1302 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 68 
PHYLLANTHUS Linn. 
Phyllanthus lamprophyllus Muell. Arg. 
Field-note:—Shrubs, varying from a few feet to a few yards 
in height; stem few inches thick, branched all along, suberect, 
terete, crooked; wood solid, heavy, quite hard, odorless and 
tasteless, fumosus; old bark brown, deeply channelled longi- 
tudinally, relatively thick, on the branches thinly checked; rachis 
green; leaflets flat, ascending, shining deep green above, much 
paler beneath; flowers pendant, cremeus except the brown 
subtending bracts, minute, odorless; capsule also pendant, 0.25 
to 0.33 inch across, subglobose, light green and with yellowish 
green longitudinal streaks, 3-celled, 6-seeded ; seeds pale umbrinus, 
exocarp melleus, endocarp stramineus. 
Represented by number 12733, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Thrives in compact gravelly soil along the banks of water 
courses at 250 feet. Very common and ornamental! 
Phyllanthus glochidioides Elm. n. sp. 
A lax suberect usually umbranched undershrub; stem terete, 
2 m. high, 1.25 em. thick, reclining upon adjoining shrubs toward 
the top, wood soft, whitish on the very outside, the central mass 
isabellinus, odorless and tasteless; bark testaceus except the 
greenish or outer smooth surface, gray toward the base; the twigs 
brown when dry, striate, slender, glabrate or finely pulverulent, 
suberect. Leaves alternatingly scattered along the twigs, ascending, 
flat, the acute or obtuse apex slightly recurved, rigidly coriaceous, 
entire, the younger ones at least glaucous beneath, very unequally 
brown in the dry state, subeuneately tapering toward the base 
or merely ovately oblong, 7.5 em. long, 3 em. wide across the mid- 
dle, midvein conspicuous below toward the base, yellowish brown 
in the dry state; the 3 to 5 lateral pairs very oblique especially 
the basal ones, thin tips retieulately united, retieulations very 
prominent from both sides and rather coarse; petiole 5 mm. long, 
 eompressed, finely pulverulent, artieulated at the base; stipule 
3 mm. long, thick, spinescently pointed, subpersistent. Flowers 
umbellately spreading from the leaf axils; pedicels 5 to 7.5 em. 
