LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. 1. Art. 16 
brous, a trifle longer than the petioles, thick. Flowers 
pendulous, mainly in the upper leaf axils, yellowish green, male 
flowers upon slender glabrous 3 to 5 mm. long pedicels 
subtended at the base by minute bracteoles, from 1 to 3-cluster- 
ed; the 5 or 6 segments also glabrous, 1 mm. long, oblong to 
elliptic; anthers 3, united along the connective, included ; female 
flower subsessile, its 5 or 6 segments oblong, persistent, nearly 
2 mm. long, radially spreading from the united base; ovary 
densely pubescent, ‘short pedicelled; style 1.5 mm. long 
including the 4-parted stigmatie apex, 0.75 mm. thick, glabrous 
or only sparsely pubescent near the ovary; capsule glabrous, 
7 mm. in diameter, flattened, 4-celled, each cell with 2 flat- 
^ tened seeds. 
Type specimen 8665, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province of 
Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. On hot dry hillsides at the 
barrio of Bacong. The Igorrotes call it Sangke. 
Glochidion subfalcatum n. sp..—Spreading tree, 6 m. high, 
with hard reddish heart wood; bark thick, scaling in coarse 
plates; branches few, erect or ascending, thick; the branchlets 
spreading, subterete, smooth, gray. Leaves coriaceous, alter- 
natingly arranged along the twigs in disticheus rows, 1.5 
to 2 em. apart, deciduous, leaving large elevated scars te- 
tween the 2 persistent stipules, lucid green above, much 
paler or subglabrous beneath, ascending, with recurved tips 
and more or less conduplicate on the upper side toward the 
apex, very inequilateral, usually subfalcate, oblong, 14 cm. 
long, 4 em. wide across the middle, glabrous, apex acute 
or acuminate, usually curved, base obtuse, rounded or sub- 
truncate and with very unequal sides; veins 5 to.7 or even 9 
on each side, dark brown, conspicuous beneath; thick woody 
petiole 3 to 5 mm. long; stipules rigid, shining, triangularly 
acute or even spinescent. Flowers not seen. Capsules upon 
slender glabrous 3 to 5 mm. long persistent pedicels, 1 to 
5-clustered in tbe leaf axils, subglobose, 2 to 3 em. in diameter, 
yellowish green, those exposed to the sunlight turning red, 
bladdery, 5-celled, dehiscing from the apex into 10 parts, the 
yellowish red seeds 2 in each cell, arranged upon the central 
axis, brown and shining smooth when dry, about 5 mm. 
long, irregularly obovoid, the base pointed. 
