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1914 
exceed 1.5 mm in length and which are usually sparingly ciliate 
especially at their apices. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, between Digas and Santa Cruz, Williams 
2968 (type) June 29, 1905; District of Cotabato, Gian, For. Bur. 18270 
Miranda, For. Bur. 14246 Tarrosa, May 25, 1912, all from low altitudes. 
The species is a very characteristic one, but in the absence of staminate 
flowers I am not at all sure that it is really referable to the genus Mallotus. 
So far as the material goes, however, it agrees with Mallotus, and is hence 
placed in that genus. The striking characters of Mallotus brevipes are 
its very short-petioled, eglandular leaves which are pinnately nerved and 
narrowed to the distinctly cordate base, and its axillary, solitary, rather 
long-pedicelled, echinate fruits. 
MALLOTUS SAMARENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, subglabra; foliis alternis, glabris, 
oblongis, usque ad 20 cm longis, acuminatis, basi angustatis, 
acutis vel obtusis, margine distanter serrulatis, eglandulosis ; 
nervis lateralibus utrinque 9 vel 10, prominentibus ; petiolo usque 
ad 2.5 cm longo; inflorescentiis $ axillaribus, solitariis, race- 
mosis, folia subaequantibus ; floribus numerosis, glomeratis, 
breviter pedicellatis, sepalis circiter 2.5 mm longis. 
A shrub or small tree, subglabrous, apparently dioecious. 
Branches terete, pale-grayish, glabrous, the growing tips some- 
what appressed-hirsute. Leaves alternate, oblong, chartaceous, 
16 to 20 cm long, 5 to 7 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the dis- 
tinctly acuminate apex and to the acute or obtuse base, the 
margins distantly serrulate, brownish-olivaceous, of the same 
color on both surfaces, and slightly shining when dry, eglandular ; 
lateral nerves 9 or 10 on each side of the midrib, prominent, 
curved, anastomosing, the reticulations slender, subparallel; 
petioles up to 2.5 cm long. Male inflorescences racemose, axil- 
lary, solitary, very slightly pubescent, as long as the leaves, the 
flowers very numerous, in scattered or nearly approximate 
glomerules about 5 mm in diameter, the pedicels about 1 mm long, 
each glomerule with numerous, brown, ovate, acuminate, some- 
what ciliate bracteoles about 1 mm in length. Sepals 3, ovate, 
acute to acuminate, 2.5 mm long. Anthers very numerous ; fila- 
ments 0.8 mm long, flattened. 
Samar, Yabong, Bur. Sci. 17480 Ramos, March 18, 1914, on forested 
slopes. 
A species characterized by its oblong, eglandular leaves and its race- 
mose staminate inflorescence, the flowers in numerous, dense, scattered or 
approximate glomerules, the racemes as long as the leaves. It is allied 
to Mallotus ramosii Merr., differing in its longer leaves which are but 
slightly and distantly serrulate and not l'ounded at the base, its longer 
petioles, and stouter racemes which have much larger glomerules and 
more numerous flowers than in M. ramosii Merr. 
