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annulari, 6-lobato; ovario sparse pubescente, 3-loculari: foliis brevissime 

 petiolatis, rhomboideo-oblongis, basi inaequilateralibus, acutis. 



Male flowers few in a fascicle, borne on pedicels 2-10 mm long; 

 perianth-segments 4, broadly lanceolate, the margins merely lacerate- 

 dentate or somewhat fimbriate; glands 4, slightly shorter than wide, 0.5 

 mm long, obscurely tuberculate but not near the margin ; staminal column 

 very short, bearing on its apical margin 4 horizontally dehiscing anther- 

 cells surrounding a small but definite rudiment of the ovary: female 

 flowers usually solitary, sometimes in the same fascicles with the male, 

 borne on pedicels 2-3 cm long, slender at the base but conspicuously 

 thickened near the flower; perianth-segments 6 or rarely 5, lanceolate- 

 ovate, 2-3 mm long including the long slender acumen, lacerate-dentate ; 

 disk shallowly annular, its upper margin forming as many oblong lobes 

 as the perianth has segments, the lobes usually notched and glandular at 

 the apex; ovary with scattered hairs, subglobose, 2 mm in diameter (flower 

 rather old), styles 3, bifid, with short slender lobes, at the base more or' 

 less united: capsules subglobose, 4 mm in diameter, glabrous; no mature 

 seeds found. 



A woody bush 1 m high, its numerous branches crowded near the apex, 

 the older parts of the stem covered with gray bark, the branches more 

 or less densely pubescent: leaves distichous, borne on petioles less than 

 0.5 mm long, the lamina membranaceous, rhomboid-oblong, 17-22 mm 

 long, 7.5-8.5 mm wide, the base strongly inequilateral, acute or nearly 

 so on both margins, the apex rounded, mucronate; the upper surface 

 green, glabrous, the under glaucous and minutely pubescent ; lateral veins 

 on each side of the midrib 4-7, obscure; stipules linear-lanceolate, 2.5 

 mm long, pubescent. 



Mindoro, Pinamalayan, For. Bur. 53110 Merritt (type); Calausan, For. Bur. 

 8189 Merritt; without further locality, For. Bur. 8606 Merritt. 



16. Phyllanthus blancoanus Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1863) 49, prob.; 

 Merr. in Philip. Jour. Sei. 1 (1906) Suppl. 74, certe. 



P. niruri Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 690; non Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 981. 



P. tetrander Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 480; non P. tetrandrus Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 3 (1832) 674. 



Luzon, Province of Pampanga, Mount Arayat, Merrill 8880, Bolster 98: 

 Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, For. Bur. 2698 Ahern's collector: Province of Bataan, 

 Mount Mariveles, Lamao River, Merrill 3119, 8151, Whitford 231, Williams J,28. 



Phyllanthus tetrander Blanco is merely his own correction of his identification 

 of P. niruri in the first edition, the description being unchanged. Mueller, con- 

 sidering that this also was wrong, renamed the species, basing P. blancoanus 

 entirely upon Blanco's descriptions, with some suggested corrections. He placed 

 the species in the section Eriococcus, where the present plants belong. Unless 

 perhaps by F.-Villar, the species was first identified with herbarium material by 

 Merrill in the "Lamao Flora," and it is the species so identified by him that is 

 here accepted, after careful reexamination of the material. There is one important 

 difficultv: Blanco describes the leaves, called by him leaflets, as linear, which 



