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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 51 
em. thick, 3 and 4 m. high, more or less crooked; branch- 
es crookedly rebranched, mostly at the top; wood reddish 
white, rather hard, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, brown; 
leaves rigidly coriaceous, ascendingly recurved, otherwise flat, 
lucid deep green above, much paler green beneath; inflor- 
escence pistillate only, ascending from the leaf axils, the 
odorless flowers yellowish. Scattered among other undershrubs 
on a wooded wind swept ridge at 4750 feet or higher, in moist 
red soil with some rocks. 
Represented by number 12519, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Antidesma leptocladum genuinum Muell. Arg. in DC. 
Prod. XV?; 253, 1862. 
Field-note: —Shrub 3 m. high; stem terete, 5 cm. thick, 
branched above the middle, widely spreading, the ultimate 
ones lax; wood quite solid, the sapwood whitish, brownish 
toward the center; bark smooth, yellowish gray; leaves coria- 
ceous, horizontal, nearly flat, shining deep green above, pa- 
ler green beneath; inflorescence terminal, axillary, sparingly 
branched, the rachis succulent and deep green, the calyx 
yellowish so; filaments whitish; flowers odorless. In moist 
gravelly soil along wooded banks of the Sinuban creek at 
750 feet. The natives call it “Tuba.” 
Represented by number 12191, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
BREYNIA Forst. 
Breynia rhamnoides Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod XV?; 
440, 1866. 
Field-note:—Shrubs; stem 5 m. high, 12 cm. thick, 
suberect, terete; its main branches from the middle, freely 
rebranched and widely spreading, the ultimate ones green; 
wood dingy white, rather soft, slightly fetid, tasteless; bark 
brown or yellowish, coarsely checked; leaves very smooth, 
submembranous, nearly flat and horizontally spreading, dull 
green above, glaucescent beneath; flowers pale green or 
yellowish, subpendulous; fruits bright red, globose or nearly 
