404 MERRILL, 
-OSTODES MACROPHYLLA (Muell.-Arg.) Benth. ex Pax in Engl. Pflan- 
zenreich 47 (1911) 18. 
Tritaxis macrophylla Muell.-Arg. in Flora 47 (1864) 482. 
Trigonostemon ^nacrophyllus Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 34 (1865) 213, 
DC. Prodr. 15' (1866) 1106. 
Ostodes serrato-crenata Merr. in Philip. Joum. Sci. 4 (1910) Bot. 4 
283. 
Pax is perfectly correct in his recent reduction of Ostodes serrato- 
4irenata Merr, to O. macrophylla (Muell.-Arg.) Benth.,^^ a conclusion I 
had already reached from an examination of the abundant material now ■ 
in the Herbarium of the Bureau of Science. It is represented by the 
following material : 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, For, Bur, 7078, 11271 Klemme, For, Bur, 
15247 Bernardo: Province of Laguna, For, Bur, 22305 Mariano, Bur, Sci, 
10051, 10966 Ramos, For, Bur. 17637 Curran. SiBUYAN, Elmer 12S66, 
12480, April, May, 1910. 
It is also represented by a specimen from Sarawak, Borneo, Foxworthy 
141, so that its known range is now from the Malay Peninsula, through 
■northern Borneo to Sibuyan, central and northern Luzon. 
r 
PHYLLANTHUS Linnaeus. 
PHYLLANTHUS LUZONIENSIS sp. nov. % Cicca, Prosorus, 
Arbor parva, 6 ad 9 m alta, dioica, decidua, partibus junioribus 
.plus minusve ciliatis, vetustioribus glabris; foliis subellipticis 
vel oblongo-obovatis, rotundatis, usque ad 5 cm longis; floribus ^ 
4-meris, 5 fasciculatis, tenuiter pedicellatis, biseriatim 4-par- 
titis, disco annulari, disciformi; fructibus crustaceis, in valvis 
^4 dehiscentibus. 
A small, dioecious, deciduous tree 6 to 9 m high, in age quite 
glabrous, but the young branchlets, young leaves, and flowers 
more or less ciliate with weak, scattered, brownish hairs* 
Branches terete, grayish, the branchlets lenticellate, slender, 
sometimes reddish-brown. Leaves when young, at time of an- 
i;hesis, membranaceous, in age becoming quite glabrous, scattered, 
Bubcoriaceous, subelliptic to oblong-obovate or obovate, usually 
rounded at the apex or obtuse, the base acute, 2.5 to 5 cm long, 
1 to 2.5 cm wide, shining, the lower surface a little paler than 
the upper one; nerves slender, 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, 
anastomosing, the reticulations not prominent; petioles slender, 
2 to 4 mm long; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, deciduous, 
about 1.5 mm long. Male flowers fascicled, appearing with the 
leaves, their pedicels slender, 5 to 8 mm long, ciliate. Perianth- 
lobes 4, in two pairs, 1.5 to 1.8 mm long, slightly ciliate, two 
broadly ovate to obovate, rounded, about 1.5 mm wide, the other 
two oblong, about 0.8 mm wide. Disk annular, disciform, about 
" Pflanzenreich 52 (1912) 286. 
