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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1914 
mm long, pubescent only near the apex. Petals oblong to oblong- 
oblanceolate, membranaceous, about 4 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, 
the margins lanate. Disk lanate. Stamens about 12 ; filaments 
3 mm long, glabrous; anthers very broad, about 1 mm long 
Pedicels glabrous, 5 to 6 mm long. Pistillate flowers in general 
similar to the staminate ones. Sepals ovate, acuminate, 5 mm 
long. Ovary densely pubescent, broadly ovoid; style-arms about 
4 mm long, glabrous. 
Luzon, Subprovince of Bontoc, Bauco, Vanoverbergh 3107, April 25, 
1913, on hillsides, altitude about 1,300 meters. 
A species similar to and manifestly allied to Croton caudatus Geisel., 
differing especially in being nearly glabrous throughout, with the exception 
of the flowers. In vegetative characters the plant very strongly resembles 
the widely distributed Colubrina asiatica Rich., from whence its specific 
name. 
VITACEAE 
LEE A Linnaeus 
LEEA EUPHLEBI A sp. nov. 
Frutex circiter 2 m altus; foliis decompositis, circiter 50 cm 
longis, glabris vel foliolis junioribus subtus ad costa leviter 
ciliatis; foliolis numerosis, chartaceis, ovatis ad oblong-lan- 
ceolatis, in siccitate brunneis, 5 ad 12 cm longis, caudato-acum- 
inatis, basi acutis vel obtusis, nervis reticulisque prominentibus ; 
inflorescentiis ad 20 cm diametro, in alabastro minoribus, densis, 
pubescentibus ; floribus 5-rneris, rubris. 
A shrub about 2 m high, except the inflorescence glabrous or 
nearly so. Leaves decompound, up to 50 cm long, the lower 
pinnae up to 40 cm in length, glabrous or the younger leaves 
slightly ciliate on the midribs beneath, eglandular; leaflets 
brownish when dry, dull or slightly shining, the lower surface 
a little paler than the upper, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 12 
cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, chartaceous, the base acute or obtuse, 
the apex slenderly caudate-acuminate, the margins prominently 
serrate, each third or fourth tooth usually larger than the others ; 
petiolules slenderly but distinctly winged, the wings subundulate 
or somewhat crisped; lateral nerves 10 to 12 on each side of 
the midrib of average and larger leaves, fewer in smaller 
leaves, very prominent on the lower surface, anastomosing, the 
reticulations slender, subparallel, distinct. Inflorescence in bud 
or early anthesis 4 to 6 cm in diameter, dense, densely brown- 
pubescent, in full anthesis open, lax, up to 20 cm in diameter, 
the branches divaricate, the older parts sometimes nearly glab- 
rous. Flowers red, 5-merous, the bracteoles triangular-ovate, 
