400 
MERRILL. 
from elongate, rugose tubercles, solitary or several on each 
tubercle. Male flowers numerous, yellow, their pedicels pubes- 
cent, about 5 mm long, the subtending bracteoles ovate, obtuse 
or acute, about 1.5 mm long, stellate-pubescent. Sepals usually 
3, reflexed, elliptic-ovate, acute, about 3.5 mm long. Stamens 
about 30, 2 to 2.5 mm long, the connectives broad, truncate, the 
anther-cells about 0.5 mm long. Fruit of two or three cocci, 
about 1 cm wide, depressed-globose, 3-sulcate, the individual cocci 
subglobose, externally prominently waxy-glandular with small 
yellow glands, and with scattered, short, spine-like processes 2 
mm long or less. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, Bur. Sci. 13909 Ramos 
(type), January, 1912, For. Bur. 17794- Curran, January, 1912. On hill- 
sides, limestone region, altitude about 80 meters. 
A species well characterized by its cauline inflorescence, but frequently 
also with axillary racemes on the same specimen, its penninerved, glabrous, 
non-glandular leaves, etc. It somewhat resembles in vegetative characters 
Mallotus camiguinensis Merr., but is not closely allied to that species. 
MALLOTUS PANICULATUS (Lam.) Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 34 (1865) 
189, DC. Prodr. 15’ (1866) 965. 
Croton paniculatus Lam. Encycl. 2 (1786) 207. 
Mallotus cochinchinensis Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 635; Hook. f. FI. 
Brit. Ind. 5 (1887) 430. 
Croton appendiculatus Elm. Leaf!. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 312. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 9215, May, 1907, in fruit, 
cotype of Croton appendiculatus Elm.: Province of Laguna, San Antonio, 
Bur. Sci. 10990 Ramos, August, 1910, with staminate flowers. Negros, 
Faraon, For. Bur. 17465 Curran, October, 1909, with pistillate flowers. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Elmer 11926, October, 1909, with staminate 
flowers and fruits. 
This species has previously been reported from the Philippines by 
F.-Villar”, but the record was not before verifled. The specimen re- 
ported by me as Mallotus paniculatus “ is M. playfairii Hemsl. Croton 
appendiculatus Elm., was described from fruiting specimens only, and has 
been reduced to Mallotus cochinchinensis Lour. (=M. paniculatus Muell.- 
Arg.) by J. J. Smith,” and by Hallier f.” There is no doubt as to the 
correctness of the reduction, for the Philippine specimens agree both with 
the descriptions of Mallotus paniculatus, and with extra-Philippine material 
representing the species in the Herbarium of the Bureau of Science: 
India, Wallich 7818, Hongkong, Curran, Singapore, Ridley, Penang, Ridley, 
and Borneo, Sarawak, Foxworthy 87, 146. 
“Novis. App. (1880) 195. 
“For. Bur. Bull. (Philip.) 1 (1903) 31. 
” Koord. & Val. Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java 12 (1910) 413. 
“ Meded. ’s Rijks Herb. 1910 (1911) 7. 
