928 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY | [Vor. III, Arr. 51 
subrotund; the lower subtending bracts united, terminated 
by slender very fine points; those along the upper side thick- 
er, very short and blunt; midvein quite prominent, with 7 
to 11 rather faint lateral oblique pairs. Flowers pendulous, 
solitary from the axillary lower side of the leaflets, yel- 
lowish green, united, subsessile, subtended at the base by 
fine brown colored bracts; perianth segments oblong, with 
obtusely truncate apices, 0.75 mm. long, subequal; ovary 
short stipitate, depressed at the apex, the disk obscurely 
divided into 3 shallowly bilobed compartments, glabrous, sub- 
tended at the base by subsessile anther-like glands; ripe 
fruit 2.6 mm, in diameter, flattish, globose, yellowish green, 
subtended at the base by 6 perianth segments, bearing at 
the apex 3 very short divergently flattened barely forked 
brown colored stigmas, 3-celled, 4-seeded. 
Type specimen 12240, A. D. E. Elmer, (Mt. Giting-giting), 
Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
This elegant and finely leaved Phyllanthus was found rather 
abundant in shale rocky crevices of very deeply shaded cliffs 
near the water’s edge of the Dulangan creek at 750. feet. 
Seen in several places along cascades of the above named 
creek only. 
It is a very close relative to a specimen in the herbarium, 
Bureau of Science, marked P. erythrotrichus C. B. Rob., but 
leaflets much less nerved and inequilateral; rachis only 
sparsely scaly toward the base, not at all pubescent along the 
lower side. 
Phyllanthus sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
Unbranched erect shrub; stem 1 to 2 m. high, terete, 
2.5 cm. thick, leaf bearing above the middle; wood soft, 
greenish white, odorless and tasteless; bark gray, finely check- 
ed, green beneath the epidermis.  Petioles divaricately spread- 
ing, the swollen base dark green, terete, averaging 2 cm. 
long; rachis subterete, reddish along the upper shallowly groov- 
ed side, the lower side of the younger ones finely puberulent, 
slender, somewhat curved, 1 to 2 dm. long; stipules trian- 
gulary acuminate, less than 3 mm. long, thin, brown, caducous; 
the larger leaflets 3 cm. long, nearly one half as wide 
