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long, 1 cm. thick, 1-celled, 1-sceded, the seed similar in shape to the drupe 

 but much smaller, about 1 em. long. 



Specimens examined, all from Mindoro: Baco River (230 McGregor), 

 Ain-il, 1905 (flowers and fruits); (1801 Merrill), April, 1903 (immature 

 flowers), specimens growing in very humid river forest; Puerto Galera 

 (3323 Merrill), October, 1903 ( fruit), growing in the lower hill forests. 



Dichapetalum tricapsulare (Blanco) Rktna tricapsularis Blanco, Fl. 

 Filip. ed. 1, 850. 1837; ed. 2, 120. 1845; ed. 3, 1:225. Merrill, 

 Govt. Lab. Publ. 27:32. 1905. Chailletia helfcriana F.-Vill. Nov. 

 App. 45. 1880, non Kurz. 

 A small shrub 1 to 5 m. high, with lanceolate or oblong lanceolate, 

 acuminate, somewhat inequilateral pubescent leaves, and axillary inflores- 

 cence, the entire inflorescence including the calyces densely villous pubescent. 

 Branches densely villous pubescent, the older ones becoming glabrous and 

 reddish brown. Leaves 8 to 12 cm. long, 1 to 3 cm. wide, blunt acuminate, 

 the base acute, the margins entire, the midrib above villous pubescent, the 

 lamina and margins with scattered hairs, also more or less villous pubescent 

 beneath; nerves about 8 pairs, ascending; petioles densely villous pubescent, 

 aboiit 2 mm. long. Cymes very short, few flowered. Flowers (inmiature) 

 with petals shorter than the sepals, cleft at the apex, glabrous, elliptical 

 ovate, slightly exceeding 1 mm. in length. Anthers 1 mm. long. Fruit 

 salmon pink, orbicular-ovoid somewhat triangular, densely cinereous pubes- 

 cent, 3-valved, 3-celled, dehiscent, the cells 1-seeded, the seeds about 12 mm. 

 long. 



Specimens examined, all from :M()unt Mariveles, Province of Bataan. 

 Luzon, where the species is rather common on wooded slopes above 800 m. : 

 (3191 Merrill), October, 1903 (fruit); (145 Barnes), January, 1904 

 (fruit); (G642 Elmer), November, 1904 (fruit); (2842 Meyer), March 

 1905 (immature flowers). The above specimens agree very closely with 

 Blanco's description, and certainly represent his Riana tricapsularis, which 

 is apparently a very distinct species of Dichapetalum. 



EUPHORBIACE^.. 



Endospermum peltatum, s|i. nov. 



A large tree, 25 to 30 m. high, with thickened branchlets, the leaf scars 

 large and prominent, and suborbicular to broadly ovate, acute, or obtuse, 

 strongly peltate to deeply oordntc leaves. 13 to 20 cm. long. Branchlets 

 brownish gray, 1 to 1.5 cm. in (liamctor, densely pubescent, the numerous 

 leaf scars about 1 cm. in diameter. Leaves crowded at the apices of the 

 branchlets, 10 to 18 cm. wide, entire or somewhat repand above, the base 

 truncate to deeply cordate, the petiole often inserted 3 or 4 cm. from 

 the margin, palmately 7 to 9 nerved, the nerves rather prominent on both 

 surfaces, dark colored and pubescent above, becoming nearly glabrous, 

 beneath pale, densely pubescent, with two large glands at the insertion of 

 the petiole, and with few smaller glands at the ramifications of tin- nerves 



