2656 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Arr. 114 
angularly ellipsoid, murinus gray but dull sulphureus in the 
dry state, normally dehiscing into 3 carpels from the apex 
toward the base, rather thick and transversely wrinkled on 
the dry ones, the inner side tinged with atro-violaceus; 
the seeds as many as there are carpels, surrounded by a 
luteus fleshy membrane. 
Type specimen number 13543, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 
ust, 1912. 
Discoverd in moist ground of a densely forested flat at 
750 feet altitude. 
Possibly only a broadly rounded variety of the preceding. 
Quadrasia Elm. n. gen. 
Shrubs or small trees with alternate leaves; flowers 
strictly dioecious; calyx 3 to 4 but usually 4-segmented; 
pistillate flowers with a fringe or crown of petals which 
are absent in the staminate flowers; stigma fimbriate along 
the upper side of the 4 to 5 reflexed segments; stamens 
numerous, free, intermixed with bristly filamentous appen- 
dages; ovary sessile, bearing 5 reflexed styles, 4 to 5-cell- 
ed but usually only 4-celled. 
Apparently related to Bennettia Mig. but fruits in ours 
with one or two more cells and each cell one-seeded, not with 
two or more seeds; styles also more numerous and stigma not at 
all capitate nor two parted; fruit tardily dehiscent, not berry- 
ike as Miquel’s genus and our staminate inflorescence is 
always spicate. 
4 Quadrasia euphorbioides Elm. n. sp. 
A small tree-like shrub; stem 3 to 4 m high, 7.5 cm 
thiek, branched from the middle; wood dingy white, rather 
soft, odorless and tasteless; bark yellowish, with lighter 
colored excrescences arranged longitudinally; branches laxly 
rebranched and spreading, the tips ascendingly curved and 
suberect, the young portion short but densely umber pubes- 
cent with light colored lenticels. Leaves slightly roughened 
On both sides, alternatingly clustered toward the ends of 
the twigs, descending, subcoriaceous, submembranous when 
