41 G MERRILL. 
beneath; petioles stout, about 5 mm long. Flowers unknown. Fruit 
axillary, solitary, pedicelled, the pedicels 5 to 7 mm long, subtended at 
the base by several small, pale bracts, the fruits ovoid, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 
obtuse, gray or brownish, with numerous somewhat appressed short hairs, 
the pericarp coriaceous, 3-celled, each cell with two ovules. 
Camiguin, Bur. Sci. 4033 Feniw, June 22, 1907, along the seashore, 
A species weU characterized by its 2-celIed ovary and very strongly inequilat- 
eral, falcate, obtuse leaves. The genus is well developed in the Philippines, with 
6 or 7 species, but no representative is known from Formosa or southern China. 
ANTIDESMA Linn. 
F 
A. lobbianum Muell. Arg. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3666 Fenix. Camiqxjin, 3996 Feniw. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 
A. cumingii Muell. Arg. 
Camiguin, ^07.9 F6nix. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. A. memhranae folium Elm., 
recently described, is quite the same. 
CLEISTANTHUS Hook. 
C. o vat us C. B. Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 194. 
Camiguin, 4051 Fenix, (type). 
Known only from this one collection. This genus has about 13 representatives 
in the Philippines, but none are known from southern China or Formosa, 
CLAOXYLON Juss. 
C. rubescens Miq., var. meyenianum Muell. Arg, 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3639 F4nix. 
The species widely distributed in the Malayan region, the variety known only 
from the Philippines where it is common and widely distributed. 
M ALLOT US Lour. 
M. leucocalyx Muell. Arg. 
Camiguin, ^0^7 F4nix. 
Known only from the Philippines, the above specimen agreeing in all essential 
characters with typical material from Mindanao. 
M. moluccanus ^Muell. Arg. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 37J^ F4nix. N. v,, Ajem, 
Very common and widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia to For- 
mosa and Malaya. 
M. philippinensis (Lam.) Muell. Arg. 
Camiguin, Jtll2 F^niw. 
Very common and widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia to For- 
mosa, Malaya, northern Australia and eastern Polynesia. 
. playfairii Henisl. 
Camiguin, ^024 FSnix. 
Luzon; Formosa and northern Borneo. 
