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3. A. ghaesembilla Gaertn. ; Muell. Arg. I. c. 251. 



(1783, 2333 Borden) August, December; ( 2245 Meyer) December. In thickets 

 below 7-") in., widely distributed in the Philippines. Tropical Asia. Africa, and 

 Malaya. T., Bignay pogo. 



4. A. leptocladum Tul.; .Muell. Arg. 1. c. 253. 



(728, 2058, 3034 Borden) May. October; (6125 Leiberg) July; (1316 Whitford) 



June; (2408 Merrill) .June. In forests and thickets 30 to 250 m. Malaya. T., 

 Bignay. 



5. Antidesma lucidum Merrill, sp. now 



A small tree G to 9 m. high, glabrous throughout. Branches brown or grayish, 

 slender, glabrous. Leaves alternate, elliptical ovate to oblong ovate, subcoria- 

 ceous, glabrous, shining on both surfaces, usually dark above and paler beneath 

 when dry. 4 to cm. long. 1.5 to 4 cm. wide, entire, the base acute, the apex 

 broadly blunt acuminate, the acumen blunt, apiculate or retuse; nerves 5 to fi 

 on each side of the midrib, distant, anastomosing, the reticulations very lax; 

 petioles glabrous, 3 to 5 mm. long; stipules small, deciduous. Inflorescence axil- 

 lary and terminal, glabrous, slender, spicate, or the spikes in few -blanched 

 panicles 6 em. long or less. Male flowers sessile or nearly so. scattered, each 

 subtended by a small acute bract less than 0.5 mm. long, usually solitary or 

 rarely two or three togather. Calyx glabrous, cup shaped, obscurely 4 or 5 

 toothed or subtruncate. Stamens 4 to 5 in flowers on the same plant ; filaments 

 1.6 nun. long, the anthers cells 0.4 mm. long, the disk fleshy, thickened. Fruit 

 red when mature, wrinkled when dry, somewhat compressed, glabrous, ovoid, 

 (! to 7 mm. long, the persistent style small, terminal. 



(2042, 2775 Meyer) February; (1135 Whitford) March; (7005 Elmer) No- 

 vember. In forests 700 to 000 m. A species in vegetative characters similar to 

 Antidesma roatratum Tul.. differing from that species, and from -1. leptocladum, 

 and A. pleuricum in being quite glabrous. 



10. BISCHOFIA Blume. 



I. B. trifoliata (Hoxb.) Hook. f. B. jaraniea Blume; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 478. 



(05 Barnes) November; (Whitford) June; (3 Merrill) Decades Philip. Forest 

 Flora, coll. Barnes, December. In forests along streams 75 to 200 m., widely dis- 

 tributed in the Philippines. Tropical Asia to Malaya and Polynesia. T., Tuay. 



11. BRIDELIA Willd. 



1. B. stipularis (Linn.) Blume; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 49!). 



(2023 Borden) October; (3139 Merrill) October; (6769 Elmer) November; 

 (02 Whitford) April. In thickets below 100 in., abundant, widely distributed 

 in the Philippines. Tropical Asia and Africa to Malaya. T., Lubalub, 



2. B. tomentosa Blume, var. lancaefolia (Roxb.) Muell. Arg. I. c. 502. 



(22G2 Meyer) December; (6754 Elmer) November; (1405. 1016. 2346 Borden) 

 July, September, January: (3087 Merrill) October. In thickets below 100 m.. 

 widely distributed in the Philippines. Timor. T., Argai. 



12. CROTON Linn. 



1. C. consanguineus Muell. Arg. 1. c. 619. 



(2637. 2814 Meyer) February, March. In forests 550 to 900 m. Endemic. 



2. C. leiophyllus Muell. Arg. 1. c. 573. 



(1433, 1467 Ahern'8 collector) July. August; (2543 Borden) February: (2298 

 Meyer) December. In thickets near the seashore. Endemic. 



