151 
Basilan Island, W’. Z. carries For. Bur. no. 3443. Palaw 
Island; Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Mar. 1911, Elaner 12858. 
Silanga, May 1918, Merrill 9603. 
In Luzon the vernacular name “ Cuyos cuyos.”” Mr. H 
Ridley informs me that the feves “of this plant in ii Peninsula 
are gilded over by the Tamils and used as a substitute for holly 
at Christmas; the wood is used for walking-sticks, and is so hard 
and heavy that it sinks in water. 
6. T. laxiflora, Hutchinson, sp. nov.. 
Arbor parva dioica, frequenter spinosa; rami flexuosi, juniores 
laxe foliati, puberuli. Folia ilicina, obovate vel obovato- 
lon a, 23:5 cm. lata, acute spinoso-dentata, ere chartacea, 
sicco cinerea, glabra ; costa media supra angusta, prominula, infra 
prominens, straminea; nervi laterales utrinsecus 7-8, gracillimi, 
ilis, 
longus, hispidulus. Flores subsessiles albi. Perianthir seg- 
spe oblongo- —iiiioliek, acuta, fere glabra. Flores 9 ignoti. 
po-Curna. Tonkin: near Tu-phap, in the woods, Apr. 1888, 
Didone 2481, 2482. 
. T. Balansae, Hutchinson, sp. nov. 
is bor 7-8 m. alta; rami laxe foliati, sicco flavo-virides, glabri 1, 
profunde sule ati. Folia phish gecaltioticn vel obovato-elliptica, 
ong ities rotundata et leviter inaequilatera, apice in caudam 
3 subacutam integrum abrupte vel subsensim 
nervis tertiariis et venis infra laxis; petioli 5-8 mm. longi, inter- 
dum verruculosi. Inflorescentia 6 spicata, ae gracilis, 
on 
2 juniores non visi. ‘Perianthii fructifert segmenta " eoriaces, 
rotundata, usque ad 1 cm. longa. Fructus glaber, oblique 
obovoideus, ‘gts bilobato erecto coronatus; pedicelli usque ad 
1 cm. longi. 
po-Cuina. Tonkin: forests of the Lankok ae Mar. 4, 
1885, ae Balansa 2477; near the Thuang-Lam, May 2, 1888, g, 
Balansa 2478; in the woods at Pa-phip, 3 May 1887, Q, Balansa 
2479. 
Species imperfecte cognita. 
T. macrophylla, Boerl. Hand. Fl. Ned. Ind. iii. 359 
(1900) : pig Exkurs.-Fl. = ii. 87 (in obs.). —Streblus 
macrophyllus, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 80 (1856); ss 
Fl. Ind. Bat. i., pars. ii. 278 oy Diplocos macrophyl 
Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 216 (1873) 
