16,6 Merrill: Philippine Euphorbiaceae, III 561 



A nearly glabrous shrub or small tree, the branchlets terete, 

 brownish, glabrous, about 2 mm in diameter, the very young 

 parts slightly pubescent. Leaves alternate, oblong, subcoria- 

 ceous, shining, eglandular, 25 to 30 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide, 

 the base rounded, without glands, apex rather slenderly acu- 

 minate, margins entire; lateral nerves about 15 on each side 

 of the midrib, curved, prominent; petioles 2 to 3 cm long, 

 thickened at base and apex; stipules ovate to oblong-ovate, co- 

 riaceous, somewhat acuminate, 7 to 15 mm long, 5 to 8 mm 

 wide, attached by their broad bases. Pistillate racemes soli- 

 tary, leaf-opposed, slightly pubescent, about 10 cm long, usually 

 about 3-flowered, the pedicels 5 mm long or less. Sepals nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, acuminate, about 6 mm long, somewhat 

 appressed-pubescent. Capsules subglobose, sparingly pubescent, 

 not glandular, armed with rather slender, spreading, scattered 

 spines up to 2 mm in length, the individual cocci about 7 mm 

 in diameter; styles densely papillate, up to 4 cm in length. 



DiNAGAT, Bur. Sci. 35173 Ramos & Pascasio, May 11, 1919, 

 in forests at low altitudes. 



This characteristic species apparently belongs in the sec- 

 tion Axenfeldia and is perhaps most closely allied to Mallotus 

 calvus Pax & Hoffm. The elongated, entire, eglandular, alternate 

 leaves, and the persistent, coriaceous stipules are characteristic. 



WETRIA Baillon 



WETRIA MACROPHYLLA (Blume) J. J. Sm. in Meded. Dept. Landbouw 

 10 (1910) 471; Pax & Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenreich 63 (1914) 219. 



Trewia macrophylla Blume Bijdr. (1825) 612. 

 Wetria trewioides Baill. fitud. Gen. Euphorb. (1858) 409. 

 Pseudotrenria macrophylla Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 ' (1859) 414. 

 Alchornea blumeana Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 34 (1865) 167, DC. 



Prodr. 15' (1866) 900. 

 Agrostistachys pubescens Merr. in Philip. Joum. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 



274; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenreich 57 (1912) 99. 



Luzon, Eataan Province, For. Bur. 5940 Curran, January,. 

 1907, For. Bur. 23450 Sherfesee & Alamhra, January, 1915. 

 Negros, For. Bur. 23871 Cardoiia, April, 1915. Bancalan,. 

 Weber, September, 1916. In bamboo thickets and in forests 

 at low altitudes. A monotypic genus previously known from 

 Borneo, Sumatra, and Java. 



This species is a very characteristic one and, although our 

 available Philippine material is all in fruit, I have not the 

 slightest hesitancy in referring it to the Malayan Wetria macro- 

 phylla (Blume) J. J. Sm., it agreeing closely with our series of 



