322 ROBINSON. i 
apices lanceolate to ovate^ up to 2 mm long : calyx-tube about 3 mm long ; 
calyx-teeth 4, triangular, 1 mm long ; petals 4, valvate, linear-oblong, 7.5 
mm long, with a constant width of about 1.5 mm except in the apical 1 
mm, where they are rounded to a somewhat hooded apex, their inner 
surface very densely covered with dirty-grayish pubescence; filaments 4, 
3.0 mm long, except at the extreme base dilated and densely covered with 
grayish-yellow pubescence; anthers narrowly oblong, 2.5 mm long, the 
apex rounded, the margins of the connective pubescent on the dorsal 
surface; style 6 mm long, the basal half pubescent, the apical half nearly 
glabrous and 4-gTOOved; stigma capitate, 0.75 mm in diameter; ovary 
1-celled, with several small ovules on two parietal placentae; fruit ellip- 
soid or ellipsoid-ovoid, 15 mm long, 7 mm in diameter, apiculate and 
crowned by the persistent calyx, 1-celled, 1-seeded, glabrous. 
A tree 8 m high, the trunk 10 cm in diameter, the dried branchlets 
black, marked by the scars of fallen leaves, the vegetative parts glabrous 
except in the youngest stages : leaves opposite or subopposite, the petioles 
10 to 13 mm long, the somewhat coriaceous lamina bblanccolate or elliptic 
oblanceolate, 4.5 to 8 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, the base cuneate or acutely 
acuminate, the margins entire, revolute, the apex retuse and mucronate; 
lateral veins on each side of the costa 10 to 15. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas (Infanta), Mount Binuang, in mossy forest at 
840 m elevation, Bur. 8ci. 93G2 Robinson. Distinguished from all other species 
of the genus by the retuse leaf-apex, a character which it shares with species 
of other genera in the same localHy. 
EUPHORBIACEAE. 
CICCA Linn. 
Cicca disticha Linn. Mant. (1767) 124. 
Averrhoa acida Linn.,* a much older name than the above, was based directly 
upon Fl. 2eyl. 179, with no synonyms cited that were not also in the earlier 
publication, although some arc omitted. The "Flora Zeylanica," in its turn, was 
based on Hermann's collection of plants and drawings, nearly all from Ceylon. 
The type of AverrJioa acida must accordingly be determined from Hermann. 
His volumes have been studied with great care by Trimen, and the following notes 
bear on the present qxiestion. "179., Averrhoa acida, Sp. 428 * * * A. Caram- 
bola, L.,var. ? (drawing).^" "P,longifoUus, Jacq. * * * is the 'Nelli' of Herm. 
Mus. 55, and therefore Fl. Zeyl. n. 179 (and the Averrhoa acida of Linnaeus) ; 
but there is no specimen in Herb. Herm., and the drawing is by, no means 
characteristic.*" The identification of Averrhoa acida with Ciccd disticha is 
a very old one^ going at least as far back as Willdenow/ but Mueller did not 
consider it in his monograph of the Euphorhiaceae, The combination Phyllanthus 
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Sp. Pi. (1753) 428. , , . 
■Journ. Linn, Soc. Bot. 24 (1887) 142. 
*Handb. Fl.. Ceylon 4 (189S) 26. 
"Sp. PI. 4 (1805) 332. 
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