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long. Ovary densely tomentose; styles stout, densely bearded, 

 about 4 mm long. Infructescences dense, cylindric, about 10 

 cm long and 3.5 to 4 cm in diameter, the individual capsules, 

 including the thick indumentum, about 1.5 cm long, densely 

 covered with filiform, densely stellate-tomentose, weak, vari- 

 ously incurved and intertwined, slender processes. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Tulaog, Bur. Sci. 29153 

 Ramos & Edano (type). May, 1917; Atimonan, Whitford 711, 

 August, 1904. Samar, Yabong, Phil. PI. 1650 Merrill, March, 

 1914, with fruits. Mindanao, Davao District, DeVore & 

 Hoover, May, 1903. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with Mallotus har- 

 batus Muell.-Arg., to which I previously referred Whitford 

 711, a specimen with pistillate flowers. Pax & Hoffmann ^ 

 have already indicated that Whitford's specimen apparently 

 represented a distinct species. Now that complete material is 

 available, presenting staminate and pistillate flowers and 

 fruits, it is clearly evident that this Philippine form is dis- 

 tinct from Mallotits harhatus Muell.-Arg. 



MALLOTUS PAPUAN us (J. J. Sm.) Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanz- 

 enreich 63 (1914) 202. 



Mallotus hookerianus Muell.-Arg. var. papuanus J. J. Sm. in Nova 

 Guinea 8 (1912) 787, t. 137. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 3Jf5Jf9 Ramos & Pas- 

 casio, April 30, 1919, in damp forests at low altitudes. 



A species previously known only fnam New Guinea but 

 scarcely distinguishable from Mallotus hookerianus Muell.-Arg. 

 from southern China. The specimen is with mature fruits 

 and agrees very closely with a cotype before me, Gjellerup 816!, 

 staminate specimen. 



MALLOTUS LONGISTYLUS sp. nov. § Axenfeldia. 



Frutex vel arbor parva, glabra, vel partibus junioribus lev- 

 iter pubescens ; foliis alternis, oblongis, subcoriaceis, nitidis, 

 penninerviis, eglandulosis, 25 ad 30 cm longis, basi rotundatis, 

 apice tenuiter acuminatis, integris, nervis utrinque circiter 15; 

 stipulis ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, coriaceis, 7 ad 15 mm longis; 

 racemis 9 solitariis, circiter 10 cm longis, plerumque 3-floris, 

 sepalis anguste lanceolatis, circiter 6 mm longis, capsulis sub- 

 globosis, leviter pubescens, baud glandulosis, spinis paucis 

 tenuibus usque ad 2 mm longis, armatis. 



'Engl. Pflanzenreich 63 (1914) 165. 



