DECEMBER 23, 1910] EUPHORBIACEAE COLLECTED ON SrBUYAN IsLAND 931 
folded upon the upper deeper green surface, tips very abruptly 
recurved, the entire margins subinvolute in the dry state, 
drying dull green, alternate or subopposite, glabrous, subrotund, 
similarly rounded at both ends, the blades 1.5 dm. long, 
8 cm. wide across the middle; midvein prominent, the 4 or 5 
lateral ones oblique and strict except their arcuate tips, 
with few cross bars; petioles ascending, 5 cm. long, terete, 
thickened at both sides. Flowers not seen; fruits upon short 
sparingly branched tubercles, smooth, green, hard, obovoidly 
triangular, 1.5 cm. long, with a short pedicel which at the 
base is circular and articulate, the apex bearing 3 brown 
recurved stigmas, normally 8-celled and 38-seeded. 
Type specimen 12349, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
This handsome tree was discovered in moist red rocky 
soil of a densely wooded flat along the Patoo river at 750 
feet. Rare! 
I am uncertain as to the genus, but apparently it is à 
relative of S. lateriflorum Merr. 
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