DECEMBER 23, 1910] EUPRORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON SrBUYAN ISLAND 921 
of both sexes; staminate ones upon slender pale green ped- 
icels, similarly pale green throughout; the pistillate ones ses- 
sile, with green ovaries and the other part of a rich or 
deeper yellow than the male parts; fruits snow-berry white, 
flattened, less than 1.25 mm. across, glabrous, 6-celled, each 
cell contains 2 seeds, bearing the glaucous brown 5-parted of 
divided styles. In small shrubberies or light woods of wet 
compact soil of grass lands at 750 feet. 
Represented by number 12092, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, March, 1910. 
It distinctly differs from Forestry Bureau number 1427 
collected by Ahern’s collector on mount Mariveles in having 
much Jonger and narrower male perianth, longer anthers which 
as in the female flowers are upon short but distinct stalks. 
The fruits contain 4 to 6 more seeds. The light pleasing 
upper and glaucous lower surface of the leaves give the flattish 
tree crown a fine appearance. 
Glochidion trichogynum Muell. Arg. in Linnaea XXXIII; 
66, 1863. 
Field-note:—Slender shrub; stem slendeer, 3, to 5 m. high 
9 to 5 em. thick; branches mainly at the top, rather slen- 
der, sparingly rebranched; wood odorless and tasteless, sappy 
white, soft, with & reddish pith; bark yellowish, &mooth or 
minutely lenticelled; leaves chartaceous, flat or only the apex 
abruptly recurved, paler green beneath, mostly horizontal; 
flowers pendulous, in axillary clusters, the short stalks 
provided with bracts, green, the corolla and stamens yellow. 
Found in wet stony soil of wooded banks along the Sinu- 
ban creek at 1000 feet. Called "Ananok" by the Visayan 
on Sibuyan. 
Represented by number 12321, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
HOMALANTHUS A. Juss. 
Homalanthus populneus (Geisel.) Pax. 
Field-note:—Tree-like shrub; stem ascending, 15 cm. thick, 
