274 
MERRILL. 
long as the leaves, densely ferruginous-puberulent, peduncled, the lower 
branches about 7 cm long, the upper ones shorter. Flowers pedicelled, 
glabrous. Calyx about 2.5 mm in diameter, short, obscurely 4-toothed. 
Petals 4, oblong, 4 to 5 mm long, about 1.4 mm wide, glabrous. Staminal 
tube eyclindric, 3 mm long, irregularly toothed at the apex; anthers 8, 
oblong, 1 mm long, borne at the top of the tube, included. Disk cylindric, 
1 mm long, free, the apex densely ferruginous-hirsute. Ovary somewhat 
ferruginous-hirsute; style 2.5 mm long, glabrous. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, San Vicente, For. Bur. 7079 Klemme, May, 1907, 
in dense hill-forests at an altitude of about 30 m. Neg., Tibungao. 
A species in the group with Dysoxylum thyrsoideum Hiern., but very different 
from that species and apparently also from all other allied forms. 
EUPHOKBIACE2E. 
AG ROST I STAC HYS Dalz. 
Agrostistachys pubescens sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, ramulis, subtus foliis, inflorescentiiscjue plus minus pubes- 
centibus; foliis oblongo-obovatis, membranaceis vel chartaceis, circiter 
22 cm longis, apic-e acuminatis, basi angustatis, cuneatis, minute irre- 
gulariter glanduloso-serratis vel subintegris, supra glabris, subtus ad 
costam nervosque plus minus villosis; inflorescentiis foliis longioribus; 
fructibus dense pubescentibus. 
A small tree, the branchlets, inflorescence and the under surface of the 
leaves more or less pubescent. Branches terete, grayish-brown, pubescent, 
sparingly lenticellate. Leaves membranaceous or chartaceous, 18 to 25 
cm long, 9 to 11 cm wide, oblong-obovate, the apex rather abruptly 
acuminate, gradually narrowed from just below the middle to the cuneate 
base, subentire or slightly and distantly irregularly glandular-serrate, the 
upper surface glabrous, shining, the lower more or less villous on the 
midrib and lateral nerves; nerves prominent, parallel, 25 to 30 on each 
side of the midrib, the reticulations distinct, parallel; petioles stout, 
pubescent, less than 5 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, exceed- 
ing the leaves, incipient spikes very short, composed of numerous imbri- 
cate, ovate, acuminate, more or less pubescent bracts mostly less than 1 
mm in length, not distichous; mature inflorescence slightly pubescent, 
the rachis 40 to 60 cm long. Flowers unknown. Fruits dry, subglobose, 
dehiscent, 3-celled, about 8 or 9 mm in diameter, outside densely oliva- 
ceous- or yellowish-pubescent; seeds subglobose, about 5 mm in diameter; 
shining. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mabayo, For. Bur. 597 t 0 Curran, January, 1907-, 
in bamboo thickets along streams. 
A species readily recognizable in tire genus by its pubescence, the second one to 
be found in the Philippines. 
