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same time, their pedicels 2 to 3 mm long. Pistillate perianth seg- 

 ments 6, oblong-obovate to oblong-spatulate, 2 to 2.5 mm long, ob- 

 tuse. Ovary about 1 mm high, glabrous, the style cylindric, 

 not constricted below, continuous with and as wide as the ovary, 

 about 1.8 mm long and 1.2 mm in diameter. Staminate flowers 

 few, their anthers 3, about 1 mm long. Fruits depressed- 

 globose, about 8 mm in diameter, obscurely sulcate, usually 

 3-celled, 6-seeded. 



Luzon, Pangasinan Province, Mount San Isidro, Labrador, 

 Bur. Sci. 30059 Fenix, November 13, 1917, on grassy and rocky 

 slopes, altitude about 60 meters, with the Pampangan name 

 malapalin. 



A species well characterized by its small, strongly inequila- 

 teral, obtuse, falcate, pale leaves. In appearance it more nearly 

 resembles Glochidion triandrum (Blanco) C. B. Rob. than any 

 other Philippine species, but differs totally from that form in 

 its style characters. 



GLOCHIDION BRACHYSTYLUM sp. nov. § Hemiglochidion. 



Frutex vel arbor parva, monoica, ramis hirsutis, valde elon- 

 gatis; foliis chartaceis, oblongis, tenuiter acuminatis, glabris, 

 usque ad 25 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, supra impres- 

 sis, subtus valde prominulis, floribus $ longe et tenuiter pedi- 

 cellatis, sepalis oblongis, 3 mm longis, $ breviter pedicellatis, 

 perianthii segmentis recurvatis, utrinque hirsutis; ovario pu- 

 bescente, columna stylari crassa cylindrica, pubescens, circiter 

 1 mm diametro, truncata, quam ovario paullo longioribus. 



A shrub or small tree, the ultimate branches greatly elongated, 

 spreading-hirsute with short, stiff, dark-brown hairs. Leaves 

 chartaceous, oblong, slenderly acuminate, base rounded to sub- 

 acute, 20 to 25 cm long, 7 to 8 cm wide, brownish-olivaceous and 

 shining when dry ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the mid- 

 rib, impressed on the upper surface, very prominent on the lower 

 surface, curved, anastomosing, the reticulations lax, prominent; 

 petioles about 5 mm long. Staminate flowers up to 25 in a fas- 

 cicle, their pedicels slender, sparingly spreading-hirsute, 10 to 

 12 mm long. Perianth segments oblong, 3 mm long, glabrous or 

 the outer ones with a very few, short, spreading hairs. Anthers 

 3, united, about 1 mm long. Pistillate flowers axillary, fascicled, 

 on the more distal parts of the same branches bearing the stami- 

 nate ones, 5 to 20 in a fascicle, their pedicels hirsute, about 2 mm 

 long. Perianth segments oblong, recurved, 3 mm long, spread- 

 ing-hirsute on both surfaces. Ovary pubescent, about 10-celled. 



