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4. P. reticuiatus Poir.; Muell. Arg. I. e. 344. 
(6702 Elmer) November; (2715 Borden) February, lii thickets below 100 m. 
Tropical Asia ami Malaya. 
5. P. stipularis Merrill -sp. nov. 
A small shrub or uudershrub 1 to 2 lu. high. Branches brown, more or less 
furfuraceous ferruginous pubescent. Leaves alternate, ol>long ovate, 4 to 9 cm. 
long, 1 to 2.5 cm. wide, narrowed above to the sharply acute or slightly 
acuminate apex, the base inequilateral, rather abruptly acute, glabrous and dark 
above when dry, white or pale beneath and very slightly furfuraceous pubescent, 
membranous; nerves 5 to 6 on each side of the midrib, distant, indistinct, the 
reticulations obsolete or nearly so; petioles 2 to 3 mm. long, somewhat fur- 
furaceous; stipules linear, persistent, slightly furfuraceous, 5 to 8 mm. long. 
(Male flowers fascicled, red, 5 to 6 or more in each axil, the pedicels slender, 5 mm, 
long or less. Calyx glabrous the sepals 4, free, ovate-lanceolate, acute or bhmt, 
2.5 to 3 mm. long, about 1.5 nun. wide, the margins slightly irregularly crenate. 
Disk scales free, thick, fleshy, truncate, often nearly 1 mm. long. Stamens 4, the 
filaments united, very short or the anthers sessile, the anther cells 4, horizontal, 
their tips contiguous but not confluent. Kudimentary ovary 0. Female flowers 
solitary in the upper axils, long pedieelled. Sepals 6, imbricate, in 2 series, 
ovate lanceolate, acute, 2 to 2.3 nun. long, 1 to 1.3 mm. wide. Disk scales similar 
to the males. Ovary subglobose, about 1 mm. in diameter, 0 ridged, 3 celled, eacli 
cell 2 ovulod; styles 0, stout, about 0.3 mm. long, bifid or cleft at the apex. F'ruit 
red, glabrous, subglobose, dehiscent, about 1.5 cm. in diameter, dry, the sepals 
persistent, somewhat accrescent. 
(282, 1102 Whitford) May, Februaiy; (2841 Meyer) March; (2087 Borden) 
Noveinher ; (Copeland) January; (6804 Elmer) November. On exposed ridges 
in the mossy forest above 1,100 m. 
4. GLOCHIDION Foist. 
1. G. album (Blanco) Boerl. Phyllanthus albus Blanco; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 306. 
3162, 3797, 3873 Merrill) January, October, August; (1765 Borden) August; 
(127 Barnes) January; (33 Whitford) April; (6663 Elmer) November; (2224, 
2818 Meyer) December, March. In forests 100 to 500 M. Celebes. 
2. G. littorale Blume. Phyllanthus litioralis Muell. Arg. 1. c. 280. 
(1270 Whitford) May. On bluffs at the seashore. Malaya to British India. 
3. G. Ilanosi Muell. Arg. Phyllanthus llanosi Muell. Arg. 1. c. 308. . 
(2289 Meyer) December; (6800 Elmer) November; (1774 Borden) August; 
(3131 Me7-rill) October. In open forests 100 to 250 in. Endemic. T., Banitan, 
Talicud. 
4. G. sp. 
(1172, 1327 Whitford) March, May. On exposed ridges in the mossy forest 
above 1,000 in. 
5. G. sp. 
(6100 Leihery) July; (1427 Ahern’s collector) July. In thickets below 50 in. 
6. G. sp. 
(2710 Borden) February. In thickets near the seashore. 
5. BREYNIA Forst. 
1. B. cernua Muell. Arg. 1. c. 439. 
(391 Whitford) June; (1357, 1000 Borden) July, August; (534 Topping) May. 
In thickets and fore.sts from near the sea level to 700 in. Malaya. T., Matang 
olang. 
