PHILIPPINE PHYLLANTHINiE. 
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glandulis conspicuis vel perianthio coalitis, filamentis connatis, antheris 
3, horizontalibiis ; perianthio femineo 6-partito, 4-5 mm longo, ovario 
valde depresso, apice truncato, stylis 3, marginalibus, cito bilobatis : 
ramulis levissime angulatis; foliis breviter petiolatis, lanceolatis, oblongo- 
lanceolatis vel ellipticis, apice brevissime acmninatis. 
Flowers axillary, solitary or perhaps sometimes paired, scattered along 
the branchlets, those of both sexes borne on pedicels 8-10 mm long and 
slightly dilated upward: male perianth subrotate, 2.5-3 mm long, the 
margin forming lobes for a depth of about 0.5 mm only, the lobes broad, 
rounded, truncate, or usually somewhat refuse; disk-glands 6, opposite 
the perianth-lobes, oblong-orbicular, about 1 mm in diameter, very con- 
spicuous or more or less coalesced with the perianth; filaments united, 
0.3 mm long, anthers 3, horizontal, extrorse, 0.5 mm long: female 
perianth cut almost to the extreme base into 6 oblanc-eolate segments, 
4-5 mm long, rounded at the apex, contracted at the base; no glands 
seen ; ovary very shortly stalked, 1 mm in diameter, in cross-section 
rounded-triangular, strongly depressed, the apex truncate and disk-like, 
styles 3, projecting from the margins of the ovary, at once divided into 
2 fleshy lobes, the latter widely spreading and more or less outwardly 
recurved, about 0.7 mm long, the apices entire or rarely slightly 3-lobed: 
fruiting perianth hardly increased, fruit succulent, red, about 1 cm in 
diameter. 
Described by the collector as a vine, and appearing to lie so : branches 
and branchlets yellowish, the latter slender and slightly angled : leaves 
borne on petioles about 2 mm long, the lamina membranaceous, lanceolate, 
oblong-lanceolate, or elliptic, 2-3.5 cm long, 1-1.7 cm wide, the base 
rounded or acute, the apex forming a very short acumen, which is obtuse 
> or sometimes mucronate, described as very dark in color, apparently 
glaucous on the under surface ; stipules persistent, lanceolate, about 1 mm 
long. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Lamao River, For. Bur. 193i \ 
Borden, growing as a vine upon Pitliecolobium scutiferum (Blanco) Benth., at an 
elevation of 300 m, and apparently rare. 
Very similar in many ways to S. brevipes Muell-Arg., but that species lias 
racemed flowers. Apparently very distinct in its habit. 
2. SECURINEGA Commerson. 
1. Securinega acum inatissima comb. nov. 
Phyllanthus. acuminatissimus C. B. Robinson in Philip. Jour. Sci. 3 (1908) 
Bot. 200. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Atimonan, Whitford 676: Province of Camarines, 
Ragay, For. Bur. 10788 Curran ; Pasacao, Ahern 280. Cebu, Toledo, Bur. Sci. 
1739 McGregor. Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Surigao, Ahern 351; Gibon 
River, north of Las Navas, For. Bur. 7569 Hutchinson: Rio Grande Valley, 
Sabacon, For. Bur. 65 44 Hutchinson: District of Davao, Santa Cruz, Williams 
2706, 2807. 
This species is not a Phyllanthus, as shown by the original description of the 
