86 ROBINSON. 



Foxworthy, For. Bur. 1501 Ahern's collector, For. Bur. 2932 Borden, For. Bur. 

 3010 Meyer: Province of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 2011 Ramos: Province of Tayabas, 

 (Infanta) Tinuan River, Whitford 165; Pagbilao, Merrill 1912. Cebu, Toledo, 

 Bur. Sci. 1121 McGregor. 



N. v. Cahoy cahoyan, Tag., Bataan; Agaooyoy, Tag., Tayabas. 



Java. 



SPECIES VALDE DUBLS. 



Phyllantiius nigrescens Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15 2 (1866) 348. 



Kirganelia nigresccns Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 712. 



Nothing nearly answering the description of this species can be found, even 

 if the points on which errors might easily be made are treated very loosely. The 

 two most likely identifications seem to be with Breynia cernua and Glochidion 

 urophylloidcs, neither quite impossible. Assuming what is probable, that the 

 species is represented in our collections, the former is perhaps the species in 

 which a writer could be most easily forgiven for counting the 6 perianth-segments 

 as 4, his 6-celled berry with one seed in each cell may be the 3-celled berry with 

 2 seeds in each, the anthers are 3 not 5, the fruit is black in the herbarium, 

 though red in nature, and his specimen might have been dry. G. urophylloides 

 answers the description better, but not nearly, and he is unlikely to have had it. 

 Fernandez-Villar reduced it to Glochidion mollc BI., which is certainly wrong, 

 and would in any case lose much of its value as there is great reason to believe 

 that Villar misinterpreted the latter species. 



Phyllanthus pumiltjs Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15 2 (1866) 349. 



Kirganelia pumila Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 713. 



Previous suggestions for the reduction of this species have been P. urinaria, 

 P. simplex, and P. niruri, these well fitting the specific name, but not the descrip- 

 tion. If it be a Phyllanthus at all, these have probability in the order given: 

 Blanco is believed to have described the last under another name. He apparently 

 considered the present species to be a Glochidion, but the difficulties in this genus 

 are ever greater. It may belong altogether outside of this group. Mueller's 

 names for this and the preceding were merely transfers of Blanco's, and by him 

 both were considered very doubtful. 



SPECIES EXCLUDENDJE. 



Phyllanthus ruiLLYREAEFOLius Poir. Encycl. 5 (1804) 299. 



According to Mueller, erroneously credited to the Philippines on some sheets 

 of Perrottefs collections, and actually known only from the Mascarenes. 



The following, the majority belonging to Glochidion, were enumerated among 

 Philippine species by Fernandez-Villar, 1 but have not been found by other collect- 

 ors, and were probably wrongly interpreted. 



P. compressicaulis Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 376. 



P. ebiocarpus Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 387. 



P. gaudichaudii marianus Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 379. 



P. insulanus Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 387. 



P. leucogynus Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 75. 



P. marianus Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1863) 17. 



P. multilocularis Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 370. 



P. pulcher Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1863) 49. 



1 Noviss. App. (1883) 187-189. 



