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obscure lobes; capsule 3-celled, compressed at both ends, 
subpendulous upon slender pedicels, 1 cm. in diameter, 
pubescent, each cell 2-ovuled but comparatively few of the 
ovules grow to maturity. 
Type specimen 8947, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. In ravines mixed with 
shrubs and small trees between the barrios of Kamucao and 
Bayabas near Sablan. Called Butpat by the Igorrotes whose 
women smoke the foliage as a poor substitute for the 
tobacco leaf. It differs from G. molle Blm., its nearest ally, 
in not having oblique leaves, only three instead of five anthers 
and in not being a tree nor even tree like. A more dis- 
tant relative is G. villosum Mig. 
Glochidion reticulatum n. sp.— Apparently a Jaxly branched 
and spreading shrub; branchlets very slender, thin, terete, with 
gray bark, glabrous or only the young twigs with a sparse 
pubescence. Leaves flat or with recurved tips, membranous 
alternatingly arranged along the branchlets, about 1.5 em. 
apart, diverse in size, the average ones 7 em. long by 3 em. 
wide across the middle, shining smooth on the upper surface 
beneath glabrous or with a few scattering hairs along the 
nerves, ovate to oblong, abruptly acute in the smaller elliptic 
ones, normally acuminate, base rounded or bluntly obtuse, 
symmetrical; nerves prominent beneath and quite evident 
from the upper side, 3 to 5 on each side, coarsely anastomosing 
above the middle, the reticulations nearly as prominent as 
the primary nerves; petiole subglabrous, 2 mm. long, stout; 
stipules only one half as long, finely pubescent, setaceously 
pointed. Male flowers usually single in the leaf axils or 
occasionally 2 and even 3, upon very slender subglabrous or 
sparsely pubescent 1 cm. long pedicels; perianth coriaceous, 
subglabrous, or the outer ones ciliate pubescent, 2 to 3 mm. 
long; the 5 unequal segments oblong to oblanceolate, with 
acute tips, bases united; anthers 3, closely united to the 
fleshy connective which terminates into 3 brown points 0.3 
mm. long, the anthers 1 mm. long, the ovoid column 0.75 
mm. in diameter; pistillate flowers and fruits not seen. 
