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1008 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
Only known from the island of Balabac. Vidal first col- 
lected it there. 
PLECTRONIA Linn. 
Plectronia viridis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. Suppl. I; 
131, 1906. 
The type specimen is 3945 of the author, collected on 
mount Mariveles, March, 1905. Widely distributed in the 
Philippines, but especially abundant in the type locality. 
Elmers 12481 from the island of Sibuyan is not typical. 
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Plectronia megacarpa Merritt Philip. Journ. Sci. III; 
326, 1909. ele Mb We. 
Based upon Forestry Bureau number 8232, colleeted by ; | 
Messrs. Curran and Merritt near Santa. Cruz, province of Zam- ., °° 
bales, Luzon. Its large fruits are very characteristic, and i iş 
unknown elsewhere. 
Plectronia gracilipes Elm. n. sp. 
A small suberect tree; stem crooked, 1 dm. thick, 5 m. 
high, subterete; branches at the top mostly, divaricately spread- 
ing, numerously and laxly rebranched, forming a dense crown; 
the twigs somewhat drooping, curved, interlaced, tips sub- 
erect; wood brownish toward the center,» moderately soft, 
odorless and tasteless; bark grayish white, more or less check- 
ed and roughened with excrescences. Leaves rigidly coria- 
ceous, flat, ascending, shining deep green above, much pa- 
ler or yellowish green beneath, drying nearly black on the 
upper side, brown beneath, diverse in size, glabrous, the 
smaller ones lanceolate to oblanceolate, the larger narrowly 
oblong, acuminately tapering at both ends, 1 dm. long, 2.5 
cm. wide across the middle, the entire margins slightly in- 
volute in the dry state; midvein brown, smooth, the ascend- 
ing lateral nerves 3 to 4 on each side, very obscure on both 
sides; petiole glabrous, 1 cm. long; stipule 4 mm. long, also 
glabrous, broad at the base, abruptly tapering -to: a sharp : 
point. Inflorescence usually solitary, upon ‘slender 3 long 
