VIII, C, 6 
Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae 
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lanceolate or somewhat oblanceolate, firmly chartaceous, shining, 
6 to 12 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, entire, apex acuminate, base 
obtuse or somewhat acute; lateral nerves 7 or 8 on each side 
of the midrib, distinct; petioles mostly about 5 mm long, rarely 
reaching 1.5 cm in length. Racemes axillary, solitary, slender, 
few-flowered, shorter than the leaves, sometimes about as long 
as the smaller leaves, very few-flowered, the flowers distant. 
Male flov/ers: Pedicels slender, about 4 mm long, the bracteoles 
lanceolate, acuminate, about 1.2 mm long. Sepals pink, 5, im- 
bricate, membranaceous, glabrous, narrowly ovate to narrowly 
elliptic-obovate, obtuse or rounded, 1.5 to 2.5 mm long. Petals 
very dark-purple, almost black, glabrous, oblong to narrowly 
oblong-obovate, about 5 mm long, 1.8 mm wide, apex rounded 
or often deeply and obliquely retuse. Disk-glands 5, prominent, 
hemispheric, white, 0.5 mm in diameter. United filaments 1.5 
mm long ; anthers 3, 0.8 mm long. Female flowers borne on the 
same racemes as the male, fewer, 5-merous their pedicels, just 
after anthesis, very much thickened, 4 to 5 mm long, 1.5 to 2 
mm thick. Sepals unequal, 2 oblong-ovate, 3 mm long, 3 oblong- 
lanceolate, 4.5 mm long, slightly appressed-pubescent. Ovary 
sparingly pubescent, 3-celled; styles cleft to the base, the arms 
1.8 mm long. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel 186, June 19, 1913, in forests. 
A very characteristic species, in vegetative characters somewhat resem- 
bling small-leaved forms of Dimorphocalyx longipes Merr. The structure 
of its male flowers is that of typical Trigonostemon, however. By the key 
given by Pax in his recent monograph of this group, it falls next to Trigo- 
nostemon villosus Hook, f., of the Malay Peninsulata, to which it is not at 
all closely allied. 
GLOCHIDION Forster 
GLOCHiDION GLAUCESCENS sp. nov. (§ Hemiglochidion.) 
Arbor circiter 5 m alta; foliis coriaceis, ovatis ad oblongo- 
ovatis, usque ad 27 cm longis, 13 cm latis, apice acutis vel obtusis, 
basi late rotundatis cordatisque, brevissime petiolatis, in siccitate 
pallidis, subtus glaucescens, utrinque, praesertim subtus, plus 
minusve hirsutis; floribus axillaribus, fasciculatis, pedicellatis, 
segmentis 6, ovario hirsute, columna stylari cylindrica, continua, 
hirsuta, ovario subaequilonga, leviter angustiore; capsulis sub- 
globosis, circiter 1.4 cm diametro, 8-locellato. 
A small tree, about 5 m high. Branches terete, the ultimate 
branchlets elongated, somewhat compressed or angular when dry, 
rather densely pubescent. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, coria- 
ceous, 20 to 27 cm long, 10 to 13 cm wide, the apex acute or 
