16.6 Merrill: Philippine Euphorbiaceae, III 541 



acuminate scales ; branchlets crowded toward the tips of primary 

 ones, slender, up to 40 cm in length, somewhat simulating pin- 

 nate leaves, 2 mm in diameter or less, terete or somewhat an- 

 gular near the nodes, the apical portion distinctly angular. 

 Leaves numerous, chartaceous, the upper surface dark brown 

 and shining when dry, the lower paler, oblong-elliptic, 3 to 4.5 

 cm long, 1.3 to 2 cm wide, subequilateral, narrowed to the acute 

 base and to the distinctly acuminate and often apiculate apex; 

 lateral nerves slender, about 9 on each side of the midrib, anas- 

 tomosing, the reticulations rather close, distinct; petioles 2 mm 

 long or less; stipules lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 about 3 mm long. Staminate flowers axillary, fascicled, their 

 pedicels about 5 mm long, the perianth about 4 mm in diameter, 

 the lobes 6, equal, elliptic-oblong, rounded or obtuse, 1.8 to 2 

 mm long. Disk glands 6, globose, conspicuous. Stamens 3, 

 their filaments erect, free, 1.5 mm long, the anthers longitudinal- 

 ly dehiscing, 0.5 mm long. 



Luzon, Camarines Province, Paracale, Bur. Set. 33813 Ramos 

 & Edano, November 29, 1919, in damp forests at low altitudes, 

 indicated by the collectors as 2 meters high. 



This species may be as closely allied to Phyllanthus securine- 

 goides Merr. as to any other species, although it is radically 

 different from the latter in its somewhat thickened ultimate 

 branches bearing the elongated, slender branchlets more or less 

 crowded at the apices. 



PHYLLANTHUS INDICUS (Dalz.) Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1863) 52, 

 DC. Prodr. 16=" (1866) 417. 

 Prosorus indicus Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. 4 (1852) 346. 



Luzon, Camarines Province, Mapid, For, Bur. 22655 Alvarez, 

 November, 1911. Palawan, Aborlan, Bur. Sci. 15589 Fenix, 

 July, 1912. Mindanao, Agusan Province, Tipgon River, Weber 

 1195, July, 1911, with the Visayan name bungas. In forests 

 and thickets at low altitudes. 



The numbers cited are all in fruit, but they agree perfectly 

 with a full series of Javan specimens representing this species. 

 It has not previously been reported from the Philippines. India 

 and Ceylon to Java. 



GLOCHIDION Forster 

 GLOCHIDION PHYLLANTHOIDES sp. nov. § Hemiglochidion. 



Arbor parva, glabra, vel partibus junioribus leviter pubescens; 

 foliis oblongo-ellipticis, chartaceis, 2 ad 3 cm longis, apice ro- 

 tundatis, basi acutis vel leviter rotundatis, nervis utrinque circiter 



