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obtusis; filamentis 3, liberis, antheris verticaliter dehiscentibus, 

 floribus 9 plerumque solitariis, pedicillatis, pediceilo usque ad 

 12 mm longo. 



A dioecious shrub, glabrous except the branchlets, the 

 branches slender, terete, grayish-brown. Leaves very numerous, 

 mostly lanceolate, chartaceous, 1.2 to 3 cm long, 4 to 10 mm 

 wide, somewhat olivaceous, shining, the base usually more or 

 less inequilateral, broadly rounded and often slightly cordate, 

 narrowed upward to the acute or somewhat acuminate apex; 

 lateral nerves slender, about 10 on each side of the midrib, 

 spreading, not prominent, anastomosing; petioles 1 mm long or 

 less ; stipules slenderly acuminate, from a broadened base, about 



2 mm long. Staminate flowers fascicled, axillary, but one or 

 few flowers appearing at the same time, each fascicle with nu- 

 merous, crowded, small bracteoles, the pedicels slender, 6 to 8 

 mm long, the perianth 2.8 mm in diameter, the segments 6, 

 equal, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 1.2 mm long. Disk 

 glands 6, prominent. Filaments 3, about 1 mm long, free, the 

 anthers dehiscing vertically, 0.2 mm long. Pistillate flowers 

 axillary, mostly solitary, their pedicels in fruit up to 12 mm long, 

 the perianth similar to that of the staminate flowers. Styles 

 6, free, 1 mm long. Fruit globose, about 4 mm in diameter, 

 composed of three dehiscent cocci. • 



Panay, Capiz Province, Mount Bulilao, Bur. Sci. 35655, 35679 

 Martelino & Edano, June 20, 1919, in forests near the summit, 

 altitude about 650 meters. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with Phyllanthus 

 loMcifolius, Merr., from which it is especially distinguished by 

 its smaller leaves, its pubescent branchlets, and much shorter 

 pedicels of the pistillate flowers. 



PHYLLANTHUS APICULATUS sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber, ramis ultimis circiter 7 mm diametro, cicatrici- 

 bus magnis instructis, ramulis confertis, tenuibus, usque ad 40 cm 

 longis; foliis numerosis, chartaceis, nitidis, oblongo-ellipticis, 



3 ad 4.5 cm longis, basi acutis, apice acuminatis et plerumque 

 apiculatis; floribus fasciculatis, breviter pedicellatis, circiter 4 

 mm diametro, segmentis 6, elliptico-oblongis, 1.8 ad 2 mm longis, 

 staminibus 3, filamentis liberis, antheris verticaliter dehiscen- 

 tibus. ♦ 



A glabrous shrub, the ultimate branches terete, about 7 mm 

 in diameter, marked with large scars, these subtended by several 

 small, broadly ovate, stipule-like bracts, the tip and uppermost 

 axils supplied with small, dense rosettes of oblong-lanceolate, 



