DECEMBER 23, 1910] EUPHORBIACEAE CoLLECTFD ON SrBUYAN ISLAND 923 
ends of the twigs, alternate; petiole ascending, turning bright 
red on the exposed sides at least, 5 to 8 cm. long, smooth, 
shining, terete; blades membranous, descending, usually 
somewhat folded upon the upper pleasing green surface, beneath 
glaucescent, drying grayish green, ovate with slender caudate 
tips, entire margins, roundly obtuse at the base which is 
provided on the upper side with a pair of elongated glands, 
glabrous, pellucid glandular beneath, 15 cm. long, 6.5 em. 
wide below the middle; stipules of merely hairy vestiges; 
midvein prominent, with 5 to 7 oblique lateral pairs, tips 
obscurely united, the cross bars also very faint. Racemose 
spikes suberect, glabrous, solitary from the leaf axils, ours 
only pistillate, 1 dm. long in anthesis, much longer in the 
fruiting state, flower bearing from above the middle toward 
the apex mostly; flowers in small groups, subtended by a 
slenderly petioled foliaceous bract prominently glandular on 
the upper basal portion; pedicels ascending, subglabrous, averag- 
ing 7.5 mm. long in the flower, 2 cm. in fruit; calyx 
relatively small, subglobose, 1 mm. long, obscurely dentate; 
ovary covered with a light sulphur yellow bloom, as long 
as the calyx and similar in shape, bearing at the apex a 
very thick hood-like pulverulent stigma; fruit globose, dark 
green beneath the glandular coat, 5 mm. thick with the 
persistent brown stigma; staminate flowers not seen. 
Type specimen 12264, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
Only once seen in damp reddish soil with a rocky subsoil, 
along wooded banks of the Patoo river at 750 feet. 
Differentiated from M. cuneata Elm. by its caudate acu- 
minate leaf points, bases broadly obtuse not cuneate, much 
longer petioles, conspicuous glands which are different in color. 
Neither is it M. caudatifolia Elm., because of the TN xs 
inflorescence. 
Macaranga tanarius Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. XV?; vil 
1862. À ; 
Field-note:—Low spreading tree; stem 7 m. high, 2 dm. 
thick; its main branches arising from below the middle, re- 
branched, the ultimate ones ascending, forming a flattish | 
