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annulari, 6-lobato ; ovario sparse pubescente, 3-loculari : foliis brevissime 
petiolatis, rhomboideo-oblongis, basi inaequilateralibus, acutis. 
Male flowers few in a fascicle, borne on pedicels 2-10 mm long; 
perianth-segments 4, broadly lanceolate, the margins merely lacerate- 
dentate or somewhat fimbriate; glands 4, slightly shorter than wide, 0.5 
min long, obscurely tuberculate but not near the margin ; staminal column 
very short, bearing on its apical margin 4 horizontally dehiscing anther- 
cells surrounding a small but definite rudiment of the ovary : female 
flowers usually solitary, sometimes in the same fascicles with the male, 
borne on pedicels 2-3 cm long, slender at the base but conspicuously 
thickened near the flower; perianth-segments 6 or rarely 5, lanceolate- 
ovate, 2-3 mm long including the long slender acumen, lacerate-dentate ; 
disk shallowly annular, its upper margin forming as many oblong lobes 
as the perianth has segments, the lobes usually notched and glandular at 
the apex; ovary with scattered hairs, subglobose, 2 mm in diameter (flower 
rather old), styles 3, bifid, with short slender lobes, at the base more or 
less united : capsules subglobose, 4 mm in diameter, glabrous ; no mature 
seeds found. 
A woody bush 1 m high, its numerous branches crowded near the apex, 
the older parts of the stem covered with gray bark, the branches more 
or less densely pubescent: leaves distichous, borne on petioles less than 
0.5 mm long, the lamina membranaceous, rhomboid-oblong, 17-22 mm 
long, 7.5-8. 5 mm wide, the base strongly inequilateral, acute or nearly 
so on both margins, the apex rounded, mucronate; the upper surface 
green, glabrous, the under glaucous and minutely pubescent ; lateral veins 
on each side of the midrib 4-7, obscure; stipules linear-lanceolate, 2.5 
mm long, pubescent. 
Mindoro, Pinamalayan, For. Bur. 5370 Merritt (type) ; Calausan, For. Bur. 
8789 Merritt ; without further locality, For. Bur. 8606 Merritt. 
16. Phyllanthus blancoanus Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1863) 49, prob.; 
Merr. in Philip. Jour. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 74, certe. 
P. niruri Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 690; non Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 981. 
P. tetrander Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 480; non P. tetrandrus Roxb. FI. Ind. 
3 (1832) 674. 
Luzon, Province of Pampanga, Mount Arayat, Merrill 3830, Bolster 98: 
Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, For. Bur. 2698 Ahern’s collector: Province of Bataan, 
Mount Mariveles, Lamao River, Merrill 3179, 3751, Whitford 237, Williams 1/23. 
Phyllanthus tetrander Blanco is merely his own correction of his identificatiori 
of P. niruri in the first edition, the description being unchanged. Mueller, con- 
sidering that this also was wrong, renamed the species, basing P. hlancoanus 
entirely upon Blanco’s descriptions, with some suggested corrections. He placed 
the species in the section Eriococcus, where the present plants belong. Unless 
perhaps by F.-Villar, the species was first identified with herbarium material by 
Merrill in the “Lamao Flora,” and it is the species so identified by him that is 
here accepted, after careful reexamination of the material. There is one important 
difficulty: Blanco describes the leaves, called by him leaflets, as linear, which 
