ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSTA, 11. 197 
b - 
on the upper surface little more conspicuous than the very numerous 
reticulations, beneath more prominent. 
Type collected at Bosoboso, Province of Rizal, Luzon, by Ahern's collector, 
For. Bur. 30t6, May 17, 1905. 
Very distinct by reason of its entire ovary and capsule, but in all other 
respects conforming to tliis genus. 
13. Cleistanthus quadrifldus sp. nov. 
Arbuscula; floribus axillaribus, faseiculatis, pedicellatis, breviter brac- 
teatis, pentameris; ovario sessili, dense, villoso, subgloboso, stylis 3, 
quadrifidis; foliis coriaceis, nitidis, ellipticis oblongis vel ovatis; venis 
utrinque 8-10. 
Flowers yellowish-white, fascicled in the axils of the leaves, subtended 
by short bracts at the base of the pedicels, which vary in length up to 
3.5 mm; calyx 3 mm long, divided for 2 mm into 5. lanceolate-ovate 
lobes, truncate or acute at the apex; petals oval, 0.6 mm long, 0.5 mm 
wide, their margins irregularly dentate: male flowers with a disk lining 
thtt base of the calyx and free for 0.1-0.2 mm; androgynophore 0.4 mm 
lonir, bearinf^ 5 stout filaments 0.7 mm long, the anthers lanceolate, 1.2 
mm long, 0.4 mm wide, cordate at the base; rudiment of the ovary 1.5 
mm long, lanceolate, comparatively long-rost'rate, 3-notched at the apex : 
female flowers witli a disk free for 0.7 mm, cupular, the free margin 
with numerous shallow teeth; ovary sessile, densely pale-villose, 1.2 mm 
in diameter; styles 3, in all 0.7 mm long, 2-cleft, the ami^ also 2-cleft: 
capsules unknown. 
A -small tree, glabrous throughout except upon the ovaries and the 
bracts, the bark of the ultimate branches grayish to yellowish, striate; 
leaves borne on annular- rugose petioles 3-8 mm long, the lamina entire, 
coriaceous, shining, brownish-green on both surfaces, elliptic oblong or 
nvate, 8-13 cm long, 3.5-7 cm wide, acute or very shortly acuminate 
at the base, at the apex somewhat al)ruptly contracted into a slender 
obtuse acumen 1.5-2 cm long, sometimes falcate, but probably as the 
result of mechanical injury; primary lateral veFus on each side of the 
midrib 8-10, the reticulations very niuuorous and conspicuous on both 
surfaces. 
Type collected at an elevation of 20 m at Port Banga, District of Zamboanga, 
Mindanao, by H. N. Whitford and W. I. IIulLhinson, For. Bur. .9^78, in early 
flower, Febrnary 28, 1908. 
CYCLOSTEMON niume. 
Cyclostemon grandifolius sp. nov. 
Arbuscula; fasciculis paucifloris, floribus mediocriter pedunculatis, 
sepalis 4, ovalibus, staminibus 15-30; noribus fcmineis ignotis; foliis 
oblongis vel ellipticis, raiius lanceolatis, 23-36 cm longis, mediocriter 
et angustc acuminatis, venis lateralibus utrinque 11-17. ' 
Flowers in axillary fascicles usually of 3 or 4, borne upon shortly and 
