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This species belongs in the group with Claoxylon longifolium 

 Miq. and C. subviride Elm. and is distinctly more closely allied 

 to the latter, from which it differs in its very minutely glandular- 

 serrulate leaves, eglandular petioles and much fewer stamens. 

 In this connection I am of the opinion that all of the Philippine 

 specimens referred by Pax to C. longifolium are referable to 

 C. subviride on account of their short inflorescences and their 

 biglandular petioles. 



BLUMEODENDRON (Muell.-Arg.) Kurz 



This group was first' characterized by Muell.-Arg. in 1866 as 

 a subgenus of Mallotiis, and raised by Kurz to generic rank in 

 1873, although Bentham and Hooker f. retained it as a subgenus 

 of Mallotus as originally placed by Mueller. The type is 

 the Javan species originally described by Blume as Elaterio- 

 spermum tokbrai Blume. J. J. Smith - has justly reinstated the 

 group as of generic rank, in which he has been followed by 

 Pax.^ The two known Malayan species are Blumeodendron tok- 

 brai (Blume) Kurz (quoad syn. Blume) and B. kurzii (Hook, 

 f.) J. J. Sm. ; the former known from Java and Borneo, the 

 latter from Tenasserim, the Andaman Islands, Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, and Java. ■ Blumeode7idron kurzii J. J. Sm. is the 

 form thought by Kurz to represent Elateriospermum tokbrai 

 Blume, and which was later redescribed by Hooker f . as Mallotus 

 kurzii. To this genus in 1912 I referred the Philippine species 

 described two years earlier by Mr. Elmer as Sapium rotundi- 

 folium. 



In a note prepared at Kew and supplied to me in 1911 by the 

 late Dr. C. B. Robinson he indicates that both he and Mr. R. A. 

 Rolfe were of the opinion that the Kew material from the Indo- 

 Malayan region then available represented at least four distinct 

 species. In the Philippines I find the genus to be represented 

 by at least five distinct species, and possibly by seven, as a 

 sterile specimen from Leyte is somewhat different from the 

 forms enumerated below, while two fruiting specimens from 

 Basilan, Bur. Sci. 16138 Reillo and For. Bur. 18906 Miranda 

 can scarcely be referred to described species. The genus Blu- 

 meodendron is then considerably larger than the current litera- 

 ture would indicate. 



'Meded. Dept. Landbouw 10 (1910) 460. 

 'Engl. Pflanzenreich 63 (1914) 47. 



