Marca 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New SpPecies—I 2631 
over it; filament expanded and subglabrous at the base on 
the upper side, otherwise long hairy, 2 mm long; anther 1 
mm long excluding the horns, oblong, truncate and emargi- 
nate at the base, frequently 2-pointed at the apex, attach- 
ed on the back above the middle and which point is pro- 
vided with a pair of linear ascending spurs 0.66 mm in 
length; ovary one half imbedded, the upper portion flatly 
. rounded, glabrous and rugose, 4 mm across; the strict te- 
rete styles 3 mm long, glabrous, bearing a terminal stigma. 
Type specimen number 13765, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 
ember, 1912. 
Gathered from moss laden limbs of large trees in the 
wet windy summit region of mount Urdaneta at 5750 feet 
altitude. The vernacular name according to the Manobos is 
“Duligagan.” 
EUPHORBIACEAE 
63 Acalypha subcinerea Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub-like; stem solitary or few from the same base, 
upright or nearly so, 2 dm thick, 7 m high, crooked and 
subterete, branched all along from below the middle, the 
ultimate ones slender and widely spreading; wood soft, pale 
white, quite odorless and tasteless; bark. smooth, mottled, 
yellowish white except the epidermis; twigs green, suberect, 
breaking with a snap, the young portion light ashy gray 
pulverulent, tips more or less angularly striate, older por- 
tion subterete. Leaves alternatingly crowded toward the ends 
of the branchlets, mostly horizontal, curved upon the upper 
slightly greener surface, thinly coriaceous, drying greenish 
brown on both sides, ovate or ovately elliptic, the old ones 
glabrate or strigosely hairy and minutely punctate on the 
upper side except along the finely pubescent or puberulent 
veins, beneath short cinereous pubescent, the larger lamina 
ll em wide below the middle, 15 cm long, broadly or 
truncately rounded at the base, broadly and short obtusely 
rounded at the apex, margins entire or rugulose and ob- 
scurely crenate; midvein straight and conspicuous, straw 
