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shorter than wide ; stylar column cylindric, entire, not contracted 

 at the base, nearly as wide as the ovary, pubescent, about 1 

 mm long and wide, truncate, hollow. 



Panay, Capiz Province, Jamindan, Bur. Sci. 3137^ Ramos & 

 Edano, May 22, 1918, in forests along small streams. 



In leaf venation this species resembles Glochidion dolicho- 

 stylum Merr. but differs radically from that species in its longer, 

 slenderly acuminate, more numerously nerved, glabrous leaves, 

 and is entirely different in its floral characters. 



GLOCHIDION HUMILE sp. nov. § Hemiglochidion. 



Frutex parvus, ramis usque ad 30 cm longis e radicibus in- 

 crassatis ; f oliis ellipticis, subcoriaceis, 4 ad 10 cm longis, utrin- 

 que plerumque rotundatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, cum reti- 

 culis perspicuis, subtus ad costa nervisque pubescens; floribus 

 fasciculatis, $ tenuiter pedicellatis, perianthii segmentis ellip- 

 ticis, 3 mm longis, exterioribus pubescens ; staminibus 3 ; floribus 

 9 breviter pedicellatis, pubescens, ovario pubescente, columna 

 stylari pubescente, quam ovario duplo longiore, cylindrica, sur- 

 sum leviter angustata, basi baud constricta. 



A shrub or undershrub consisting of short, simple branches 

 produced from the much-thickened roots, these branches varying 

 in length from 7 to 30 cm, slender, terete, up to 3 mm in diameter, 

 the older ones glabrous, the younger parts pubescent. Leaves 

 elliptic to somewhat oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, 4 to 10 cm 

 long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, base rounded, apex usually rounded, some- 

 times obtuse, the upper surface glabrous or nearly so, usually 

 pale when dry, the lower surface distinctly pubescent on the 

 midrib, nerves, and reticulations; lateral nerves about 6 on each 

 side of the midrib, distinct, the reticulations lax, evident. Male 

 and female flowers fascicled, mostly in separate axils, male 

 flowers with pedicels up to 11 mm long, slightly pubescent, the 

 outer three perianth-segments elliptic, obtuse, about 3 mm long, 

 somewhat pubescent, the inner three somewhat smaller, glabrous 

 or slightly pubescent on the medium portion. Stamens 3, the 

 staminal mass cylindric, about 1.5 mm long. Female flowers 

 with pedicels about 3 mm long, pubescent. Sepals oblong to nar- 

 rowly oblong, obtuse, pubescent, 2 mm long. Ovary and style 

 pubescent, the styles forming an almost entire or slightly lobed 

 column which is nearly as broad as the ovary, not at all con- 

 stricted at the base, slightly narrowed upward, and about twice 

 as long as the ovary. Capsules usually about 8-celled, depressed- 

 globose, prominently sulcate, about 1.3 cm in diameter, brown 

 when dry, sparingly pubescent with short hairs. 



