DzcEwBEn 23, 1910] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON SrBUYAN ISLAND 995 
Ouly known from two other localities in the Philippines, 
namely from the district of Zamboanga, Mindanao, and from 
the province of Cagayan, Luzon. 
y Mallotus echinatus Elm. n. sp. 
Erect tree; stem 14 cm. thick, 7 m. high; branches 
from above the middle, the limbs freely and laxly rebranch- 
ed; wood moderately hard, odorless and tasteless, brownish 
toward tbe center; bark smoothish, blotched. Leaves mostly 
at the ends of the glabrous twigs, opposite or subopposite, 
submembranous or chartaceous, flat or only the acute or slen- 
derly acuminate tips recurved, sublucid above, paler green 
beneath, glabrous, curving, dull green, the margin entire, 
base acute to obtuse, oblong or linear so, quite variable in 
size, 15 cm. long, 4 cm. wide across the middle; petiole 
also glabrous, 1 cm. long, green and terete except the thick- 
ened ends; midvein prominent beneath, about 10 lateral 
ones on each side, divaricate and ascendingly curved, cross 
bars obscure; bud bracts setaceously acuminate, 7.5 mm. 
long, sparsely puberulent. Pistillate flowers axillary or leaf 
opposed, usually solitary; pedicel glabrous with only short 
glandular hairs, bracteate from the base, arising from very 
short obscurely bracteated pseudotubercles, nearly 2 cm. long 
in flower, doubling its length in the fruiting state; perianth 
united only at the very base, the 3 mm. long setaceously 
acuminate, 5 to 7, more or less unequal, reddish and sub- 
glabrous segments stellately spreading ovary with 5 purple 
papillae covered parts alternating with the rich yellow pu- 
berulent streaks; style 1 to 2 mm. long, bearing 3 slender 
usually curved and similarly colored stigmatic arms 1.5 
cm. in length; the scurfy excrescences along the diver- 
gent stigmas light pink; fruits flattish, with sunken apex, 
1 em. high, 1.5 cm. across, echinate, 3-celled and 3- 
seeded; seeds globose, smooth, brown, 5 mm. in diame- 
ter; staminate flowers upon short spikes, about 3 cm. 
long; the subglabrous rachis bracteate and similarly red; 
pedicels 1.5 mm. long, usually solitary from the axils of 
the bracts; perianth very diferent; segments 4, nearly free, 
4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, ovately elliptic, similar in color 
