NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 191 



Merrill 110',, oOJ,iJ. and Fur. liar. ',20, 2660 AhernS collector. H. madablola Vi<l. 

 Sinopsis Athas (1883) /. 22, f. A. (non Gaertn.) manifestly represents tl.e same 

 form as tlie fmir s])eeiniens above mentioned. 



S. Hiptage luzonica Merr. in (4ovt. Lab. Pul.l. (Philip.) 35 (1905) 33. iM.ilip. 

 Journ. Sci. 1 (1!H)0) Suppl. 74. 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Whitford 11 ',S. 

 This species is known only from the original collection, and tlie type is possibly 

 only a dwarfed state of the Rizal form discussed above under H. javanica Bi. 

 A full series of specimens will be necessary definitely to settle this point. So 

 far as our material goes, H. ly.~omca is distinguishable by its small leaves. 



HIPTAGE MADA'BLOTA (Uevtu. ( = H. hcnghnloi^i^ (L.) (). Kt/,e.) has been cred- 

 ited to the Archipelago bv various authors, but 1 have seen no Philippine material 

 that I consider to be referable to that species. The plant so figured by Vidal 

 in his "Sinopsis Atlas" unquestionably represents the Luzon form discussed under 

 H. javanica, while the plant so identified by him in his "Phanerogamae Cumin- 

 gianae Philippinarum" has above been made the type of a new species, H. cumingu. 

 The form so credited to the Philippines by F.-Villar in the "Novissima Appendix" 

 is doubtless, for most part, the same as that figured by Vidal. as the specimens 

 F -Villar examined came from the Province of Manila ( = Rizal ) . 



" Trioptens jamnicemis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 379, ed. 2 (1845) 207, non 

 Linn is manifestlv Hiplage, although not H. madaUota Gaertn., where it was 

 referred by F.-Villar. It is probably the form figured by Vidal, mentioned above, 

 as this is ^apparently the only species of the genus that is at all common in the 

 region from which Blanco secured most of his material. 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



ACALYPHA Linn. 



Acalypha grandibracteata sp. nov. 



Species A. stipulaceae valde affinis, differt foliis latioribus, basi cordatis 

 vel subcordatis, braeteis multo majoribus, usque ad 1 ad 2 cm longis. 



A shrill) or small tree, slightly puberulent or pubescent. Brajiches 

 pale or reddish-ln-owii, pidiernlent, sometimes stout and thickened. 

 Leaves l)roadlY ovate to oblong-ovate, chartaceous or submembranaceous, 

 12 to 20 cm long, 7 to 15 cm wide, with minute, scattered, white pustules 

 on both surfaces, and with very few, scattered, long hairs, the margins 

 regularly and rather finely erenate-serrate, the apex acuminate, the base 

 broad and cordate or subcordate, palmately 7- or 9-nerved from the base; 

 petioles 20 cm in length or less; stipules linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 

 1.5 to 2 cm long. Staminate and pistillate spikes on the same plant, or 

 apparently more often on separate plants, the staminate ones dense, cylin- 

 dric. pubescent, often 20 cm long, about 3 mm in dianietei". the flowers 

 3- or l-merous. Pistillate spikes peduncled, stout, 20 cm long or less, 

 about 2 cm in diameter, the bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, toothed, 

 about 1 cm long, the lowermost ones sometimes 2 cm in length, more 

 or less appressed-hirsute on the back, the pistillate flowers solitary in 

 the axil of each bract. Ovary hirsute; styles nearly 3 mm long, split 



