309 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Art. 16 
coarse; petiole persistent, glabrous, 2 to 4 em. long, thicken- 
ed at both ends. Inírutescence lateral, usually from the 
axils of leaves or from the axils of fallen leaves, pendulous, 1 to 3 
in a cluster; pedicels 3 to 5 em. long, slender, glabrous, persistent, 
at the base subtended by minute scale like bracts, conspicuous- 
ly thiekened toward the apex; calyx on capsules persistent, 
reflexed, 4 mm. long, united at the base, the 5 larger segments 
acute, the much smaller ones alternating; central axis of 
capsule persistent, triangularly winged especially toward the 
top; capsute flattened, 12 mm. high, triangularly rounded, 2 
em. in diameter, 3-celled, septicidally dehiscent, pericarp 
smooth, green and leathery, endocarp horny and very smooth 
on the interior; stigma on most capsules 6-segmented; seeds 
2 in each cell, the side next to the septum flat, the dorsal 
side convex, attached ventrally by a very thin membrane, 
base triangularly indented, 1 cm. long, less than that across. 
Type specimen 7245, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. Only one shrub was found 
in the thin woods of the foothills. ‘The fruits were collected 
in an almost mature state. After lying on my table for 
one or two days they began to burst with a force that 
scattered the seeds two to three dm. about. The capsules began 
to burst from the base along the septae but the spontaneous 
action was strong enough to continue the splitting along the 
dorsal suture from the apex clear to the base. This last 
operation was necessary in order to allow the seeds to be 
thrown out from between the septae, and often the dispers- 
ing foree was violent enough to separate the exocarp from 
the endoearp. A small genus of two to three Malayan species 
and which is here for the first time reported from the Philip- 
pines. 
Daphniphyllum luzonense n. sp.—Shrub or small tree; 
twigs smooth, with light brown lenticels. Leaves alternate, 
drying brown, usually clustered. toward the ends of the 
young shoots, ascending, nearly flat, submembranous, glabrous, 
broadly lanceolate to narrowly oblong, the blade of the larger 
ones 15 cm. long and 5 em. wide, darker green above, apex 
acute to acuminate, base obtuse, entire margins slightly in- 
volute; nerves 5 to 7 on each side, ascending, faint, except 
