DECEMBER 23, 1910] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON SrBUYAN ISLAND . 915 
vety dark green, globose, 1.5 cm. thick, globose, few in either the 
leaf axils or lateral, upon very short pedicels; calyx segments 
breaking off from the persistent calyx base; the segments ra- 
ther thick, ovately rounded and 5 mm. long; stigmas subper- 
sistent, brown, sessile, 3- parted; cells 3, with 1 to 3 ovules 
or young seeds in each. 
Type specimen 12275, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province ‘of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
Found in reddish sticky soil at 750 feet in humid for- 
ests along the Patoo river... The local Visayan call it ''Bag- 
bog." 
Somewhat resembling, C. littoralis Roxb., but distinct. 
ELATERIOSPERMUM Bim. 
Elateriospermum paucinervia Elm. Leaf. HUP. Bot. Il; 
484, 1908. 
Field-note:—A medium-sized tree; stem 6 dm. thick, 
14 m. high; its main branches toward the top, spreading, 
crookedly rebranched, the twigs usually green; wood odorless 
and tasteless, yellowish white toward the center, moderately 
hard and fine for cutting; bark smoothish, rather mottled; 
petioles ascending, terete, green, thickened at both ends; 
blades folded upon the upper side, coriaceous, deep green 
and sublucid above, much paler or even yellowish green beneath, 
margins wavy, tips twisted and recurved, fruits subglobose, 
solitary or few-clustered, terminal, upon stout short stalks, 
3 to 5 cm. across, 2 to 3-celled, with an equal number 
of flattened seeds, hard and deep green. Collected on a 
steep, forested ravine in a moist shale rocky soil at 1750 
feet on the trail toward Espafia. 
Represented by number 12367, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
So far the few known Philippine specimens are in fruit 
only, and consequently its generic rank is still in doubt. 
