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3. A. ghaesembilla Gaertii.; Miiell. Arg. 1. c. 251. 
(1783, 2333 Borden) August, December; (2245 Meyer) December. Iii thickets 
below 75 m., widely distributed in the Philippines. Tropical Asia, Africa, and 
Malaya. T., Bignay pogo. 
4. A. leptocladum Tub; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 253. 
(728, 2058, 3034 Borden) May, October; (Gl‘25 Leiherg) July; {131G Whit ford) 
.June; (2498 Merrill) June. In forests and thickets 30 to 250 m. Malaya. T., 
Bignay. 
5. Antidesma lucidum Merrill, sp. nov. 
A small tree 6 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 
when 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- 
laiy 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 oi- three togather. Calyx glabrous, cup shaped, obscurely 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) Febniaiy; (1135 Whitford) March; (7005 Elmer) No- 
vember. In forests 700 to 900 m. A species in vegetative characters similar to 
Antidesma rostratum Tub, diflering from that species, and from A. leptocladum. 
and A. pleuricum in being quite glabrous. 4 
10. BISCHOFIA Blume. 
1. B. trifoliata (Eoxb.) Hook. f. B. javanica Blume; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 478. 
(65 Barnes) November; {Whitford) .June; (3 Merrill) Decades Pliilip. Forest 
Flora, coll. Barnes, December. In forests along streams 75 to 200 m., widely dis- 
tributed in the Philippines. Tropical Asia to Malaya and Polynesia. T., Tuay. 
11. BRI DELIA Willd. 
1. B. stipularis (Linn.) Blume; IMuell. Arg. 1. c. 499. 
(2023 Borden) October; (3139 Merrill) October; (6769 Elmer) November; 
(92 Whitford) April. In thickets below 100 m., abundant, widely distributed 
in the Philippines. Tropical Asia and Africa to Malaya. T., Luhalub. 
2. B. tomentosa Blume, var. lancasfolia (Roxb.) Muell. Arg. 1. e. 502. 
(2262 Meyer) December; (6754 Elmer) November; (1405, 1916, 2346 Borden) 
.July, September, .January; (3087 Merrill) October. In thickets below 100 m., 
widely distributed in the Pliilippines. Timor. T., Argai. 
12. CROTON Linn. 
1. C. consanguineus Muell. Arg. 1. c. 619. 
(2637, 2814 Meyer) February, Alarch. In forests 550 to 900 m. Endemic. 
2. C. leiophyllus Muell. Arg. 1. c. 573. 
(1433, 1467 Ahern’s collector) .July. August; (2543 Borden) February; (2298 
Meyer) December. In thickets near the seashore. Endemic. 
