922 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor III, Arr. 51 
7. m. high; main branches toward the top, widely spreading, 
the branchlets subverticilate, lax, suberect, forming a flat- 
tish erown; wood very soft, poplar white and light, odorless 
and tasteless; bark brown, smooth or lenticelled on the branch- 
lets; leaves copious, upon horizontally spreading red peti- 
oles, the blades descending, submembranous, usually condu- 
plieate on the upper deep velvety green surface, glaucescently 
green beneath; inflorescence ascending, the spikes usually curved, 
green except the odorless and yellowish flowers. In red 
compact soil of shrubberies on low hills at 750 feet. The 
natives call it ''Balantig." 
Represented by number 12499, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
HOMONOYA Lour. 
Homonoya riparia Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 637. 
Field-note:—Shrubs 1 to 3 m. high, with several 3 to 
8 cm. thick stems; stems usually branched from near the 
base, rebranched and widely spreading in a willowly fashion; 
wood very soft, whitish, without odor or taste; bark smooth, 
brown, with a green layer beneath the epidermis; leaves 
slightly ascending, nearly flat, membranous, shining deep 
green above, grayish so beneath; spikes strictly ascending, 
odorless, brownish or reddish in the bud state. In sand 
gravelly soil along the Pauala river bed at 750 feet. 
Represented by number 12144," Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, March, 1910. 
MACARANGA Thouars. 
Macaranga sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
Erect tree; stem 2 dm. thick, 7 m. high; main branches 
from above the middle; the numerous branchlets ascending, 
smooth and green, slender, forming a flattish crown; wood 
very soft or pulpy, light, pale white, without odor or taste; 
bark easily stripping, smooth or lenticelled, mottled gray 
on the stem and main branches. Leaves copious along the 
