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307 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Art. 16 
Homalanthus alpinus n. sp.— Small erect tree, 8 m. 
high; ultimate branehes rather numerous, rigid, forming a 
round topped crown; younger bark smooth, brown. Leaves 
densely clustered toward the ends of the nearly parallel twigs, 
the lower ones early falling leaving large yellowish scars, 
ascending, coriaceous, lucid green above, glaucous beneath, 
short acute to obtuse at apex, base cuneate or obtuse, rhomboid 
to broadly elliptic, the average blade 6 em. long and 6 cm. 
wide across the middle, glabrous, the base subtended by a 
conspicuous pair of glands equally prominent on both sides; 
nerves 5 to7 pairs, comparatively straight and ascending, 
reticulately anastomosing toward the apex; petiole glabrous, 
usually tinged with red, slender, 3 to 5 cm. long, subtended 
at the base by a pair of smooth yellowish stipular glands 
or excrescences; bud scale 2 cm. long, acuminate brown, 
glabrous on both sides. Fruits solitary or in small clusters 
from the upper leaf axils; pedicels 5 mm. long, glaucous 
green, strongly recurved; calyx also persistent, dry, 3-toothed; 
style 3 mm. long, glabrous, divaricately branched from near the 
hase, persistent; capsule olive green, short stipitate, somewhat 
fleshy obovoid or broadly ellipsoid, subcompressed, loculicidally 
dehiscent when old, 2-celled, 1 em. lonz, almost as wide; seeds 
.1 in each cell, ellipsuid or obscurely 3-ang'ed, neirly black, 
smooth, 5-mm. long, 3 mm. thick, pendulous from the much 
flattened p'acentae; staminate flowers not seen. 
Type specimen 7523, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. At 2000 meters on Mount 
Banahao it forms dense groves and is only found in 
high altitudes. It is a segregate from the lowland species 
H. populneus ( Geisel.) Pax which is represented by my number 
9226 and is found in thicket borders of meadows around 
Lucban. The leaves of our specimen are not acuminate nor 
membranous, with shorter petioles and more compact!y 
crowded toward the ends of the branchlets. 
Phyllanthus leytensis n. sp.-—Strict, shrub, sparsely 
branched at the top, 3 to 8 dm. high or a few stems from 
the same root; stems terete, about 5 mm. thick; bark 
light gray, smooth, obscurely checked, the younger bark 
brown pubescent or only pulverulent. Leaves chiefly at the 
