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midrib, prominent, anastomosing, curved, the reticulations lax; 
petioles densely pubescent, 2 mm long or less. Flowers fascicled, 
those in the lower fascicles mostly male, in the upper ones mostly 
female. Male flowers: Perianth somewhat campanulate, about 
4 mm long, the segments 6, somewhat recurved, oblong-oblanceo- 
late, obtuse to acute, the outer three prominently ciliate-hirsute 
with spreading hairs, the inner three somewhat smaller, glabrous, 
or sparingly hirsute at the base only. Stamens 3, the anthers 
united, including the 0.56 mm long connectives about 2 mm in 
length; pedicels ciliate-hirsute, 3 to 5mm long. Female flowers 
fewer than the males, mostly in the upper axils, sessile or nearly 
so, 5-merous, the segments ciliate-hirsute, obtuse or acute, linear- 
spatulate, equal, about 1 mm wide. Ovary globose, glabrous, 
1 mm in diameter; style cylindric, nearly as thick as the ovary, 
jointed above the ovary and falling readily, puberulent except 
the somewhat cleft glabrous apex. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Cadig, near Guinayangan, Bur. 
Sci. 20881 Escritor, March 7, 1913, in forests. 
A species with indument characters resembling those of Glochidion 
weberi C. B. Rob., but with entirely different leaves and different flowers. 
It is not closely allied to any other known Philippine species. 
HOMALANTHUS Jussieu 
HOMALANTHIS MEGAPHYLLUS sp. nov. § Disepali. 
Frutex circiter 3 m altus, glaber, foliis suborbiculari-ovatis, 
submembranaceis vel chartaceis, usque ad 35 cm. longis, alte 
peltatis; inflorescentiis ¢ circiter 40 cm longis, bracteolis biglan- 
dulosis, unifloris; floribus tenuiter pedicellatis, circiter 2 mm 
diametro, staminibus 30; sepalis 2, valde inaequalibus. 
A glabrous shrub about 3 m high. Leaves broadly ovate or 
_suborbicular-ovate, broadly peltate, submembranaceous or char- 
taceous, up to 35 cm long and nearly as wide, the base broadly 
rounded, shining on both surfaces, the apex rounded or obtuse, 
radiately 10-nerved, the lateral nerves above the base about 11 
on each side of the midrib, prominent; petioles as long as 
the lamina; stipules membranaceous, oblong-ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, sharply acuminate, deciduous, 10 cm long. Male 
racemes about 40 cm long, many flowered, the flowers deciduous 
from the base upward, the bracteoles oblong, rounded or truncate, 
slightly cucullate, about 1 mm long, each with two round glands 
about 0.5 mm in diameter, each bract subtending a solitary, 
slenderly pedicelled staminate flower, the pedicels 6 mm long 
below, gradually shorter upward, the buds nearly sessile. Male 
flowers depressed-globose, 2 mm in diameter, greenish-yellow. 
