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, ALABASTUA PHILIPFINENSIA^ II. 195 
capsule, divided for 2.5 mm into 5 lanceolate obtuse lobes; petals 5, 
oblong, 1 mm long, 0.4 mm wide, rounded or denticulate at the apex, 
basal claw very broad or more often wanting; free portion of di§k 0.8 
mm long, divided into 5 or possibly sometimes more ovate lobes, which 
are truncate at the apex, with a few somewhat obscure teeth; pedicel of 
tlie capsule 3.5 mm long, capsule depressed-globose, 7-8 mm long, 9 
mm wide, yellowish-red, brown when dried, glabrous except sometimes 
At the base and in the sinuses of the 3 lobes, 3-celled, each cell so far 
as seen containing a single seed; seeds 4.5 mm long, te&ta brown, radicle 
1.5 mm long, each cotyledon orbicular-ovate, 3.5 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, 
rounded at the apex, truncate at the base. 
. A bush 2-3 m liigh, bark of the ultimate brandies gray, glabrous 
except the brown-tomentose youngest shoots, terete or at the extreme 
apex strongly angled; leaves borne on petioles 6-10 mm long, the 
lamina subcoriacoous, entire, ovate or rarely elliptic-oblong, 7.5-14 cm 
long, 4-6.7 cm wide, at the apex rather gradually contracted into a 
short blunt acumen, acute at the base; veins on each side of the midrib 
10-12, straiglit, thin, dividing when two-thirds of the way to tlie margin, 
two distinct submarginal veins present, with obscure veins outside, veins 
of all ordefs, thoiigli thin, distinct upon both surfaces, but especially 
upon the under. 
Type collected at Camiguin Island, Babuyanes, by Eugenio Fenix, Bur. 8ci, 
^051, June 27, li>07. 
11. Cleistanthus decipiens sp. dov. 
Floribus masculinis ignotis; floribus femineis subsessilibus, peiitameris, 
petalis triangulari-oblanceolatis, ovario subgloboso, villoso; capsulis pedi- 
cellatis, viridibus, sparse villosis; foliis ellipticis vel rarius ovalibus, 
chartaceis, basi dccurrentibus, apice breviter obtuseque aeuminatis; venis 
utrinque 10-12, eurvatis. 
Male flowers unknown: female flowers subsessile, few in a fascicle, 
bracted at the base; the bracts few, pubescent; calyx 3.5 mm long, in 
fruit closely inclosing the base of the pedicel of the capsule, its 5 lobes 
ianceolnte, acute, about 2 mm long; petals 5, triangular-oblancoolate, 
inserted on the margin of the tube of the calyx, 1 mm long, 0.3 mm 
wide, cuspidate at the apox, grailually narrowed from the apical fifth 
to the base; disk tliin, inconspicuous, free for about 0.3-0.4 mm, its 
upper jnargin forming shallow lobes or nearly truncat-e; ovary densely 
villose, 0.8 mm long, 1 nini wide; styles 3, in all 0,8 mm long, bifid 
for the apical 0.2 mm; capsules borne on villose pedicels 4 mm long, 
gi'een when fresh, brownish-black when dry, globose-ovoid, triangular 
in section, 8.5-9 mm long, 9.5-10 mm in diameter, with scattered or 
dense yellowish-brown villose pubescence, 3-lobed, 3-celled, each cell 
containing a single seed 6 mm long, 2.5 mm in diameter, shortly 2-lobcd 
at the base, its testa brown; no embryos found. 
