926 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 51 
and hairiness; stamens averaging 60; filaments light yellow, 
glabrous, 2 mm. long; anthers 0.75 mm. long, truncate and 
lobed at both ends especially the upper, attached at the 
middle dorsal side, 2-celled, dehiscing by lateral slits, very 
deep yellow. 
Type specimen 12253, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
This elegant Mallotus was discovered in gravelly soil of 
wooded banks of the Adamagon creek at 1000 feet. Number 
12194 is the same and was called “‘Beli’? by the native 
Visayan. 
Its affinities lie with M. cumingii Muell. Arg. and M. 
eglandulosum | Elm. 
OSTODES Bim. 
Ostodes serrato-crenata Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
IV; 283, 1909. 
Field-note:—A rather small erect tree; stem 10 m. high, 
2.5 dm. thick, subterete; branches mostly above the middle, 
spreading, rebranched, the ultimate ones slender and with 
suberect tips; leaves ascending, chartaceous, nearly flat, much 
paler green beneath, tips twistingly recurved, the dark green 
terete petiole thickened at both ends; inflorescence composed 
of terminal pendulous stalks, equal to an arm's length, the 
more vigorous ones occasionally short branched at or near 
the base; flowers deciduous, in alternating clusters, maturing 
at different time; calyx yellowish with green median tips; corolla 
creamy white; infrutescence terminal, pendulous, the flex- 
ible stalk 6 dm. long; fruits upon 2.25 cm. long pedicels, 
walnut green, triangularly subglobose, at least 2.5 cm. thick, 
subtended by the 5 green more or less cogged calyx seg- 
ments, 3-celled and 8-seeded. In well drained clay of a 
forested incline at 1750 feet along the trail toward Espafia, 
The flowering specimen was collected in a fertile forested 
flat at 750 feet about Magallanes. 
Represented by numbers 12366 in fruit and 12482 in 
flower, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April 
and May, 1910. 
