ALAliASTKA PHILIPPINENSIA, II. 193 
cm long, 3^.5 cm wide, rounded or acute at the base, at the apex 
somewhat abruptly contracted into a slender obtuse acumen usually about 
1.5 cm long, glabrous on both surfaces, stipules as in the bracts; 7 or 8 
pairs of primary lateral veins on each side of the midrib, not only these 
but the secondary and tertiary venation conspicuous on the under surface, 
and fairly evident on the upper. 
Type collected at an elevation of 150 m at Sax Riveiv Distiict of Zaniboanj^a, 
Mindanao, by R. S. Williams, no. 21S1', with flowers of both sexes, March 4, 
1905; also represented by WifJianis 2186, from the same locality, in fruit. 
February 28, 1905. 
7. Cleistanthus laevis Uook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 5 (1887) 277. 
From this species as represented in this herbarium by two specimens from the 
type locality, Singapore, it is at present impossible to separate Bur. S'ci. 2681 
liaiitos, Bosoboso, Province of Rizal, Luzon, in fruit, ^Tay, 1907. 
Cleistakthus blancoi Roife in Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 315. 
Gluta orgyalis Naves in Fl. Filip. ed. 3 pi 333: non Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2. 
(1845) 451. 
Clt'istanilius patulus Naves in Fl. Filip. ed. 3. (1877) pi 3o3; non Muell.-Arg. 
in DC. Prodr. 15- (1862) 505. 
G. ferrugineus F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 187: non Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 
15- (1862) 507. 
This species was based upon a plate to which no plant so far represented 
by recent collections suffieiently correstwnds to w^arrant definite identification. 
The plate is in all probability inexact, especially in figuring the fruiting 
calyces as at the extremity of a pedicel reaching 1 cm in length. Much the 
most probable identification would be witli the plant placed above in C. lacvh. 
If this should prove to be the case, Rolfe's name being the older must replace 
Hooker's, in the light of present evidence not only for the Philippine but also for 
the ilalay plant. Such a step is entirely unwarranted at present. In one 
notable particular Ramos' specimen differs from the plate and agrees with 
O. laevis. The veins frequently run half the length of the leaf, becoming? nearly 
parallel with the midrib, or even arching somewhat inwards as tlie leaf bec<imcs 
narrower. There are suggestions of fhis on two of the leaves of the plate, bnt 
nothing equal to that shown either upon Ramos' specimen or those from 
Singapore. 
8. Cleistanthus vidalii nom. nov. 
G. blancoi Vidal Revis. PI. Vase. Fil. (1S86) 234; non Kolfe in Jour. Linn. 
Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 315. 
0. 2>oUidus F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 187; non Muell.-Arg. iu DC. Prodr. 15- 
(1862) 508. 
Luzon, Province of Tarlac, iloriiuies, VUhl 359 (type) ; Ijs. Paz, Merrill 2883, 
July, J903. 
The latter specimen answers VidaPs description and his type so far as it 
can be determined from a fragment, and is undoubtedly his species. The capsules 
are old, and glabrous except sometimes at the base, coming within the limits of 
the original description "junior pilosa dein glabra." Otherwi.^e the correspondence 
is even more exact. 
The citation of G. paUUhts as a synonym is entirely in deference to Vidal, 
in' whose herbarium Villar says that he saw it. The writer's strong i>ersonal 
pieference would have been to credit it to C. laevis Hooker, hut there is no reason 
to suppose that any idi-ntification of it can ever be more than conjecture. 
