NOTES ON PHILIPPINE EUPHORBIACEAE. 
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Male flowers and fruits unknown. Female inflorescence axillary, 
solitary, rather lax, paniculate, about 6 cm long, slightly pubes- 
cent; bracts oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 3 mm long or less. 
Calyx about 1.5 mm long, irregularly splitting into 3 or 4, ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate lobes. Ovary globose, densely covered 
with pale waxy glands, 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; stigma lateral, simple, 
papillose throughout, somewhat curved, tapering, 5 to 6 mm 
long. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River Mountains back of San 
Ramon, Merrill 8076, November 28, 1911. In forests on ridges, altitude 
about 1,100 m. 
A species probably belonging in Macaranga, although the male flowers 
are unknown, well characterized by its 1-celled ovaries, lateral simple 
styles which are stigmatose throughout, and pinnately veined, non-peltate 
leaves. 
MAL LOTUS Loureiro. 
MALLOTUS ALTERNIFOLIUS sp. nov. § Eumallotus. 
Arbuscula vel arbor parva circiter 4 m alta, plus minusve 
glandulosa, novellis inflorescentisque stellato-puberulis ; foliis 
membranaceis, oblongo-ovatis vel ovatis, basi cordatis, tripli- 
nerviis, apice acuminatis; inflorescentiis S terminalibus, race- 
mosis, floribus numerosis, staminibus circiter 20 ; capsulis dense 
molliter echinatis. 
A shrub or small tree reaching a height of about 4 m. Branches 
terete, slender, glabrous, smooth, reddish or reddish-brown, the 
branchlets slightly puberulent. Leaves alternate, membrana- 
ceous, oblong-ovate or ovate, 8 to 15 cm long, 5 to 8.5 cm wide, 
the base rather broad, cordate, the basal lobes rounded, the sinus 
narrow, about 0.5 cm deep, the apex prominently and rather 
slenderly acuminate, the margins slightly subrepand-denticulate 
or nearly entire, the upper surface glabrous, somewhat shining, 
with usually two glands on either side of the midrid at the 
base, the lower surface slightly paler than the upper, with few, 
scattered glands, the midrib and nerves often slightly ciliate; 
basal pair of nerves reaching from one-third to one-half the 
length of the leaf, with usually two additional short, supplement- 
ary pairs of basal ones, the lateral nerves above the basal pair 
5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, somewhat ascending, anasto- 
mosing, the reticulations subparallel, lax; petioles 2.5 to 5.5 
cm long, usually puberulent. Flowers usually appearing with 
or just before the new leaves, the racemes terminal, erect, 
stellate-puberulent, the staminate ones 8 cm long or less. 
Flowers in fascicles of 10 or less, their pedicels 1 to 3 mm long, 
puberulent, the bracts none or very early deciduous. Calyx- 
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