JANUARY 25, 1908] A CENTURY or New PLANTS 306 
Type specimen 8915, 4. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. This very peculiar species 
has been collected only twice in the Philippines and both 
times on an open dry hot ridge west of the Sablan Falls. 
Glochidion sablanense n. sp.—Shrub, several m. high; 
bark finely checked scaling in thin plates; branchlets soft 
yellowish pubescent. Leaves alternately arranged in distichous 
rows along the twigs, 1 to 1.5 cm. apart, inequilateral, 
ascending, smooth and lucid green above except the larger 
veins, submembranous, beneath pubescent only on the veins 
and reticulations but becoming glabrous in age, apex acu- 
minate or acute, its rounded tip usually terminated*by a very 
fine point, base rounded, oblong, 7 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide 
below the middle where most of the leaves are a trifle 
wider; nerves fine but evident beneath, 3 to 5 or in the 
larger ones 7 on each side, ascending, their apices anastomos- 
ing, reticulations faint; petiole 2 mm. long, densely pubescent; 
stipule linear, at least as long as the petiole, subglabrous” 
Male flowers suberect, upon very slender 8 mm. long pubes. 
cent pedicels, 1 to 3-clustered in the leaf axils or in the 
axils of their scars, subtended by minute bracteoles; the 
perianth glabrous, 2 mm. long, the 6 unequal and thick 
segments united at the base and oblong; anthers 3, columnar, 
1 mm. long, attached to the fleshy connective which exceeds 
them; female flower short stipitate, similarly placed as the 
male flowers; its 6 segments united at the base, glabrous 
or ciliate along the median dorsal line, 2 mm. long, oblong, 
rounded at the apex, rotately spreading, thickened; ovary 
densely ciliate pubescent; style slightly longer than 1.25 mm. 
pubescent toward the ovary, otherwise glabrous, nearly 1 mm, 
thick, the apex 4-cleft; capsules not seen, but judging from 
the stigma it is 4-celled. 
Type specimen 8770, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province of 
Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. On an exposed hill above Sablan. 
The leaves of this species is also used by the [gorrote women 
as a substitute for tobaeco. The characters of the pistil- 
late" inflorescence should keep it from being confused with 
the common pubescent form of G. philippinense (Cav.) Benth. 
