JANUARY 25, 1908] A CENTURY OF New PLANTS 304 
alternately arranged in subdistichous rows along the short 
pubescent twigs, about 1 cm. apart, diverse in size, the 
larger ones 7 em. long and 2.5 em. wide aeross the middle, 
oblong, apex aeute or simply obtuse, the lower one half very 
unequally sided, at the base with a rounded lobe on the 
lower side, the opposite side nearly straight, margins entire, 
with 5 to 8 faint nerves on each side, glabrous; petiole 5 
mm. long, subglabrous; stipule thick, persistent, 2 mm. long, 
sharply acuminate, with a very short ashy gray pubescence. 
Inflorescence axillary, flowers mostly solitary but occasionally 
2 to 3-clustered, the pistillate sessile, the staminate upon 5 
mm. long pedicels which are subtended by minute bracts; 
staminate perianth 1.5 mm. long, subglabrous, imbricate, the 
6 unequal segments mainly free, rounded at the apex, oblong, 
thickened; anthers 5, attached to the fleshy brown connective 
which exceeds them, 0.75 mm. long, forming a column; pis- 
tillate perianth more or less united into a cup, cinereous 
pubescent, its segments acute, persistent, ovary glabrous; 
styles 2 mm. long, subglabrous, thick, triangular, tapering 
from the Fase clear to the apex, well separated, frequently 
only 3 but normally 5; capsules solid, 8 mm. across, equally 
compressed at both ends, smooth, turning reddish when ex- 
posed to the light, 5-celled; ovules 2 in each cell; seeds 3 
mm. long, brown when dry, yellowish when fresh, flat on one 
side, smooth. 
Type specimen 8916, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, Mareh, 1907. On open dry hot ridges 
west of the Sablan Falls. The Igorrotes call it Shimey. 
Glochidion benguetense n. sp.--À lax numerously branched 
bush, 2 m. high; slender twigs more or less short pubescent, 
half drooping. Leaves very many, 5 to 10 mm. apart, 
alternating, those toward the tips ofthe twigs very small, the 
older ones 3 em. long by 12 mm. wide just below the middle, 
dry, glabrous and shining green above, sparsely pubescent 
on. the nerves beneath, ovate to lanceolate to oblong, acute at 
the apex, base rounded or obtuse, most of them a trifle 
inequilateral, the 3 to 5 pairs of nerves and reticulations 
beneath faint, scarious and deflexed, upon 1 to 2 mm. long 
subglabrous petioles; stipules triangularly acuminate, subgla- 
