 cm. further down; midvein prominently raised be- 
neath, the 9 to 11 lateral ones arcuate and also quite 
conspicuous; reticulations fine, very evident especially on 
the lower side; petiole stout, glabrous, 1.5 cm. long, scurfy 
