2632 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY {Vou VII, Arr. 114 
brown; lateral veins usually of 6 pairs, 2 pairs arising from 
the base, the basal one of which is much less conspicuous 
and runs nearly parallel with the basal margin of the leaf 
blade, the upper one of the basal pairs most conspicuous 
and with 4 or 5 secondary nerves scattered along the under 
side, the other pairs much ascending and only slightly 
curved, all of the same color as the midvein and usually 
with hairy cushions in their axils, cross bars numerous be- 
neath and also evident from the upper surface; petiole 6 
to 10 cm long, terete, straw brown when dry, short ciner- 
eous at least in the early state. Spikes horizontal or sub- 
pendant, green when fresh as are also the leaf stalks, very 
slender and cinereous, solitary or few clustered from the 
upper leaf axils, 8 to 20 cm long, flower bearing fron near 
the base; buds ovoid, woolly pubescent; pistillate flowers 
sessile, subtended by a rather thick apiculate externally 
pubescent bract; perianth flat, cup shaped, 1.5 mm across, 
united below the middle, divided into 3 triangularly acute 
segments, externally pubescent, glabrous on the inner side; 
ovary subcinereous, ovoid, 1 mm long or longer; stigmas — 
grouped into 3 parts, repeatedly branched from: near the 
base and along the inner side, glabrous except the main 
branch toward the base, spreading. Fruits flatly globose, 4 
mm in diameter, cinereous, bearing the persistent perianth 
and stigmas, vertically 3-creased, loculicidally dehiscent and 
partly septicidal, 3-celled; seeds 3, adhering to a central 
placenta, obovoidly globose, their sides veiny, unequal in size, 
1.5 to 2 mm thick. . 
Type specimen number 13329, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 
1912. 
Found in wet fertile earth in a flat of secondary woods 
at 500 feet above ocean level. ‘‘Alum’’ in Manobo. 
. Very near to Acalypha cardiophylla Merr. but our speci- 
mens are distinctly cinereous, giving it a very characteristic 
appearance in the field. There are also other differences. 
^ y Antidesma agusanense Elm. n. sp. 
_ An upright shrub; stem 5 cm thick, 3 to 4 m high, 
