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Staminate inflorescence axillary, slender, spicate, many flowered, densely light 
gray pubescent, often 20 cm. long, the flowers fascicled, sessile, ebracteolate, the 
buds globose. Sepals 4, oblong-ovate, acute, pubescent, about 1 mm. long. 
Stamens 8 ; filaments about 0.5 mm. long, free, the anther cells divergent. 
Pistillate inflorescence slender, axillary, solitary, spicate, simple, 15 to 25 cm. 
long, densely light gray pubescent. Flowers rather distant, sessile, ebracteolate, 
solitary. Calj'x 1 mm. in diameter or less, 3-lobed. Ovary globose or ovoid, 
densely pubescent, 3-eelled, about 1.5 mm. in diameter; styles 5 to 6 mm. long, 
fimbriate. 
(250C Merrill) June; (1249 Ahern’s collector) August. In thickets below 
100 m., a species well characterized by its very long, slender, ebracteolate, densely 
pubescent spikes. 
2. A. stipulacea Klotz. ; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 807. 
(2640, 2847, 2848 Meyer) February, March. In forests 000 to 900 m. Malaya 
to New Guinea. 
19. TRAGI A Linn. 
1. T. sp. 
(2910 Borden) March. Scandent, in forests at 200 m., a characteristic species 
with oblong, cordate leaves, with few stinging hairs. Specimens with immature 
fruit. 
20. HOMONOYA Lour. 
1. H. riparia Lour.; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 1023. 
(6 Whitford) April; (0777 Elmer) November; (2237 Meyer) December; (280 
Copeland) January; (724 Borden) May. Along the borders of, and on gravel 
bars in the bed of the Lamao River below 300 m., abundant. Along most streams 
thioughout the Philippines. Tropical Asia to Java. T., Bayanti, Lumanaia. 
21. JATROPHA Linn. 
1. J. curcas Linn.; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 1080. 
(384 Whitford) June; (2582 Meyer) February; (7017 Elmer) November; 
(0122 Leibery) July. In old clearings below 100 m., a native of tropical America, 
now planted throughout the Philippines. T., Tungantangan. 
22. MANI HOT Adans. 
1. M. utilissima Pohl.; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 1004. 
Occasionalljr cultivated (Whitford) . A. native of tropical America, now gen- 
erally cultivated throughout the Philippines. The Tapioca or Cassava. T., Ca- 
moting cahoy. 
23. CODIyCUM Rumph. 
1. Codiaeum ( ?) luzonicum Merrill, sp. nov. 
Erect, unbranched, shrubby, 0.8 to 1.0 m. high. Stems gray or brown, glabrous, 
the younger portions somewhat ferruginous pubescent, the leaf scars large and 
prominent. Leaves alternate, more 'or less crowded at the tip of the stem, char- 
taceous, glabrous, somewhat shining, narrowly oblong obovate to oblong oblan- 
ceolate, entire, the apex abruptly acute or rounded, gradually narrowed below 
to the acute, often rather abruptly cuneate base, 20 to 30 cm. long, 5 to 11 cm. 
wide; nerves 13 to 15 on each side of the midrib, prominent beneath, spreading, 
distant, the reticulations very lax; petioles stout, 2 to 4 cm. long. Dioecious. 
Male inflorescence terminal or axillary, racemose, erect, 20 to 40 cm. long, the 
rhaehis stout, appressed pubescent. Flowers white, the buds globose, the pedicels 
5 to 10 mm. long, slender, pubescent, usually fascicled. Sepals, 5, orbicular ovate, 
rounded, about 5 mm. long, appressed hirsute pubescent outside. Petals none. 
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