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glandulis conspicuis vel perianthio coalitis, filamentis connatis, antheris 

 3, horizontalibus ; perianthio femineo 6-partito, 4-5 mm longo, ovario 

 valde depresso, apice truncato, etylis 3, marginalibus, cito bilobatis: 

 ramulis levissime angulatis ; foliis breviter petiolatis, lanceolatis, oblongo- 

 lanceolatis vel ellipticis, apice brevissime acuminatis. 



Flowers axillary, solitary or perhaps sometimes paired, scattered along 

 the branchlets, those of both sexes borne on pedicels 8-10 mm long and 

 slightly dilated upward: male perianth subrotate, 2.5-3 mm long, the 

 margin forming lobes for a depth of about 0.5 mm only, the lobes broad, 

 rounded, truncate, or usually somewhat refuse; disk-glands 6, opposite 

 the perianth-lobes, oblong-orbicular, about 1 mm in diameter, very con- 

 spicuous or more or less coalesced with the perianth; filaments united, 

 0.3 mm long, anthers 3, horizontal, extrorse, 0.5 mm long: female 

 perianth cut almost to the extreme base into (J oblanceolate segments, 

 4-5 mm long, rounded at the apex, contracted at the base; no glands 

 seen; ovary very shortly stalked, 1 mm in diameter, in cross-section 

 rounded-triangular, strongly depressed, the apex truncate and disk-like, 

 styles 3, projecting from the margins of the ovary, at once divided into 

 2 fleshy lobes, the latter widely spreading and more or less outwardly 

 recurved, about 0.7 mm long, the apices entire or rarely slightly 3-lobed: 

 fruiting perianth hardly increased, fruit succulent, red, about 1 cm in 

 diameter. 



Described by the collector as a vine, and appearing to be so : branches 

 and branchlets yellowish, the latter slender and slightly angled: leaves 

 borne on petioles about 2 mm long, the lamina membranaceous, lanceolate, 

 oblong-lanceolate, or elliptic, 2-3.5 cm long, 1-1.7 cm wide, the base 

 rounded or acute, the apex forming a very short acumen, which is obtuse 

 or sometimes mucronate, described as very dark in color, apparently 

 glaucous on the under surface ; stipules persistent, lanceolate, about 1 mm 

 long. 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Lamao River, For. Bur. 193 4 

 Borden, growing as a vine upon Pithecolobium scutiferum (Blanco) Benth., at an 

 elevation of 300 m, and apparently rare. 



Very similar in many ways to 8. brevipes Muell-Arg., but that species has 

 racemed flowers. Apparently very distinct in its habit. 



2. SECURINEGA Commerson. 



1. Securinega acuminatissima comb. nov. 



Phyllanthus acuminatissimus V. B. Robinson in Philip. Jour. Sci. 3 (1908) 

 Bot. 200. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Atimonan, Whitford 676: Province of Camarines, 

 Ragay, For. Bur. 10188 Curran; Pasacao, Ahem 280. Cebu, Toledo, Bur. Sci. 

 1739 McGregor. Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Surigao, Ahem 351; Gibon 

 River, north of Las Navas, For. Bur. 7569 Hutchinson: Rio Grande Valley, 

 Sabacon, For. Bur. 6544 Hutchinson: District of Davao, Santa Cruz, Williams 

 2706, 2807. 



This species is not a Phyllanthus, as shown by the original description of the 



