NOTES ON PHILIPPINE EUPHORBIACEAE. 
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cellate, usually light-brown or somewhat reddish, rarely dark- 
colored. Leaves firmly membranaceous to chartaceous, elliptic 
to oblong-elliptic, up to 20 cm in length and 10 cm wide, smaller 
leaves half as large, shining when dry, of about the same color 
on both surfaces, the base usually broadly rounded, apex prom- 
inently acuminate; nerves 13 to 16 on each side of the mid- 
rib, prominent, somewhat ascending, curved near the margins, 
scarcely or very slightly anastomosing, the reticulations sub- 
parallel, slender; petioles 5 to 10 mm long. Flowers 5-merous, 
small, in dense, axillary, many-flowered fascicles, male and 
female flowers in the same fascicle, sessile. Male buds globose, 
the anthers broadly elliptic, about 0.5 mm long. Petals about 
1 mm long. Female flowers 2 mm long, the calyx-lobes oblong- 
ovate, acuminate, 1.5 mm long. Petals narrowly oblong, thin, 
0.5 mm long. Disk slightly hairy, surrounding the ovary, the 
narrowly ovoid ovary and the style together 2 mm long. Bracts 
thin, more or less hirsute, about 2 mm long. Fruit reddish-purple 
when mature, ellipsoid, 8 to 10 mm long, shortly stipitate, apex 
rounded and minutely apiculate, indehiscent, 1-celled, 1-seeded, 
the seed hard, very deeply sulcate longitudinally. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Lalloc, For. Bur. 18504- Alvarez, in fruit, 
March, 1909; Abulug River, Bur. Sci. 14557 Ramos, in fruit, January, 
1912: Province of Laguna, Siniloan, For. Bur. 17634 Curran, February, 
1910, in fruit; Santa Maria, For. Bur. 22229 Mariano, sterile; Mount 
Maquiling, For. Bur. 11725 Whitford, sterile: Province of Bulacan, Angat, 
For. Bur. 11167 Aguilar (type), in flower, April, 1908: Province of Ba- 
tangas, Santo Tomas, For. Bur. 21528 Tamesis, May, 1910, in flower: 
Province of Tayabas, Guinayangan, For. Bur. 18676 Darling, sterile. Ta- 
BLAS, For. Bur. 19530 Jose, sterile. Mindanao, District of Cotabato, For. 
Bur. 15421 Pray, March, 1911, in flower: Province of Misamis, Dapitan, 
Piper 87, April, 1911, in flower. 
All of the above specimens have some or all of the leaves large with from 
12 to 16 pairs of lateral nerves; some of them in addition have smaller 
leaves, about one-half the normal size, with from 8 to 10 pairs of nerves. 
The following series of specimens have only the smaller, few-nerved leaves, 
but in all essential characters appear to be the same as the species described 
above: Luzon, Province of Camarines, For. Bur. 10431 Curran, May, 1908, 
in fruit: Province of Tayabas, Guinayangan, Merrill 2025, in flower. Min- 
danao, District of Zamboanga, Ahern 372, 641, in flower. Basilan, Hallier 
s. n., in flower. 
Most of the material cited above has been identifled as Bridelia ovata 
Decne., a species belonging in the section Eubridelia, which does not 
appear to occur in the Philippines. At least one specimen of the small- 
leaved form, Merrill 2025, has been named by Gehrmann in the Herbarium 
of the New York Botanical Garden as Bridelia subnuda K. Schum. & 
Lauterb., a species described from New Guinea material, which is also 
placed by Gehrmann in the section Eubridelia.^" Fruiting specimens of 
