ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, III. 327 
long, divided for about three-foiirths to four-fifths the distance to tlie base 
into 5, narrowly lanceolate, densely ferruginous-pilose lobes; petals oval, 
1.5 mm long, pilose-ciliate ; disk forming 5 semicircular lobes, rounded 
at the apex, 1.5 mm in diameter, densely pilose; capsule in cro?s-section 
triangular, but the 3 lobes broadly rounded, 9 mm long, 12 mm along the 
sides of the triangle, more or less densely pilose in the sinuses and at the 
base and apex, elsewhere with scattered hairs or glabresccnt ; styles united 
for about 0.5 mm, the rest fallen; seeds not developed. 
Presumably a tree, the branches and branchlets slender, the bark pur- 
plish, densely pubescent: petioles 1 to 3 mm long; lamina chartaceous, 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 11 cm long, 22 to 40 mm wide, the ba?e 
emarginate, the margins entire or very obscurely sinuate, the apex form- 
ing a blunt acumen 5 to 12 mm long, upper surface a rather dull bluish- 
green, glabrous or with scattered hairs on the eosta, under surface brown- 
ish, densely pubescent on the eosta near its base, sparingly pubescent or 
glabrous on the middle part of the eosta and the principal veins; pairs 
of veins 8 or 9, strongly arched, the secondary veins lax, conspicuous on 
the under surface, but on the upper no more evident than the. finer reticu- 
lations, which are hardly visible beneath. 
Basilan, For. Bur. 19511 Ahncigro, Rather distinct amongst Philippine species, 
approaching closest to C, vidaHi and G. everettii, distinguislied from the former 
by the more evident venation, less acuminate leaves, and pubescence, from the 
latter by shorter petioles, different venation, more pubescent branches, less 
pubescent capsules, and the nature of the inflorescence. It is much nnore widely 
separated from G. gracilis, than is G. vidalii. 
Cleistanthus vidalii C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1008) Bot. 193. 
Gleistanthus hlancoi Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 234, non Rolfe in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 315. 
This approaches rather closely to G. gracilis Hook, f., as represented by Ruileg 
14900 from Perlis, Malay Peninsula. The leaves of G. c^daUt are larger and 
;iua iV oblong-lanJeolate/but some of each species are identical - B^e - 
nearly'in size,\ut in these the base of the Philippine spec.es ^^^.o^^^^^ * J^ 
terminal acumen is slightly mure P-l<>-«-^ ^-^^.f ^/^^^^ "p,^^^ 
both the venation is inconspicuous, a little more evident in the Philippme plants, 
where the number of veins is greater. 
GLOCHIDION Forst. 
The oldest nan.e for this, after 1753 as a separate g^-^'J^;^ ^^^^j^, 
Agyneia Linn. Linnaeus published ^ two speeds, --'llfto'the ^ 
ler >» and suhsequent authors to be varieties of one, referable to the sec 
•Mant. (1771) 161. »DC. Prodr. 15 "(1862) 239, 307. 
