NOTES ON PHILIPPINE EUPHORBIACEAE, 405 
0.8 mm in diameter. Stamens 4, the filaments 1.5 mm long, 
free; anthers 0.8 mm long, opening by vertical slits. Female 
flowers not seen, apparently solitary, their pedicels, in fruit, up 
to 1.5 cm long, the persistent calyx of 4, reflexed, broadly ovate, 
2 mm long sepals, the disk annular, disciform, about 1.3 mm in 
diameter. Fruit globose, glabrous, crustaceous, about 8 mm in 
diameter, splitting into 4 valves, containing 3 or 4 seeds. Seeds 
4 mm long, their outer surface convex, the inner two plane, 
usually of a brilliant blue color. 
Luzon, Province of Pampanga, Mount Arayat, For. Bur. 17698 Curran 
(type), March, 1910, on dry slopes, altitude about 50 m, male flowers: 
Province of Nueva Ecija, For, Bur, 8J^35 CurraUy with very old fruits, 
For, Bur. 1^320 Saraca, sterile: Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, on 
dry slopes, altitude 10 to 200 m, For, Bur, 634^8, 6891 Curran, sterile. 
CORREGIDOR, For. Bur. 13225 Curran, September, 1911, with mature fruits. 
This species apparently belongs in the subsection Prosorus of the sec- 
tion Cicca, following Mueller's classification. I am of the opinion, how- 
ever, that the subsection Eucicca should be maintained as a distinct genus, 
Cicca, as originally proposed by Linnaeus, and as recently considered by 
Doctor Robinson. The present species very strongly resembles Fluggea 
virosa Baill., in its vegetative characters and in its inflorescence, espe- 
cially those specimens collected at time of anthesis. Several sterile speci- 
mens were collected by Mr. Curran, with the hope that the species could 
be determined from such material, as the species is abundant locally on dry 
hills, and is one of the dominant if not the dominant species over considerable 
areas in the Provinces of Bataan, Pampanga, and Nueva Ecija. Although 
the male flowers have been known for some time, our material did not 
show any of the details of the female flowers until it was recently collected 
on Corregidor Island by Mr. Curran. 
PHYLLANTHUS ROBINSONU sp, nov. § E mhlicastrum? 
Frutex circiter 2 m altus, glaber; foliis distichis, imbricatis, 
coriaceis, nitidis, 4 ad 7 mm longis, anguste obovatis, leviter 
obliquis, acutis, nervis obsoletis; floribus 9 solitariis, 5-meris, 
sessilibus, 2.5 ad 3 mm longis, disco angusto, ovario anguste 
ovoideo, stylis brevissime 3-lobatis. 
A shrub about 2 m high, glabrous, the branches slender, terete, 
rather stiff, grayish or brownish, the branchlets 4 to 6 cm 
long, slender, distinctly angled, solitary, in pairs, or somewhat 
fascicled at the nodes. Leaves numerous, small, shining, dis- 
tichous, imbricating, narrowly oblong-obovate, somewhat oblique, 
4 to 7 mm long, 2 to 3 mm wide, acute, subsessile, the midrib 
very obscure, the lateral nerves obsolete; stipules about 1 mm 
long, deciduous. Female flowers solitary, sessile, axillary, in a 
single row on the lower side of the branchlets, the bracteoles 
lanceolate, acuminate, brown, 1.5 mm long. Perianth 2 to 2.5 
mm long, the lobes 5, unequal, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 1.5 
