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3. A. ghsesembilla (.iacrtii. ; Mucll. Arg. 1. c. 251. 



(ITS.}. 2.!;^."5 Jiurdcn) August, December: (2245 Meyer) December. In tliickets 

 l)elo\v 75 ni., widely distributed in the Pliilippincs. 'J'ropical Asia. Africa, and 

 Malaya. T.. Bi(/)un/ pogo. 



4. A. leptocladum TuL; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 253. 



(7 2S, 205S, 'MU Borden) May, October; (6125 Leiberg) July; (1310 Wliitford) 

 Jime; (2498 Merrill) June. In forests and thickets 30 to 250 m. Malaya. T., 

 Bignay. 



5. Antidesma lucidum Mririll, sp. nov. 



A small tree G to 9 m. high, glabrous throughout. Branches brown or grayish, 

 slender, glabrous. Leaves alternate, elliptical ovate to oblong ovate, subcoria- 

 ceous, glabrous, shining on both surfaces, usually dark above and paler beneath 

 wlien dry, 4 to 9 cm. long, 1.5 to 4 cm. wide, entire, the base acute, the apex 

 broadly blunt acuminate, the acumen blunt, apiculate or retuse; nerves 5 to 6 

 on each side of the midrib, distant, anastomosing, the reticulations very lax; 

 petioles glabrous, 3 to 5 mm. long; stipules small, deciduous. Inflorescence axil- 

 lary and terminal, glabrous, slender, spicate, or the spikes in few-branched 

 panicles 6 cm. long or less. Male flowers sessile or nearly so, scattered, each 

 subtended by a small acute bract less than 0.5 mm. long, usually .solitary or 

 rarely two or three togather. Calyx glabrous, cup shaped, obscurelj' 4 or 5 

 toothed or subtruncate. Stamens 4 to 5 in flowers on the same plant ; filaments 

 1.6 mm. long, the anthers cells 0.4 mm. long, the disk fleshy, thickened. Fruit 

 red when mature, wrinkled when dry, somewhat compressed, glabrous, ovoid, 

 6 to 7 mm. long, the persistent style small, terminal. 



(2642, 2775 Meyer) February; (1135 Whiiford) March; (7005 Elmer) No- 

 vember. In forests 700 to 900 m. A species in vegetative characters similar to 

 Antidesma rostrainm TuL, differing from that species, and from A. leptocJndum, 

 and A. plcuricum. in being quite glabrous. 



10. BISCHOFIA I'.lunie. 



1. B. trifoliata (Roxb.) Hook. f. B. javanica Blume; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 478. 

 (05 Barnes) November; (Whitford) June; (3 Merrill) Decades Philip. Forest 

 Flora, coll. Barnes, December. In forests along streams 75 to 200 m., widely dis- 



triltulcd in (lie Pliilipijiiics. Tropical Asia to Malaya and Polynesia. T.. Tnay. 



11. BRIDELIA Willd. 



1. B. stipularis (Linn.) Blunic; ^luell. Arg. 1. c. 499. 



(2023 Borden) October; (3139 Merrill) October; (6709 Elmer) November; 

 (92 Whitford) April. In thickets below 100 m., abundant, widely distributed 

 in the Philippines. Tropical Asia and Africa to Malaya. T., Lubalub. 



2. B. tomentosa P.Iuine, var. lancaefolia (Roxb.) Muell. Arg. 1. c. 502. 



(2202 Meyer) Dcceml)er; (6754 Elmer) November; (1405, 1910, 2346 Borden) 

 July, September, January; (3087 Merrill) October. In thickets below 100 in., 

 widely distributed in llio Philippines. Timor. T., Argai. 



12. CROTON Linn. 



1. C. consanguineus Muell. Arg. I. c (il".i. 



(2037, 2S14 M'l/vr) February. Miiicli. in forests 550 to 900 m. Endemic. 



2. C. leiophyllus .Muell. Arg. 1. c. 573. 



(1433, ]4t>7 A}irr)i's eollrctor) July. August ; {254^^ Borden) February; (2298 

 Meyer) December. In tliickets near the seashore. Fndeniic. 



