2646 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE Botany [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
8 to 4 branched along its lower side from below the mid- 
dle pairs, 2 to 3-forked above the middle or toward the 
distal end; the basal radiating nerve arising from and extend- 
ing below the petiole, composed of 4 to 6 nerves, the later- 
al or upper ones are the longer and usually branched above 
the middle, cross bars faint though quite numerous; bud 
scales membranous, glabrous, 3 to 5 em long, well imbricat- 
ed and with the prominent point somewhat curved, caducous, 
pale green or yellowish. Flowers not seen. Infrutescent 
spikes erect or nearly so, solitary and terminal, averaging 
only & em long, fruit bearing from below the middle or 
from near the base; rachis stout, glaucous green but nearly 
black in the dry state, glabrous, subterete; pedicels relatively 
stout, 4 mm long and at right angles with it; fruits avel- 
laneus and 5 mm across in the dry state, apiculate at the 
apex, subglobose or somewhat compressed. 
Type specimen . number 14045, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct: 
ober, 1912. 
Gathered in dry red soil mixed with stones along the 
wooded ridge near an old clearing in the sag at 8500 feet 
altitude, situated between Duros and Cawilanan peaks. The 
Manobos like etl other Filipinos call the various species of 
Homalanthus “Bilante.”” 
: Leaves with their petioles and bud bracts twice as large 
- as those on Homalanthus macradenius Pax and Hoffm. which 
is based upon my mount Apo collection. Sr. J. F. Quadras 
collected several specimens of our new species here proposed 
in the Surigao province. 
qb Macaranga apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
Small tree; stem quite crooked, 5 m high, 1.5 dm 
- thick, branched toward the top; wood soft, white, odorless 
and without taste, quite light in weight; bark easily peeling, 
brown, smooth; twigs quite numerous, ascending, forming a 
flat. shaped crown, ferete, dull rusty brown or toward the 
young tips short fulvus tomentose. Leaves submembranous, 
; chiefly horizontal, dark green on the upper nearly flat sur- 
| face, Nes caudate dips j recurved, much ar green beneath, 
