75 



4. P. reticulatus Poir.j Muell. Arg. 1. c. 344. 



(6702 Elmer) November; (2715 Borden) February. In thickets below 100 m. 

 Tropical Asia and Malaya. 



5. P. stipularis Merrill sp. nov. 



A small shrub or undershrub 1 to 2 m. high. Branches brown, more or less 

 furfuraceous ferruginous pubescent. Leaves alternate, oblong ovate, 4 to 9 cm. 

 long, 1 to 2.5 cm. wide, narrowed above to the sharply acute or slightly 

 acuminate apex, the base inequilateral, rather abruptly acute, glabrous and dark 

 above when dry. white or pale beneath and very slightly furfuraceous pubescent, 

 membranous; nerves 5 to (i on eaeli side of the midrib, distant, indistinct, the 

 reticulations obsolete or nearly so; petioles 2 to 3 mm. long, somewhat fur- 

 furaceous; stipules linear, persistent, slightly furfuraceous, 5 to 8 mm. long. 

 Male flowers fascicled, red, 5 to (i or more in each axil, the pedicels slender, 5 mm. 

 long or less. Calyx glabrous the sepals 4, free, ovate lanceolate, acute or blunt, 

 2.5 to 3 mm. long, about 1.5 mm. wide, the margins slightly irregularly crenate. 

 Disk scales free, thick, fleshy, truncate, often nearly 1 mm. long. Stamens 4, the 

 filaments united, very short or the anthers sessile, the anther cells 4, horizontal, 

 their tips contiguous but not confluent. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female flowers 

 solitary in the upper axils, long pedicelled. Sepals ti. imbricate, in 2 series, 

 ovate lanceolate, acute, 2 to 2. ."5 mm. long, 1 to 1.3 mm. wide. Disk scales similar 

 to the males. Ovary subglobose. about 1 mm. in diameter, (i ridged, 3 celled, each 

 cell 2 ovuled; styles 0, stout, about 0.3 mm. long, bifid or cleft at the apex. Fruit 

 red, glabrous, subglobose, dehiscent, about 1.5 cm. in diameter, dry, the sepals 

 persistent, somewhat accrescent. 



(282, 1102 Whitford) May, February; (2841 Meyer) March; (2087 Borden) 

 November; (Copeland) January; (0804 Elmer) November. On exposed ridges 

 in the mossy forest above 1,100 m. 



4. GLOCHIDION Foist. 



1. G. album (Blanco) Boerl. Phyllanlhus alius Blanco; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 300. 

 31G2, 3797, 3873 Merrill) January, October, August; (1705 Borden) August; 



(127 Barnes) January; (33 Whitford) April; (0603 Elmer) November; (2224, 

 2818 Meyer) December, March. In forests 100 to 500 M. Celebes. 



2. G. littorale Blume. Phyllanthua litioralis Muell. Arg. 1. c. 280. 



(1270 Whitford) May. On bluffs at the seashore. Malaya to British India. 



3. G. Ilanosi Muell. Arg. I'hytlanthus llanosi Muell. Arg. 1. c. 308. 



(2289 Meyer) December; (0800 Elmer) November; (1774 Borden) August; 

 (3131 Merrill) October. In open forests 100 to 250 in. Endemic. T., Bunitan, 

 Tali cud. 



4. G. sp. 



(1172, 1327 Whitford) March. May. On exposed ridges in the mossy forest 

 above 1,000 m. 



5. G. sp. 



(0106 Leiberg) July: I 1427 Ahern's collector) July. In thickets below 50 m. 



0. G. sp. 



(2716 Borden ) February. In thickets near the seashore. 



5. BREYNIA Forst. 



1. B. cernua Muell. Arg. 1. c. 439. 



(391 Whitford) June; (1357, 1000 Borden) July, August; (534 Topping) May. 

 In thickets and forests from near the sea level to 700 m. Malaya. T., Matang 

 olang. 



