542 Philippine Journal of Science 1920 



5, tenuibus; floribus $ perianthii segmentis oblongo-ellipticis, 

 obtusis, usque ad 3 mm longis, antheris 3; floribus $ breviter 

 pedicellatis, $ simillimis, ovario glabro, stylis continuis, cylin- 

 draceis, baud constrictis. 



A small glabrous tree or the younger parts very slightly pu- 

 bescent, the branches dark-colored when dry, lenticellate, the 

 branchlets slender, reddish-brown. Leaves oblong-elliptic, char- 

 taceous, 2 to 3 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, the apex rounded, base 

 broadly acute or somewhat rounded, nearly equilateral; lateral 

 nerves about 5 on each side of the midrib, slender, the reticu- 

 lations indistinct; petioles 2 to 3 mm long; stipules lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 1.5 to 2 mm long. Flowers axillary, fascicled, the 

 staminate ones with pedicels up to 9 mm in length, the perianth 

 segments oblong-elliptic, obtuse, up to 3 mm long, anthers 3, 

 about 1 mm long, united. Pistillate flowers with pedicels about 

 2 mm long, the perianth segments similar to those of the stam- 

 inate flowers. Ovary and style about 2 mm long, cylindric, 

 glabrous, the latter about as thick as the ovary and not at all 

 constricted. 



Luzon, Batangas Province, Mount Batulao, Bur. Set. 22358 

 Ramos, July 30, 1914, on dry slopes, altitude about 190 meters. 



This species is apparently most closely allied to Glochidion 

 breynioides C. B. Rob., from which it is easily distinguishable 

 by its rounded or obtuse leaves. 



GLOCHIDION FALCATILIMBUM sp. nov. § Hemiglochidion. 



Frutex glaber, circiter 2 m altus ; f oliis subcoriaceis, falcatis, 

 valde inaequilateralibus, oblongis, usque ad 5 cm longis, apice 

 obtusis vel rotundatis, basi acutis vel acuminatis, nervis utrin- 

 que circiter 8, tenuibus ; floribus 9 , segmentis 6, oblongo-obo- 

 vatis ad oblongo-spatulatis, 2 ad 2.5 mm longis; ovario glabro, 

 columno stylari quam ovario duplo longioribus, continuo; sta~ 

 minibus, 3. 



A glabrous shrub about 2 m high, the branches brownish, the 

 branchlets slender, reddish-brown. Leaves subcoriaceous, oblong, 

 conspicuously falcate and very inequilateral, 4 to 5 cm long, 

 1 to 2 cm wide, rather pale and slightly shining when dry, the 

 lower surface often slightly glaucous, the apex obtuse to rounded, 

 the base acute to acuminate, one side very much narrower than 

 the other ; primary lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the mid- 

 rib, slender, not prominent; petioles about 3 mm long; stipules 

 lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, falcate, 2 to 2.5 mm 

 long. Flowers axillary, one or two in each axil opening at the 



