o 
DECEMBER 23, 1911] EuruorBIaceaE CoLLecren on Parawan Istanp 1289 
flattened at both ends, subtended by 5 or 6 green calyx seg- 
i ments, 10-seeded. 
1 Represented by number 12689, Elmer, Brooks Point (Ad- 
: dison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
: Gathered in moist sand gravelly soil fronting the beach 
forests. The Tagbanua or vernacular name is "Tabango." Not. 
1 common in Palawan and is rarely known from other Philippine 
localities. 
Glochidion balsxhanense Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub; stem 5 to 8 em. thick, 4 m. high, branched from near 
the base; main branches spreading, numerously rebranched, the 
ultimate twigs green and glabrous, when dry reddish brown; 
wood rather hard, odorless and tasteless, the outside sappy white, 
the central mass a trifle reddish tinged; bark castaneus on the 
deeply checked outer surface, umber brown otherwise. Leaves 
also glabrous, alternatingly scattered along the branchlets, 
mostly horizontal, chartaceous, shallowly folded upon the upper 
deeper green surface, recurved especially toward the apex, entire, 
the younger ones pale green, 7 to 10 em. long by 4 to 5 em. 
; wide across the middle, bluntly acute at apex, base rounded 
or roundly obtuse and frequently inequilateral, subelliptie or 
broadly oblong, drying very dull brown; midvein conspicuous 
beneath, lighter brown in the dry state; lateral nerves 5 to 7 
pairs, divaricate, tips strongly curved ascendingly, anastomosing, 
much less prominent, reticulations very fine and obscure; petiole 
3 mm. long, glabrous. Staminate flowers clustered from the 
leaf axils, spreading, melleus, the buds green; pedicels varying 
up to 5 mm. long, glabrous, subtended at the base by minute 
and subglabrous bracteoles; pistillate flowers sessile in the leaf 
axils, ovary and style column pubescent, the 5 stigmatic seg- 
ments short and glabrous; perianth segments 6, imbrieate, 
united at the base, yellowish green, glabrous, ultimately spreading 
and recurved, oblong, 2.5 mm. long by 1.5 mm. wide across the 
middle, with rounded or obtuse apices; stamens erect, forming 
a short thick column, 5; anthers longitudinally dehiscent, 1 mm. 
long, the thick and rigid connectives protruding into 3 blunt 
points; capsule becoming glabrous, flattened, 1.25 em. across, 
between purpureus and atropurpureus on the exposed mature 
