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the petioles 3 to 6 cm long, inserted 0.3 to 1 cm from the margin 

 and with two conspicuous glands at the juncture with the 

 lamina; lateral nerves 6 to 8 on each side of the midrib, con- 

 spicuous. Inflorescences up to 10 cm long. Staminate flowers 

 numerous, about 1.5 mm in diameter, their pedicels up to 3 mm 

 long, the bracts small, entire, 1-flowered, each with two con- 

 spicuous contiguous glands; sepal 1, orbicular-reniform, about 1 

 mm in diameter; stamens about 30, the anthers subsessile, 

 minutely papillate. Fruits 8 to 10 at the base of the inflores- 

 cence, subglobose, about 5 mm in diameter, their pedicels about 

 4 mm long; styles very early deciduous, not seen. 



Mindanao, Bukidnon Subprovince, near Tankulan, Bur. Sci. 

 S9166 Ramos & Edano, July, 1920, with the local name labagti. 

 Habitat not recorded, altitude indicated as about 1,000 meters. 



ALCHORNEA Swartz 

 ALCHORNEA PUBESCENS sp. nov. § Cladodes. 



Species A. rugosae affinis, differt ramulis et infructescentiis 

 et subtus foliis molliter subferrugineo-villosis, foliis caudato- 

 acuminatis, nervis magis numerosis, utrinque circiter 15. 



A shrub about 3 m high, the branchlets, inflorescences, and 

 lower surface of the leaves softly subferruginous-villous, the 

 indumentum often dense. Leaves oblanceolate, 17 to 25 cm 

 long, 3 to 6 cm wide, slenderly caudate-acuminate, the acumen 

 often falcate, narrowed below to the abruptly auriculate-cordate 

 base, the margins distantly glandular-toothed, the upper surface 

 glabrous except for the slightly hirsute midrib, olivaceous, the 

 base with 1 or 2 conspicuous glands and usually with 1 or 2 

 similar glands between each pair of nerves in the lower one- 

 half to two-thirds; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of the 

 midrib, prominent, curved, arched-anastomosing, the primary 

 reticulations also prominent; petioles densely pubescent, 

 about 5 mm long; stipules linear, pubescent, 7 to 10 mm long. 

 Pistillate inflorescences terminal or subterminal, more or less 

 pubescent, spiciform, 7 to 10 cm long, each flower subtended by 

 a pair of conspicuous glands. Fruits depressed-globose, about 

 9 mm wide, pubescent, the style arms 3, slightly pubescent, 

 about 5 mm long. 



Luzon, Cagayan Province, Pefiablanca, For. Bur. 22724 Cas- 

 tillo, April 23, 1915. On slopes at low altitudes. 



A species very similar and manifestly closely allied to Alchor- 

 nea rugosa Muell.-Arg., from which it differs in its softly 



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