PHILIPPINE PHYLLANTHINNE. 
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minutely tuberculate; staminal column extremely short, the filaments 
united, the 4 anther-cells forming a broken ring around the apex and 
dehiscing horizontally, surrounding a minute rudiment of the ovary : 
female flowers solitary or paired, borne on pedicels 12-28 mm long; 
perianth-segments 6, similar to those of the male, 3 mm long; glands 6, 
oblong or oblanceolate, 1 mm long, almost free but united at the base to 
a very shallow ring which completely surrounds the ovary ; ovary globose, 
very obscurely pubescent, 1 mm in diameter, 6-lobed, 3-cellecl; styles 3, 
free, forking into 2 slender lobes about 0.5 mm long almost immediately 
above the ovary : capsule white, depressed-globose, 8 mm in diameter, 
glabrous, horny in texture, 6-lobed, 3-celled; seeds 4 mm long, outer wall 
of the testa composed of horizontal fibres, easily ruptured and giving 
the appearance of brownish pubescence or minute tubercles. 
A shrub 1-3 m high, the branches grayish or brownish, terete, some- 
what striate, more or less pubescent : leaves borne on pubescent petioles 
less than 1 mm long, the lamina chartaceous, rhombic-ovate to elliptic, 
2.5—4 cm long, 1.3-1. 8 cm wide, or some of the leaves smaller, equilateral 
or strongly inequilateral and acute or rounded at the base, the margins 
slightly recurved and ciliate, the apex mucronate, the upper surface 
green, glabrous, the under glaucous, pubescent especially on the veins; 
lateral veins on each side of the midrib 4—6, anastomosing well within 
the margins; stipules lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 2 mm long, acumi- 
nate, pubescent. 
Luzon, Province of Albay, Batan Island, Batan, Bur. Sci. 6230 Robinson. 
This species forms with P. blancoanus, P. stipularis, P. mindorensis and P. 
leytensis, a very natural group, all showing the same arrangement of stamens 
and styles, and having a minute rudiment of the ovary at the apex of the column 
formed by the short united filaments. 
18. Phyllanthus leytensis Elmer Leaf!. 1 (1908) 307. 
Monoicus : floribus masculinis pedicellis gracilibus 4-6 mm longis 
suffultis, perianthii segmentis 4, triangulari-ovatis, fimbriatis; disci lobis 
4; filamentis tota longitudine connatis; antheris 2 (loculis 4), transver- 
saliter dehiscentibus : floribus femineis in pedicellis gracilibus apice in- 
crassatis circiter 2-3 cm longis suffultis; perianthii segmentis 6, ovatis, 
fimbriatis; disco annulari, superiori margine 6-lobato; ovario minute 
papilloso-pubescenti, 3-loculari : foliis brevissime petiolatis, rhomboideo- 
oblongis, apicem versus latioribus, valde inaequilateralibus, margine in- 
feriori incurvatis, apice rotundatis apiculatisque, circiter 2 cm longis, 
7-12.5 mm latis, inferioribus minoribus. 
Leyte, Palo, Elmer 7267. 
19. Phyllanthus buxifolius Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1863) 50. 
Scepasma buxifolia Blume Bijdr. (1825) 583. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, Subig, Hallier s. n. : Province of Bataan, Mount 
Mariveles, Lamao River, Merrill 2532, Whitford 7/5, Williams 1)3, Bur. Sci. 161)9 
