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shorter than wide; stylar column cylindric, entire, not contracted 
at the base, nearly as wide as the ovary, pubescent, about 1 
mm long and wide, truncate, hollow. 
PANAY, Capiz Province, Jamindan, Bur. Sci. 31374 Ramos & 
Edano, May 22, 1918, in forests along small streams. 
In leaf venation this species resembles Glochidion dolicho- 
stylum Merr. but differs radically from that species in its longer, 
slenderly acuminate, more numerously nerved, glabrous leaves, 
and is entirely different in its floral characters. | 
GLOCHIDION HUMILE sp. nov. § Hemiglochidion. 
Frutex parvus, ramis usque ad 30 cm longis e radicibus in- 
crassatis; foliis ellipticis, subcoriaceis, 4 ad 10 cm longis, utrin- 
que plerumque rotundatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, cum reti- 
culis perspicuis, subtus ad costa nervisque pubescens; floribus 
fasciculatis, ¢ tenuiter pedicellatis, perianthii segmentis ellip- 
ticis, 3 mm longis, exterioribus pubescens; staminibus 3; floribus 
@ breviter pedicellatis, pubescens, ovario pubescente, columna 
stylari pubescente, quam ovario duplo longiore, cylindrica, sur- 
sum leviter angustata, basi haud constricta. 
A shrub or undershrub consisting of short, simple branches 
produced from the much-thickened roots, these branches vary1ns 
in length from 7 to 30 cm, slender, terete, up to 3 mm in diameter, 
the older ones glabrous, the younger parts pubescent. Leaves 
elliptic to somewhat oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, 4 to 10 cm 
long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, base rounded, apex usually rounded, some- 
times obtuse, the upper surface glabrous or nearly so, usually 
pale when dry, the lower surface distinctly pubescent on the 
midrib, nerves, and reticulations; lateral nerves about 6 on each 
side of the midrib, distinct, the reticulations lax, evident. Male 
and female flowers fascicled, mostly in separate axils, male 
flowers with pedicels up to 11 mm long, slightly pubescent, the 
outer three perianth-segments elliptic, obtuse, about 3 mm longs: 
somewhat pubescent, the inner three somewhat smaller, glabrous 
or slightly pubescent on the medium portion. Stamens 3, the 
staminal mass cylindric, about 1.5 mm long. Female flowers 
with pedicels about 8 mm long, pubescent. Sepals oblong to 2a” 
rowly oblong, obtuse, pubescent, 2 mm long. Ovary and style 
pubescent, the styles forming an almost entire or slightly lobed 
column which is nearly as broad as the ovary, not at all con- 
stricted at the base, slightly narrowed upward, and about twice 
as long as the ovary. Capsules usually about 8-celled, depressed- 
globose, prominently sulcate, about 1.3 cm in diameter, brow" 
when dry, sparingly pubescent with short hairs. 
