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is well ctiaracterized by its long panicles (20 to 30 cm). The variety above 
described appears to be qnite distinct from Javan material in our herbarium 
that apparently well represents Bentham's species, and comparison with type 
■ material may warrant giving the present form specific rank. The wood is said 
to be very hard. 
EUPHORBIACE^. 
PHYLLANTHUS Linn. 
P. niruri Linn. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3722 F^nicc. 
Common throughout the Philippines; widely distributed in the tropics of the 
World. 
P. reticulatus Poir. 
Camiguix, 39611 Fenix. 
Abundant throughout the Philippines; tropical Asia, Africa, Malaya, and 
northern Australia. 
GLOCHIDION Forst. 
Glochidion camlguinense sp. nov. § Hemigloehidion. 
Arbor parva, 5 ad 6 m alta^ glabra; foliis altemis, oblongo-ovatis vel 
elHptico-ovatis, pallidis, chartaceis^ breviter acuminatis^ leviter falcatis^ 
usque ad 7 cm longis, nervis utrinque 9; floribus masculinis G-meris, 
circiter 2 mm longis; antberis 3, erectis, connatis; floribus -femineis 
6-meris; ovario glabro^ 5-loculare." 
A small tree 5 to 6 m high^ glabrous throughout. Branches terete/ 
gnayishj lenticellate, the branchlets brownish, somewhat angular. Leaves 
alternate, oblong-ovate to elliptical-ovate, pale^ chartaccous, 5 to 7 cm 
long^ 3 to 3 em wide, somewhat falcate^ the base rounded, inequilateral, 
the apex short-acuminate; nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib; 
petioles 2 to 3 mm long. Flowers axillary, fascicled, short-pedicelled, 
few in each axil. Staminate flowers : sepals G^ the outer ones 2 mm long, 
the inner slightly smaller; anthers S, erect, connate, 1 mm long. Pis- 
tillate flowers similar in size to the staminate ones, the sepals 6. Ovary 
ovoid, glabrous, 5-celled, each cell 2-ovuled; style as thick as the ovary 
_ and not differentiated from it, depressed at the apex. Fruit depressed- 
globose, white, according to the collector, glabrous, 5-ridged, about 1 
cm in diameter; seeds red when fresh. 
CAMiGxnN, Bur, Sci. JflOS Fdnice, June 21, 1907. I am also disposed to refer 
here a specimen from the same island, Fenix 4026, with less pale leaves, and the 
style not so thick as the ovary. 
Glochidion fenicis sp. nov. § Euglochidion. 
Arbor parva, 6 ad 7 m alta, glabra; foliis submembranaceis, oblongo- 
ovatis, usque ad 16 cm longis, longe temuiter acuminatis, basi inaequi- 
later rotundatis, nitidis, nervis utrinque 6 vel 7; floribus axillaribus, 
fasciculatis, circiter 1.5 mm longis; calycis segmentis 5; staminibus 5, 
antheris erectis connatis; fructibus glabris, depresso-globosis, circiter 5 
mm diam. 
