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5. CI CCA Linn. 



Cicca disticha Linn. Mant. (1767) 124. 



Phyllanthus distichus Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15 2 (1866) 413. 



Cicca acidissima Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 700. 



Phyllanthus acidissimus Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1863) 50, non Noronh. 

 in Verh. Batav. Gen. 5* (1790) 22. 



Phyllanthus acidus Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 8 (1903) 41, sphalm. 



Luzon, Province of Ilocos Norte, Bur. Sci. 2281 Mearns: Province of Union, 

 Bauang, Elmer 5641: Province of Kizal, Manila, Loher 4753, Ahem 709, Merrill 

 3804, For. Bur. 12464 Curran: Province of Tayabas, Pagbilao, Merrill 1909. 

 Mindoro, Mamburao, For. Bur. 8612 Merritt; without further locality, For. Bur. 

 8558 Merritt. 



The fruits of this species are fleshy externally, containing a 6- or 8-grooved 

 bony endocarp, firmly united, and not separable by pressure, showing however 

 by traces of the original carpellary walls on its exterior that it represents either 

 3 or 4 carpels, and containing 3 or 4 cells each with one seed. It is well repre- 

 sented by the figure of Lamarck, 2 and less distinctly by that of Vidal. 3 Further, 

 Blanco's description of Cicca acidissima is unusually good. 



Although this species, along with others later described as cogeneric with it, 

 was placed by Mueller in Phyllanthus, it seems clearly separable from that genus, 

 by the structure of its fruit. Blanco described it as dioecious, and that is the 

 testimony of all recent Philippine collections. From Mueller's description it would 

 seem that he had male flowers, with which female flowers were occasionally 

 found, for he implies that the latter are very few, and only found at the bases of 

 the branches. In our material, they are exceedingly numerous. Hooker 4 says 

 that he had not seen the fruit; the statements of Roxburgh and Kurz, cited by 

 him, agree well with the views here maintained. 



Kurz 8 has already revived this Linnaean genus, but with wider limits than 

 here, where it is restricted to such species ordinarily placed in Phyllanthus as 

 have drupaceous fruit, and of these there is but one known in the Philippines. 

 His other species of Cicca are here either in Fluggea or Phyllanthus (P. 

 reticulatus ) . 



N.v. Iba, Tag., Pamp. ; Banquilin, Tag.; Carmay, Tag., Mindoro; Poras, Layo- 

 han, Caguindi, Vis. 



India, Malaysia, and Madagascar. 



6. GLOCHIDION Forst. 



This genus is a very unsatisfactory one, nearly every species showing 

 wide variation, and at the same closely paralleling others, so that it is 

 necessary to place together collections which markedly differ in characters 

 considered to be nonessential in GlocUdion, though often highly signifi- 

 cant elsewhere, while others nearly identical with them in these respects 

 are treated as widely separated. In Philippine material this is especially 

 the case with the series of forms here placed as G. album and G. trichogy- 

 num, but in less degree the same is true of many others. The division 



2 Lam. Eneycl. M<5th. pi. 757. 



3 Vidal Synopsis Atlas pi. LXXX1I, f. D. 

 * Hooker f. Fl. Br. Ind. 5 (1887) 305. 

 'For. Fl. Br. Burma 2 (1877) 351. 



