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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vi u, Art. 121 



Type specimen number 18083, A. D. E, Elmer, Los 

 BaQos (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon. June- 

 July, 1917. Collected in deeply shaded ravines along the 

 main creek at about 1000 feet altitude. 



Primarily distinguished from Antidesma rostratum Tut. 

 by its long and slender petioles, and from Antidesma 

 mbcwdatum glabrifolium Mot. by its differently shaped 

 drupes. 



Glochidion canescens Elm. n. sp. 



A small tree or shrub like. Branches slender, lax. 

 olivaceous soft pubescent, somewhat angularly compressed 

 toward the tips. Leaves submembranous to subchartaceous, 

 alternatingly scattered, ovately oblong or the basal smaller 

 ones subelliptic, often a trifle falcate toward the abruptly 

 acute to acuminate apex, base broadly rounded, subsessiie 

 or upon very short pubescent petioles, up to 12 cm. long, 

 one third as wide, upper shining surface darker green 

 and glabrous except the midrib, nether side canescent, 

 midrib ridged beneath and hairy on the upper side also, 

 5 to 8 ascendingly curved rather conspicuous nerves on 

 each side, cross bars or reticulations faint, when dry 

 brownish beneath and gray above. Flowers fascicled in 

 the leaf axils, the 3 to 5 mm. long and soft hairy pedicels 

 subtended by minute bracts; calyx 3, thickly coriaceous, 

 similarly pubescent, rotund, valvate, 1.75 mm. in length, 

 covering the inner organs; petals as many, a trifle shorter, 

 glabrous, also valvate and alternating with the calyx 

 lobes, similar in shape; stamens 5, forming a short and 

 thick or ellipsoid tube, sessile, thin, connectives very 

 bluntly extended; pistil obsolete or represented by an 

 appendage. Fruit upon short pubescent pedicels, com- 

 pressed globose, 5 to 8 mm. across, canescent, sunken 

 at the apex and with a short stout style, usually sub- 

 tended by part or all of the calyx, 5 or 6-celled and 

 with twice as many obscure ridges. 



Type specimen Forestry Bureau number 25397, collect- 

 ed by C. Mabesa, Los Baflos, Province of Laguna, Luzon, 

 March, 1916. In brushland near the lakeshore. Number 

 5235. ¥. C. Gate* in marsh land near Los Bafios 

 ently the same. 



A close ally of Glochidion molle Blm. but our pubes- 

 cence is shorter and denser, larger leaves are shining 

 and glabrous on the upper side and whose bases are quite 

 different. 



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