PLANTS FROM BATANES AND BABUYANJ^S ISLANDS. 415 
A small tree G to 7 m high, glabrous throughout. Branches gray, 
terete, the branchlets reddish- brown, slender, the tips more or less angled. 
Leaves oblong-ovate, submembranous, 10 to 16 cm long, 5 to 6 mm . 
"wide, the base rather broad, inequilateral, rounded, narrowed upwards, 
the apex rather long and slenderly acuminate, shining, the lower surface 
slightly paler than the upper; nerves G or 7 on each side of the midrib, 
curved-ascending, obscurely anastomosing, rather distinct beneath ; 
petioles 4 mm long or less. Flowers axillary, fascicled, pedicellate. 
Sepals 5, imbricate, ovate, 1.5 mm long. Stamens 5, the anthers erect, 
apiculate, 1.2 mm long, connate. Pistillate flowers G-merous. Calyx 
segments 6, ovate, slightly acuminate, glabrous.' Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 
depressed at the apex, the stylar column 6-fid, obscurely lobulate, 0.4 
mm long, wider than long and inserted in the depressed apex of the 
ovary. Fruit yellowish, glabrous, depressed- globose, about 5 mm in 
diameter, with 10, very obscure, rounded ridges. 
Batax, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bnr. Sci. 3696 F4nix, June 1, 1907. N. v., 
Annam. 
Apparently most closely allied to Glochidion arnottianum Muell. Arg., of 
southern China and Hongkong, but with quite different vegetative characters, 
FLUGGEA Willd. 
F. virosa (Roxb.) BaiU. {F. ohovata Wall.) 
Camiguin, 401 i F4nix. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia, Africa, Malaya, and 
Australia. 
BREYNIA Forst. 
B. cernua Muell. Arg. 
Camigutn, 3991 F4nix. Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, $118 F4nix. N. v., 
Antimantinid. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; Malaya. 
CYCLOSTEMON Blume. 
Cyclostemon falcatus sp. nov. § Eucyclostemon f 
Arbor parva, fi-uctibus exceptis glabra; ramis ramulisque griseis, 
teretibus; foliis coriaceis, nitidis, oblongis vel oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 
10 cm longis, valde inaequilateralibus, falcatis, basi acutis, apice obtusis 
vel rotundatis, margine integris; floribus femineis axillaribus, solitariis, 
pediceUatis; fructibus 1 ad 1.5 cm longis, ovoideis, pubescentibus, 3-locu- 
laribus, exocarpio coriaceo. 
A small tree or shrub 3 to 5 m high, glabrous except the fruits. 
Branches and branchlets pale-gray, terete. Leaves alternate, oblong or 
oblong-ovate, 6 to 10 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, coriaceous, shining, 
entire, very strongly inequilateral, falcate, the apex obtuse or rounded, 
the base inequilateral, acute; nerves 7 or 8 on each side of the midrib, 
distant, irregular, anastomosing, scarcely more distinct than are the 
secondary ones and reticulations, the reticulations obscure above, distinct 
