303 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE Botany | Vor. I. Arr. 16 
Type specimen 8188, A. D. E. Elmer, Los Bafios, Province 
. of Laguna, Luzon, April, 1906. This species has been collected 
- only twice in tbe same locality. 
Glochidion leytense n. sp.— Erect shrub, 2to3m. high; 
branches quite slender, sparingly rebranched, smooth, dark 
brown at least when dry. Leaves alternate, subcoriaceous, 
arranged along the twigs in distichous rows, about 4 cm. 
apart, mostly horizontally spreading, flat, glabrous, slightly 
inequilateral, ovately oblong, the medium ones 15 em. long 
by 7 em. wide below the middle, apex mostly acute and 
tipped with a fine mucronate point, base rounded, edges 
entire; nerves 5 on each side, brown, more conspicuous 
beneath; petiole 5 mm. ‘long, stout, glabrous, thickened 
toward the base. Inflorescence axillary, rather numerously 
flowered; pedicels very slender, glabrous, subflexuosely spread- 
ing, 15 mm. long, subtended at the base by many minute 
bracts; perianth glabrous and subglaucous on the outer side, 
united only at the base, persistent, the 6 segments 2.5 mm. 
long, obovate to oblong, with obtusely rounded apices, rather 
thick; anthers sessile, chiefly united into an erect column, 
finally their tipped connectives separating, 3, about 1 mm. long; 
0.5 mm. wide, more or less linear, attached to the thick brown 
colored connectives; pistillate flowers similarly clustered, but 
fewer and upon shorter pedicels; the perianth glabrous, 2.5 mm. 
long, coriaceous, the 6 segments united at the base into a short 
cup; ovary glabrous or subglaucous, compressed; style 1.25 
mm. long, 1 mm. in diameter at the base, conically tapering 
^ to the 7 to 9 suleate apex, glabrous; fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 7377 (a) A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. In shrubby light woods of 
the hills. It has affinities with G. cumingii Muell. Arg. and 
C. album (Blco.) Boerl., but differs from both in being wholly 
glabrous. This same character also distinguishes it from 
G. trichogyum Muell. Arg. 
Glochidion quinquestylum n. sp.—A flat topped spread- 
ing tree, 5 m. high; wood not extremely hard, covered with 
scaling bark; branches numerous, ascending, the older grayish 
white bark of the branches minutely lenticelled. Leaves dull 
green, subglabrous beneath, flat, ascending, submembranous, 
