PHILIPPINE PHYLLANTHINJE. 79 



Male flowers borne on very slender pedicels attaining 14 mm in length, 

 solitary; perianth-segments 6, varying in outline from lanceolate to 

 obovate, slightly exceeding 1 mm in length, acuminate at the apex ; discal 

 glands 6, patelliform; filaments 3, free, comparatively stout, 0.2 mm 

 long; anthers still shorter, dehiscing vertically or somewhat obliquely: 

 female flowers on slightly stouter pedicels attaining a length of 3 cm; 

 perianth-segments 6, oblanceolate or obovate, 2 mm long, the apex rounded 

 or very shortly acuminate ; glands nearly separate, forming an undulating 

 ring, curving inward opposite the perianth-segments and outward alter- 

 nately with them, about 4 glands to each segment; ovary raised on a short 

 stout pedicel, depressed-globose, 0.4 mm in diameter, glabrous; styles 

 united for about 0.6 mm and then forming 3 lobes, which almost im- 

 mediately bifurcate, the lobes in all only 0.1 mm long, stellately arranged : 

 capsules depressed-globose, glabrous, 3 mm in diameter; young seeds 1.3 

 mm long, the testa yellowish, inconspicuously minutely tuberculate. 



An undershrub about 30 cm high, branching near the base, and spar- 

 ingly above, the stems purplish, terete or slightly angled, finely striate, 

 puberulent or glabrescent : leaves distichous, borne on petioles less than 

 1 mm in length, the lamina chartaceous, elliptic, oblong, oval or rarely 

 ovate, variable in size, the larger 10-15 mm long, 6.5-11 mm wide, 

 rounded or mucronate at the apex, usually contracted near the base and 

 there truncate or very slightly cordate, the margins revolute ; lateral veins 

 on each side of the midrib 4-6; upper surface of the lamina olivaceous, 

 under surface glaucous. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Daklan to Kabayan, Merrill ^19 (type) ; Itogon, 

 Bur. Sci. 5758 Ramos; Itogon to Dilopirip, For. Bur. 15879 Bacani. 



In general appearance resembling P. cordatulus, but separated at once by the 

 very different styles. 



7. Phyllanthus urinaria Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 982. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Elmer 6632 pte.: Province of Bataan, 

 Mount Mariveles, Lamao River, Merrill 3157, Williams 97: Province of Rizal, 

 San Francisco del Monte, Loher 4761. Mindobo, Calapan, Bur. Sci. 91 t k Mangubat. 

 Cebu, Cebu, Barrow 17. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 

 7. Basilan, Santa Isabela, DeVore & Hoover 11. 



N.v. Minuh-minuh, Moro, Basilan. 



Cosmopolitan in the Tropics. 



8. Phyllanthus samarensis Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 34 (1865) 73. 

 Samab, Jagor s. n. 



This species is still unknown except from the original specimens, which bore 

 neither female flowers nor capsules. 



9. Phyllanthus dumosus sp. nov. § Euphyllanthus. 



Frutex dumosus, floribus axillaribus, solitariis vel subsolitariis, medio- 

 criter pedicellatis, perianthio 6-partito; utriusque sexus disci glandulis 

 liberis; floribus masculinis staminibus 3, filamentis brevibus, liberis; 

 floribus femineis ovario 6-lobato, 3-loculari : foliis parvis, ellipticis, ovatis, 



