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fulvo-villosis ; petalis extus parce adpresse villosis; antheris 8; 
tubo libero, truncato, quam petalis paullo brevioribus, extus parce 
adpresse villoso. 
A tree, size not indicated, more or less fulvous-villous or hir- 
sute with usually appressed hairs. Ultimate branches brown, 
glabrous, up to 1 cm in diameter, the branchlets sparingly ful- 
vous-villous, the very young leaves densely so. Leaves alternate, 
up to 50 cm in length, the petioles, costa, midrib, and lateral 
nerves on the lower surface prominently appressed fulvous- 
villous; leaflets 4 to 8, possibly more on the older branches, 
oblong, subcoriaceous, brownish when dry, exceedingly variable 
in size, 10 to 22 cm long, 4 to 5 cm wide, entire, or the younger 
ones prominently repand-undulate, acuminate, base acute to 
rounded; lateral nerves 8 to 15 on each side of the midrib, prom- 
inent. Inflorescences narrowly paniculate, from tubercles on the 
trunk and larger branches, sometimes axillary on the young 
branchlets, 20 to 50 cm long, prominently fulvous-villous, the 
branches scattered, few flowered, mostly under 4 cm in length, 
slender. Flowers 4-merous, about 1.8 cm long. Calyx cup- 
shaped, truncate, 4 to 5 mm long, rather densely appressed ful- 
vous-villous. Petals 4, free or nearly so, about 18 mm long, 
somewhat spatulate, apical portion rounded, 3 mm wide, out- 
side, especially in the upper part, sparingly appressed-villous. 
Staminal-tube cylindric, free, about 16 mm long, truncate, outside 
appressed-villous. Stamens 8, the anthers oblong, 2 mm long. 
Ovary (rudimentary) very densely villous-hirsute, the style about 
as long as the staminal tube, appressed-villous in the lower two- 
thirds, glabrous above ; stigma subcapitate. 
Samar, Catubig River, Bur. Sci. 24457 (type), 24519 Ramos, March, 
1916, in forests at low altitudes near Las Navas, locally known as mala~ 
pauhauli. 
The alliance of this characteristic species is manifestly with Chisochiton 
tetrapetalus Turcz., from which it differs not only in its cauline inflorescence, 
but also in its prominent indumentum, its larger, fewer flowers, densely 
villous ovary, petals sparingly villous externally, prominently pubescent 
truncate calyx, and numerous other characters. 
EUPHORBIACEAE 
EXCOECARIA Linnaeus 
EXCOECARI A STENOPHYLLA sp. nov. § Commia. 
Frutex glaber, monoicus ; foliis alternis, subcoriaceis, integris, 
linear i-lanceolatis, usque ad 11 cm longis et 1 cm latis, nitidis, 
obtusis vel leviter acuminatis ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, racemis 
2 ad 3 cm longis; fioribus $ numerosis, bracteis 4-glandulosis, 
