DECEMBER 23, 1910] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED on Srevyan ÍsLAND 929 
below the middle, the basal smaller ones quite different 
in shape, membranous, dull green above, glaucous so be- 
neath, flat, entire, alternatingly scattered, ovately cblcng 
to elliptic, inequilateral, the lower side narrower and 
straighter, apex obtuse, on the Jarger ones roundly so, base 
unequally sided and rounded, curing grayish green; pet- 
iole 1 to 3 mm. long, usually puberulent especially on 
the under side, subtended by thin brown acuminate bracts 
scarcely as long, midvein faint, the lateral ones not evident. 
Flowers few, fascicled in the axils of the leaflets; the female 
united, subsessile upon very short densely bracteated stalks, 
its perianth scarcely longer than 0.5 mm. long; male 
flowers upon red slender ascendingly recurved glabrous ped- 
icels 1 cm. long or longer; perianth deep red except the 
pale white fringe, inwardly curved, 4 in number, ovately 
triangular in outline, 8 mm. long, nearly as wide across 
the base, also glabrous, the margins laciniate; disk united 
at the base to the perianth, composed of 4 broadly rounded 
fleshy lobes, 1 mm. across, 1 mm. deep, red; anthers 4, 
flattened, rotately attached and forming a disk, dehiscing 
laterally along the outer edge; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 12113, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes 
(Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, 
March, 1910. 
This lax undershrub was discovered in moist alluvial 
soil of a wooded flat among other undershrubs along the 
Pauala river at 750 feet. Not seen elsewhere. 
Of our Philippine species it is nearest allied to P. 
mindorensis C. B. Rob., but sufficiently distinct. 
Phyllanthus greenei Elm. n. sp. 
A very lax and low undershrub; stem woody, solitary 
or only few from the same root cluster, 2 to 5 dm. high, 
terete, brown, very flexible, the larger stems occasionally 
branched. Leaves horizontally spreading, more or less crowded 
toward the top, alternate, 7 to 15 cm. long, straight or 
curved, leaflet bearing from near the base; rachis glabrous, 
subterete, toward the base with a few scattering bristle-like 
scales, subtended at the base by 3 setose bracts less than 
