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mm long. Filaments 2 mm long, glabrous, base thick, atten- 

 uate upward. Immature fruits densely pubescent, obovoid, the 

 apex somewhat retuse, about 8 mm long, normally 2-celled. • 



Mindanao, Zamboanga District, Malangas and Mount Tubuan, 

 Bur. Sci. 37284 (type), 36702 Ramos & Edano, October, 1919. 

 In secondary forests at low altitudes. 



A species closely allied to Dichapetalum holopetalunt Merr., 

 from which it is distinguished especially by its glabrous, not 

 ciliate branches, and otherwise by its scanty, very different 

 indumentum, in the present species the nerves, branches, 

 etc., being merely appressed-pubescent with short hairs, while 

 in Dichapetalum holopetalum the hairs are elongated and 

 spreading. 



EUPHORBIACEAE 



CROTON Linnaeus 

 CROTON LANCILIMBUS sp. nov. 



Frutex circiter 1 m altus, partibus junioribus plus minusve 

 lepidotis; foliis numerosis, anguste lanceolatis, membranaceis, 

 10 ad 15 cm longis, 1 ad 1.5 cm latis, in siocitate pallidis, basi 

 plerumque cuneatis, apice tenuiter caudato-acuminatis, supra 

 glabris, subtus minute stellato-lepidotis, nervis utrinque circiter 

 10, tenuibus, petiolo 3 ad 5 mm longo ; inf ructescentiis tenuibus, 

 circiter 4 cm longis, lepidotis, capsulis paucis, circiter 6 mm 

 diametro, brunneo-lepidotis, stylis 3 mm longis, trifidis. 



A shrub about 1 m high, the younger parts and the lower 

 surface of the leaves more or less lepidote, branches terete, 

 rather slender, glabrous, the branchlets rather densely lepi- 

 dote with dark-brown, minute scales. Leaves narrowly lanceo- 

 late, membranaceous, 10 to 15 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, pale 

 when dry, subequally narrowed to the cuneate or abruptly obtuse 

 base and to the slenderly caudate-acuminate apex, the upper 

 surface glabrous, shining, the lower surface supplied with scat- 

 tered, minute, white, shining, stellate scales which are closely 

 appressed to the surface; lateral nerves very slender, about 10 

 on each side of the midrib, distant, anastomosing ; petioles 3 to 5 

 mm long, biglandular at the apex. Inf ructescences in the upper- 

 most axils or terminal, simple, slender, about 4 cm long, lepidote, 

 the capsules few, about 6 mm in diameter, brown-lepidote, the 

 persistent styles about 3 mm long, trifid. 



Mindanao, Zamboanga District, Malangas, Bur. Sci. 36855 

 (type) , 37078 Ramos & Edano, October, 1919. Along the banks 

 of rivers at low altitudes. 



