274 MERRILL. 



long as the leaves, densely ferruginous-puberulent, peduncled, tlie lower 

 branches about 7 em long, the upper ones shorter. Flowers pedicelled, 

 glabrous. Calyx about 2.5 mm in diameter, short, obscurely 4-toothed. 

 Petals 4, oblong, 4 to 5 mm long, about 1.4 mm wide, glabrous. Staminal 

 tube cyclindric, 3 mm long, irregularly toothed at the apex; anthers 8, 

 oblong, 1 mm long, borne at the top of the tube, included. Disk cylindric, 

 1 mm long, free, the apex densely feri-uginous-hirsute. Ovary somewhat 

 ferruginous-hirsute; style 2.5 mm long, glabrous. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, San Vicente, For. Bur. 1019 Klemme, May, 1907, 

 in dense hill-forests at an altitude of about 30 m. Neg., Tibungao. 



A species in the group with Dysoxylum thyrsoideum Hiern., but very diflferent 

 from that species and apparently also from all other allied forms. 



EUPHOKBIACE^. 



AGROSTISTACHYS Dalz. 

 Agrostistachys pubescens sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, ramulis, subtus foliis, inflorescentiisque plus minus pubes- 

 centibus; foliis oblongo-obovatis, membranaceis vel chartaceis, circiter 

 22 cm longis, apice acuminatis, basi angustatis, cuneatis, minute irre- 

 gulariter glanduloso-serratis vel subintegris, supra glabris, subtus ad 

 costam nervosque plus minus villosis; iniloresccntiis foliis longioribus; 

 fructibus dense pubescentibus. 



A small tree, the branchlets, inflorescence and the under surface of the 

 leaves more or less pubescent. Branches terete, grayish-brown, pubescent, 

 sparingly lenticellate. Leaves membranaceous or chartaceous, 18 to 25 

 cm long, 9 to 11 cm wide, oblong-obovate, the apex rather abruptly 

 acuminate, gradually narrowed from just below tlie middle to the cuneate 

 base, subentire or slightly and distantly irregularly glandular-serrate, the 

 upper surface glabrous, shining, the lower more or less villous on the 

 midrib and lateral nerves; nerves prominent, parallel, 25 to 30 on each 

 side of the midrib, the reticulations distinct, parallel; petioles stout, 

 pubescent, less than 5 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, exceed- 

 ing the leaves, incipient spikes very short, composed of numerous imbri- 

 cate, ovate, acuminate, more or less pubescent bracts mostly less than 1 

 mm in length, not distichous; mature inflorescence slightly pubescent, 

 the rachis 40 to 60 cm long. Flowers unknown. Fruits dry, subglobose, 

 dehiscent, 3-celled, about 8 or 9 mm in diameter, outside densely oliva- 

 ceous- or yellowish-pubescent; seeds subglobose, about 5 mm in diameter, 

 shining. 



fA/,o.\, Province of Bataan, Mabayo, For. Bur. ,59 '/O Curran, January, 1907, 

 in bamboo thickets along streams. 



A species readily recognizable in the genus by its pubescence, the second one to 

 be found in tlie Pliilippines. 



