2650 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor.. VII, Arr. 114 
flattened ends, vertically 6-creased, brown in the dry state, 
rather prominently verrucose when mature, bearing a sessile 
3 lobulate small stigma, 3-celled, 3-seeded; seeds brown, 
1.5 mm long, rugulose or transversely fluted on all 3 sides, 
more pointed toward the apex, sides flat, back strongly 
convex. 
Type specimen number 13576, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 
ober, 1912. 
In moist black soil among river stones along the Minu- 
suang at approximately 750 feet altitude. ‘‘Payog” in the 
Manobo dialect. 
Closest related to Phyllanthus puna C. B. Rob. but 
our leaves are narrower, fruiting calyx smaller, capsules 
verrucose and seeds transversely fluted not pitted. 
; 44 Phyllanthus urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 
Upright and slender shrub; stem 5 to 8 em thick, 5 
m high, branched from the middle or below it; wood odor- 
less and without taste, moderately hard, the sapwood white, 
the greater central mass yellowish tinged; old bark brown 
and roughened with excrescences, otherwise smooth, testaceus 
or isabellinus except the epidermis; main branches ascend- 
ing, rebranched toward their distal ends; twigs horizontal 
or ascending, glabrous, slender, the terminal portion green 
but dull brown when dry, obscurely angular and usually 
ridged, very flexible, numerous toward the ends. Leaves 
copious, lighter colored beneath, alternate, similarly spread- 
ing or descending, thinly coriaceous or submembranous, dry- 
ing similarly brown on both sides, the acute to acuminate 
apex recurved, basal portion obtuse and constricted at the 
base or with a decurrent-like petiole, entire, oblongish or 
the smallest ones broadly lanceolate, the larger ones 1 dm 
long by 4 cm wide at or below the middle, those on num- 
ber 14163 are smaller and with subfalcate tips, slightly 
inequilateral and many of them are glaucous white beneath; 
leaf base thick, inserted upon a large notched portion of 
the twig; midvein prominent on both sides especially beneath; 
lateral nerves up to 16 pairs, with secondary ones toward the 
