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Stamens about 100; filaments free, fflabrous, about 3 mm. long; antluT cells on the 

 margin of the rather broad connective, parallel, the cells somewhat confluent at 

 the apex, the filaments straight in bud, the anthers erect, the disk glands about 

 1 mm. long. Female inflorescence similar to the male but the pedicels shorter, the 

 flowers solitary, scattered, the bracts minute or wanting. Ovary densely hirsute, 

 .'Mobed, 3-celled; style arms 6, slender, glabrous, about 2.5 mm. long. Fruit dry, 

 .3-celled, dehiscent, about 1 cm. in diameter, glabrous. Seed about 6 mm. long, 

 pale brown, marked with reddish brown dashes. 



{2216) Meyer) December; (1908 Borden) September; (273 Whitford) May; 

 (G886 Elmer) November; (2517 Merrill) June; {Copeland) February. In for- 

 ests 300 to 600 m. Differing from typical Codiaum in the absence of the petals 

 and in the numerous stamens. 



24. DIMORPHOCALYX Thwaites. 



1. Dimorphocalyx longipes Merrill, sp. nov. 



A tree 10 lo 12 m. high. Branches browTi, glabrous, the younger jjarls often 

 slightly pubescent. Leaves alternate, long petiolate, oblong, entire, or slightly, 

 obscurely repand-crenate and with distant minute glandular teeth, the apex short 

 acuminate, the base acute or obtuse, glabrous, shining, submembranous, dark 

 colored when dry, 9 to 20 cm. long, 3 to 6 cm. wide; nerves 11 to 12 on each side 

 of the midrib, distant, distinct beneath, anastomosing, the reticulations very lax ; 

 petioles 2 to 10 cm. long, slender, glabrous. Dicecious. Male inflorescence axil- 

 lary, spicate, 3 to 10 cm. long, glabrous or slightly pubescent, the flowers purplish, 

 sessile in fascicles of from 3 to 6 or more, the bracts small. Sepals 5, slightly 

 united below, oblong ovate to obovate, obtuse, 2 to 2.5 mm. long. Petals 5, imbri- 

 cate, free, obtuse, glabrous, elliptical ovate, about 2.5 nun. long. Stamens 5, the 

 filaments very short and united or wanting, the anthers more or less united in a 

 globose head 1 mm. in diameter, the cells parallel, not confluent. Pistillate 

 inflorescence a narrow panicle, or a reduced raceme or spike, 5 to 15 cm. long, the 

 bracts oblong, foliaoeous, persistent, 5 to 8 mm. long, the flowers solitary or fas- 

 cicled, sessile or pedicelled. Calyx and corolla of the male. Ovary 3-celled, 1 

 ovule in each cell, the styles very short, 3, erect, each cleft. Sepals accrescent 

 persistent, about 5 mm. long in young fruit. 



(106G Whitford) January; (1801 Borden) September. In forests 175 to 250 

 ni. No. 2699 Merrill, Bosoboso, Province of Rizal, Luzon, is apparently the same. 



25. ENDOSPERM UM Bciilli. 



1. E. peltatum Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 25 (1905) 35. 



(716, 1669, 1672, 1747, 2754 Borden) May, August, Marcii. In forests 100 to 

 200 m. Endemic. T., Callueoy. 



26. EXCCECARIA l.iiin. 



1. E. agallocha Linn.; Mueil. Arg. 1. e. 1220. 



(1271 W'Irilford) May. In thickets along the seasliore, generally distributed 

 tliroughout the Philippines. Tropical shores of Asia, Malaya, Australia, and 

 Pf)lyneHia. T., Butahuta. 



2. Excoecaria philippinensis Merrill sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree 3 to 8 m. high. Braiuhes brown, striate, glabrous. 

 Leaves alternate, oblong lanceolate to oblong oblanceolate, short blunt acuminate, 

 gradually narrowed below to the acute base, entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous, pale 

 when dry and somewhat shining, 7 to 20 cm. long, 1.5 to 4.5 cm. wide; nerves 

 18 to 20 on each side of the midrib, distant, spreading, indistinct, anastomosing, 

 the reticulations somewhat lax; petioles 1 to 3 cm. long, usually slender, glabrous. 



