416 MERRILL. 



beneath; petioles stout, about 5 mm long. Flowers unknown. Fruit 

 axillary, solitary, pedicelled, the pedicels 5 to 7 mm long, subtended at 

 the base by several small, pale bracts, the fruits ovoid, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 

 obtuse, gray or brownish, with numerous somewhat appressed short hairs, 

 the pericarp coriaceous, 3-celled, each cell with two ovules. 



C'amiguin, Bur. 8ci. 4033 F^nix, June 22, 1907, along the seashore. 



A species well characterized by its 2-celled ovary and very strongly inequilat- 

 eral, falcate, obtuse leaves. The genus is well developed in the Philippines, with 

 6 or 7 species, but no representative is known from Formosa or southern China. 



ANTIDESMA Linn. 



A. lobbianum Mucll. Arg. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3656 Fenix. Camiguin, 3996 F4nix. 



Widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 



A. cumingii Muell. Arg. 

 Camiguin, 4079 Fenix. 



Widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. A. membranaefolium Elm., 

 recently described, is quite the same. 



CLEISTANTHUS Hook. 



C. ovatus C. B. Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 194. 

 Camiguix, J/OSl Fenix, (type). 



Known only from this one collection. This genus has about 13 representatives 

 in the Philippines, but none are knovpn from southern China or Formosa. 



CLAOXYLON Juss. 



C. rubescens Miq., var. meyenianum Muell. Arg. 

 Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3639 Fenix. 



The species widely distributed in the Malayan region, the variety known only 

 from the Philippines where it is common and widely distributed. 



M ALLOT US Lour. 



M. leucocalyx Muell. Arg. 

 Camiguin, J/O-'/y Finix. 



Known only from the Philippines, the above specimen agreeing in all essential 

 characters with typical material from Mindanao. 



M. moluccanus Muell. Arg. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3114 F&nix. N. v., Ajcm. 

 Very common and widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia to For- 

 mosa and Malaya. 



M. philippinensis (Lam.) Muell. Arg. 

 Camiguin, 4112 F6nix. 



Very common and widely distrihutcd in tlic Philippines; tropical Asia to For- 

 mosa, Malaya, northern Australia and eastern Polynesia. 



M. piayfairii Hems). 



Camiguin, 4()24 Ffnix. 



Luzon; Formosa and northern Borneo. 



