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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY |Vor. I. Arr. 16 
long, arising from a very short densely bracteate tubercle; 
female flowers glabrous, yellowish green; perianth united at 
the base, persistent; the 6 segments elliptic, 1 mm. long, 
the larger ones nearly as wide; ovary glabrous, 4-celled; 
style short or obsolete, cleft into 4 rather thick arms, 
persistent; capsules 7 mm. in diameter, glabrous, about 4 
mm. high, much compressed, the apex sunken, 4-celled; each 
cell with 2 seeds which are much flattened and about 2 
mm. in diameter, smooth, brown. 
Type specimen 8677, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. The foliage is very sug- 
gestive of some species of Urophyllum. 
Glochidion luzonense n. sp.—Erect shrub, 4 m. high; 
wood solid, reddish; bark brown, longitudinally but shal- 
lowly checked and scaling in thin plates; branches quite 
numerous, spreading, the slenderer ones drooping, densely 
rusty brown pubescent. Leaves alternate, scattered along 
the twigs, 1 to 1.5 cm. apart, ovate to elliptic, very unequal 
in size, 4 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at the 
apex, base truncate or emarginate, margins subinvolute, dry 
and membranous, paler green beneath, soft pubescent es- 
pecially beneath; the 7 to 9 pairs of nerves submarginally 
united, very evident beneath, reticulations nearly as con- 
spicuous; petioles very short, densely pubescent; stipule 
setaceous, pubescent, equalling the petiole. Male flowers 1 
to 3-clustered, upon ascending 5 to 10 mm. long very slender 
pubescent pedicels, yellowish; its 6 perianth segments united 
at the base, thick, oblong, ciliate pubescent on the dorsal 
median portion, 1.5 mm. long, unequal in length and width, 
apex acute; anthers 3, united to the connective which ex- 
tends one third above them, forming a column or finally the 
tips spreading, the anther sacs only 0.5 mm. long; female 
flowers sessile, also 1 to 3-clustered, in the axils of the 
leaves or of fallen leaves; its perianth nearly 2 mm. long, 
only united at the base, the 6 ascendingly curved segments 
ciliate pubescent on the back, thickened, linear, acuminate; 
ovary densely ciliate, subtended by minute ciliated brac- 
teoles; style terete, 2 mm. long, 0.75 mm. thick, erect, cov- 
ered with a ciliate pubescence, the apex cleft into 3 very 
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