NOTES ON PHILIPPINE EUPHORBIACEAE. 
403 . 
racemose, terminal, up to 20 cm in length. Flowers unknown, 
the bracteoles densely pubescent, linear, about 5 mm long. 
Capsules depressed, of three cocci, about 1 cm wide, waxy- 
glandular with yellowish dots, and covered with numerous, scat- 
tered, spreading, ciliate, rather soft processes 2 to 3 mm in 
length. 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Talisayan, Q. F. Quadras. 
The type is from the herbarium of the Ateneo de Manila, communicated 
to me by Father Francisco Sanchez, to -whom this most distinct species is 
dedicated. 
A strongly marked species, readily recognizable by its peltate, oblong- 
ovate to narrowly ovate, long and slenderly caudate-acuminate, repand- 
dentate leaves. 
' OSTODES Blume. 
OSTODES ANGUSTIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber circiter 1 m altus; foliis plus minusve con- 
fertis, alternis, sessilibus vel subsessilibus, lineari-lanceolatis, 
acuminatis, basi cordatis, usque ad 27 cm longis, 1 ad 1.5 cm 
latis ; peduneulis tenuibus, circiter 8 cm longis, ut videtur 
paucifloris. 
A glabrous shrub or undershrub about 1 m high. Branches 
terete, slender, grayish. Leaves somewhat crowded toward 
the apices of the branchlets, sessile or subsessile, firmly char- 
taceous or subcoriaceous, linear-lanceolate, 18 to 27 cm long, 1 
to 1.5 cm wide, gradually narrowed into the slender acumen, 
base abruptly cordate, often somewhat surrounding but not 
clasping the stem, shining when dry; nerves 0.8 to 1 cm apart, 
spreading, anastomosing, rather distinct beneath but slender, 
the reticulations lax. Peduncles axillary, slender, about 8 cm 
long, apparently few-flowered. Pedicels about 1.5 cm long, 
slightly thickened upward, and somewhat sulcate or angled at 
the apex. Sepals persistent, oblong-ovate, acute or obtuse. 
Ovary glabrous, 3-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; styles 3, cleft nearly to 
the base. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 93^3 Whit- 
ford & Hutchinson, January 14, 1908, in dipterocarp forests, altitude 
about 30 m. 
This species has been described from imperfect material, no flowers 
having been seen, and only one immature fruit; it belongs, with very 
little doubt, to the genus Ostodes, and is well characterized by its sessile, 
very long and narrow leaves which are abruptly cordate at the rather broad 
base. 
