200 ROBINSON. 
perianth only about two-thirds that of the males, hut proportionally 
broader; stamens and disk wanting; ovary sessile or snbsessile, depressed- 
globose, 1 mm long, 2 mm in diameter, at the apex 6-grooved, m the 
flowers seen apparently without cells: capsules greenish, 1 cm long, 1.3- 
1.5 cm in diameter, 5- or more frequently G-lobed, the lobes usually 
2-lobed, 5- or 6-celled, each cell with two red collateral seeds 3.5 mm 
long. 
A glabrous tree or shrub 4-7.5 m high, with stems attainmg 17.5 cm m 
diameter, wood reddish, bark of medium-sized branches grayish, striate 
and scaly, that of the 3-ounger branches striate and lenticellate ; leaves 
alternate, borne on petioles 2-6 mm long, the lamina yellowish-green or 
])luis]i-gi-een, subcoriaceous, entire, oblong, elliptic or oval, 5-9 cm long, 
2-4.2 cm wide, shortly and usually acutely acuminate at the apex, at 
the base inequilateral and obliquely contracted into the shortly margined 
petiole; pairs of lateral veins 7-11. 
Type cuUecteil at Baguio, Province of Benguet, Luzon, by R. S. Williams, 
no. {)o,i, in flower and fruit, Septcmbor 10, 1004. Also represented by For. Bur. 
4921 Ourran, Bagnio, Merrill m-'h Tauai to Baguio, and ^yilUams 1356, Mount 
Santo Tomas. all" in Benguet, and probably by an unnumbered sbeet collected by 
H. N, Whitford at Laniao Biver, Province of Bataan. The last haa staminate and 
immature pi.stillate ilowers only, and the ovaries seem longer than wide. 
This species is closely allied to G, s-uhfalcatum Elmer, but apparently must 
be separated on account of the different shape of the capsules. Typical forms 
of the two species are (luifo distinct vegetatively, but other forms run rather 
eloselv together. 
PHYLLANTHUS Linn. 
Phyllanthus acuminatissimus sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra; floribus in fascicnlis basi bracteatis dispositis; mas- 
culinis periantho 5-lobato, staminibus 5, disco 5-partito, qnacpe parte 
bilobata intra stamina inserta, ovario rudimentario ; capsnlis disco snbin- 
tegro basi circumdatis, trilobatis, trilocularibiis, seminibus 2; foliis 
elliptieis, basi at^Mitis, apice acuminatissimis, subtus glaucis. 
Flowers borne in axillary fascicles upon slender peduncles arising 
from small bracts: the male flowers with peduncles 2.5-4 mm long; 
calyx with 5 lobes, free nearly to the base, imbricate, orbicular, ovate, 
or obovate, broadly rounded at the apex, the base very slightly thickened ; 
stamens 5, their filaments strongly grooved, 1.7 mm long, the anthers 
dorsiflxed, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, nearly orbicular, 0.8 mm 
in diameter, cordate at the base; disk fleshy, separated by .the stamens 
into 5 2-lobiMl portions 0.7 mm long; rudiment of the ovary very small, 
prolonged into 2 style-like arms, lanceolate in outline and blunt at the 
apex: capsules on peduncles 6-7 nun long; calyx as in the male flowers; 
disk annular, shallow, fleshy, 1 min in diameter; capsules globose, 3-3.5 
mm in diameter, slightly :i-lobed, 3-celled, each cell containing 2 seeds, 
one usually better developed than tbe other, in shape similar to the 
