PLANTS FROM BATANES AND BABUYANES ISLANDS. 415 



A small tree G to T m liigb, glabrous throug-hout. Branches gray, 

 terete, the branchlets reddish-broM'n, slender, the tips more or less angled. 

 Leaves ol)long-ovate, submembranoiis, 10 to Ki cm long, 5 to 6 mm 

 wide, the base rather broad, inequilateral, roiinded, narrowed upwards, 

 the apex rather long and slenderly acuminate, shining, the lower surface 

 slightly paler than the upper; nerves 6 or 7 on each side of the midrib, 

 curved-ascending, obscurely anastomosing, rather distinct beneath; 

 petioles 4 mm long or less. Flowers axillary, fascicled, pedicellate. 

 tSepals 5, imbricate, ovate, 1.5 mm long. Stamens 5, the anthers erect, 

 apiculate, 1.2 mm long, connate. Pistillate flowers 6-merous. Calyx 

 segments 6, ovate, slightly acuminate, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 

 depressed at the apex, the stylar column 6-fid, obscurely lobulate, 0.4 

 mm long, wider than long and inserted in the depressed apex of the 

 ovary. Fruit yellowish, glabrous, depressed-globose, about 5 mm in 

 diameter, with 10, very obscure, rounded ridges. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. Sci. 3696 Fcnix, June 1, 1907. N. v., 

 Annam. 



Apparently most closely allied to (llochidion aniutfianurn Muell. Arg., of 

 southern China and Hongkong, but with quite different vegetative characters. 



FLUGGEA Willd. 



F. virosa (Roxb.) Baill. {F. oborata Wall.) 



CAMiGtUN, JfOll Fenix. 



Widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia, Africa, Malaya, and 

 Australia. 



BREYNIA Forst. 



B. cernua Muell. Arg. 



Camiguix, .]907 Fcnix. Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3718 Fenix. N. v., 

 Aiitimantinid. 



Widely distributed in the Philippines; Malaya. 



CYCLOSTEMON Blume. 



Cyclostemon falcatus sp. nov. § Eiicycloslcnioyi f 



Arbor parva, fructibus exccptis glabra; ramis ramulisque griseis, 

 teretibus; foliis coriaceis, nitidis, oblongis vel oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 

 10 cm longis, valde inaequilateralibus, falcatis, basi acutis, apice obtusis 

 vel rotundatis, margine integris; floribus femineis axillaribus, solitariis, 

 pedicellatis ; fructibus 1 ad 1.5 cm longis, ovoideis, pubescentibus, 2-locu- 

 laribus, exocarpio coriaceo. 



A small tree or shrul) 3 to 5 m high, glabrous except the fruits. 

 Branches and branchlets pale-gray, terete. Leaves alternate, ol)long or 

 oblong-ovate, (i to 10 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, coriaceous, shining, 

 entire, very strongly inequilateral, falcate, the apex obtuse or rounded, 

 the base inequilateral, acute; nerves 7 or S on each side of the midrib, 

 distant, irregular, anastomosing, scarcely more distinct than are the 

 secondary ones and reticulations, the reticulations obscure above, distinct 



