2g2 The Philippine Journal of Science 1916 



of Glochidion breynioides C. B. Rob. The species is widely distributed in 

 the Philippines and is also found in Borneo. 



GLOCHIDION MOLLE Blume Bijdr. (1825) 586. 



Amboina, Hitoe lama, Rel Robins. 1711, November 5, 1913, along road- 

 sides, altitude about 50 meters. 



Java to southern Mindanao and Celebes. 



GLOCHIDION GLABRUM J. J. Sra. in Lorenz Nova Guinea 8 (1910) 224, 

 t. 53. 

 Amboina, Soja road, Rel. Robins. 1713, on hillsides, altitude about 50 

 meters. 



The specimen is in fruit, and is almost certainly referable to this recently 

 described species. 



SAUROPUS Blume 



SAUROPUS ALBICANS (Linn.) Merr. in For. Bur. (Philip.) Bull. 1 (1903) 

 128. 

 Cluytia androgyna Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 128. 

 Sauropus albicans Blume Bijdr. (1825) 596. 

 Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1701, July 22, 1913, in thickets and along the river 

 back of the town of Amboina, locally known as katok. 



India to southern China to Java, Amboina, and the Philippines. 



BREYNIA Forster 



BREYNIA PUBESCENS sp. nov. 



Frutex circiter 1 m altus, ramulis subtus foliis calycibusque 

 uniformiter subdense tomentosis ; foliis submembranaceis, in sic- 

 citate nigris, usque ad 4.5 cm longis, ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, 

 basi acutis ad rotundatis, apice acutis, minutissime apiculatis, 

 nervis utrinque 5 vel 6; calycis valde accrescentibus, subcupu- 

 laris, obscure lobatis, circiter 6 mm diametro. 



A shrub about 1 m high, the branches and branchlets terete, 

 the former pale-brownish, glabrous, the latter slender, nearly 

 black when dry, uniformly and rather densely villous. Leaves 

 ovate to oblong-ovate, submembranaceous, 2.5 to 4.5 cm long, 

 2 to 3 cm wide, the upper surface nearly glabrous and black 

 when dry, the lower much paler, uniformly villous with some- 

 what grayish, short, somewhat crisped hairs, the base acute to 

 rounded, the apex acute and minutely apiculate; lateral nerves 

 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, slender; petioles pubescent, 

 about 2 mm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, very shortly pedi- 

 celled. Fruits green, subglobose, glabrous, black when dry, 

 about 5 mm in diameter, almost surrounded by the cup-shaped, 

 accrescent, obscurely lobed, somewhat pubescent calyx, which is 

 about 6 mm in diameter, black when dry, red when fresh. 



Amboina, Batoe gad j ah, Rel. Robins. 169 U, August 5, 1913, on open hill- 

 sides, altitude 50 to 200 meters. 



