16,6 Merrill: Philippine Euphorbiaceae, III 541 
acuminate scales; branchlets crowded toward the tips of primary 
ones, slender, up to 40 cm in length, somewhat simulating pin- 
nate leaves, 2 mm in diameter or less, terete or somewhat an- 
gular near the nodes, the apical portion distinctly angular. 
Leaves numerous, chartaceous, the upper surface dark brown 
and shining when dry, the lower paler, oblong-elliptic, 3 to 4.5 
cm long, 1.3 to 2 cm wide, subequilateral, narrowed to the acute 
base and to the distinctly acuminate and often apiculate apex; 
lateral nerves slender, about 9 on each side of the midrib, anas- 
tomosing, the reticulations rather close, distinct; petioles 2 mm 
long or less; stipules lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
about 3 mm long. Staminate flowers axillary, fascicled, their 
pedicels about 5 mm long, the perianth about 4 mm in diameter, 
the lobes 6, equal, elliptic-oblong, rounded or obtuse, 1.8 to 2 
mm long. Disk glands 6, globose, conspicuous. Stamens 3, 
their filaments erect, free, 1.5 mm long, the anthers longitudinal- 
ly dehiscing, 0.5 mm long. 
LuZzON, Camarines Province, Paracale, Bur. Sci. 33813 Ramos 
& Edaiio, November 29, 1919, in damp forests at low altitudes, 
indicated by the collectors as 2 meters high. 
This species may be as closely allied to Phyllanthus securine- 
goides Merr. as to any other species, although it is radically 
different from the latter in its somewhat thickened ultimate 
branches bearing the elongated, slender branchlets more or less 
crowded at the apices. 
PHYLLANTHUS INDICUS (Dalz.) Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1863) 52, 
DC. Prodr. 16? (1866) 417. 
Prosorus indicus Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. 4 (1852) 346. 
Luzon, Camarines Province, Mapid, For. Bur. 22655 Alvarez, 
November, 1911. PALAWAN, Aborlan, Bur. Sci. 15589 Féniz, 
July, 1912. MINDANAO, Agusan Province, Tipgon River, Weber 
1195, July, 1911, with the Visayan name bungas. In forests 
and thickets at low altitudes. 
The numbers cited are all in fruit, but they agree perfectly 
with a full series of Javan specimens representing this species. 
It has not previously been reported from the Philippines. India 
and Ceylon to Java. 
GLOCHIDION Forster 
GLOCHIDION PHYLLANTHOIDES sp. nov. § Hemiglochidion. 
Arbor parva, glabra, vel partibus junioribus leviter pubescens ; 
foliis oblongo-ellipticis, chartaceis, 2 ad 3 cm longis, apice ro- 
tundatis, basi acutis vel leviter rotundatis, nervis utrinque circiter 
