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basal ones 8, prominent; nerves leaving the midrib above the base about 
6 on each side, the reticulations distinct; petioles 10 to 15 cm long, 
terete, pubescent. Inflorescence axillary and from the stems below the 
leaves, the staminate fasciculate, dense, of very short racemose panicles 
2 cm long or less, their branches 1 cm long or less, gray-pubescent; 
braeteoles cuneate, pubescent, yellow-glandular, about 5 mm long, lacerate- 
pectinate; stamens few: pistillate inflorescence axillary and from the 
axils below the leaves, racemose, usually solitary 3 cm long or less, 
pubescent, each raceme few-flowered; pedicels stout, pubescent, 2 mm 
long; calyx pubescent, cup-shapecl, truncate, about 2.5 mm long; ovary 
globose, densely yellowish waxy-glandular, 2- to 4-celled; styles recurved, 
more or less pectinate ; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, lacerate-pectinate, 
more or less pubescent, 6 to 8 mm long. 
Palawan, near Puerto Princesa, For. Bur. 3590, 3591 Curran, January, 1900, 
in old clearings at about 20 m above sea level, the former with staminate flowers, 
the latter with pistillate ones. 
This species probably belongs in the section Pachystemon, although 2-, 3-, and 
4-celled ovaries were found on the same plant. It is well characterized by its 
suborbicular, nearly entire or slightly 3-lobed leaves, and especially by its short, 
congested, axillary and eauline inflorescences, the staminate being paniculate, and 
the pistillate racemose. 
M ALLOT US Lour. 
Mallotus korthalsii Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 1 5 2 (1862) 976. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Aparri, For. Bur. 17072 Curran, February, 1909. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9017 Whitford <£ 
Hutchinson, November, 1907. 
New to the Philippines; previously known only from Borneo and Celebes. 
IVUCRODESMIS Planch. 
Microdesmis caseariaefolia Planch, in Hook. Ic. PI. (1844) sub. t. 758; 
Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 1 5 2 (1862) 1041. 
Palawan, near Puerto Princesa, Bur. Sci. 21/9 Bermejos, December, 1905; 
Mount Victoria, For. Bur. 1/138 Curran, Bur. Sci. 732 Foxwortliy, March, 1906. 
Balabac, \Merrill 5380, October, 1906. 
Burma to southern China, the Malay Peninsula, and Borneo. The genus is 
new to the Philippines except for a single specimen collected in Palawan by Vidal 
and reported without specific name by Ceron; 8 Vidal’s specimen in the Ivew 
herbarium, is apparently identical with the material here referred to Planchon’s 
species. 
OSTODES Blume. 
Ostodes serrato-crenata sp. nov. 
Arbor subglabra 8 ad 12 m alta; foliis cbartaceis vel subcoriaceis, in 
sicco brunneis, nitidis, oblongis vel elliptico-oblongis, usque ad 30 cm 
longis, basi acutis vel acuminatis, apice breviter acuminatis, margine 
gross irregulariter crenato-serratis, dentibus glanduliferis ; nervis utrinque 
Cat, PI. Herb. (Manila) (1892) 151. 
