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ROBINSON. 
Foxworthy, For. Bur. 1501 Ahern’s collector, For. Bur. 2932 Borden, For. Bur. 
3010 Meyer: Province of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 2011 Ramos: Province of Tayabas, 
(Infanta) Tinuan River, Whitford 165; Pagbilao, Merrill 1912. Cebu, Toledo, 
Bur. Sci. 1121 McGregor. 
N. v. Cahoy calioyan, Tag., Bataan; Agaooyoy, Tag., Tayabas. 
Java. 
SPECIES VALDE DUBIJE. 
Phyllanthus nigrescens Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15 2 (1S66) 348. 
Kirganelia nigrescens Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 712. 
Nothing nearly answering the description of -this species can be found, even 
if the points on which errors might easily be made are treated very loosely. The 
two most likely identifications seem to be with Breynia cernua and Glochidion 
urophylloides, neither quite impossible. Assuming what is probable, that the 
species is represented in our collections, the former is perhaps the species in 
which a writer could be most easily forgiven for counting the G perianth-segments 
as 4, his 6-celled berry with one seed in each cell may be the 3-celled berry with 
2 seeds in each, the anthers are 3 not 5, the fruit is black in the herbarium, 
though red in nature, and his specimen might have been dry. G. urophylloides 
answers the description better, but not nearly, and he is unlikely to have had it. 
Fernandez- Villar reduced it to Glochidion molle Bl., which is certainly wrong, 
and would in any case lose much of its value as there is great reason to believe 
that Villar misinterpreted the latter species. 
Phyllanthus pumilus Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15 2 (1866) 349. 
Kirganelia pumila Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 713. 
Previous suggestions for the reduction of this species have been P. urinaria, 
P. simplex, and P. niruri, these well fitting the specific name, but not the descrip- 
tion. If it be a Phyllanthus at all, these have probability in the order given: 
Blanco is believed to have described the last under another name. Re apparently 
considered the present species to be a Glochidion, but the difficulties in this genus 
are ever greater. It may belong altogether outside of this group. Mueller’s 
names for this and the preceding were merely transfers of Blanco’s, and by him 
both were considered very doubtful. 
SPECIES EXCLUDENDaE. 
Phyllanthus phillyreaefolius Poir. Encycl. 5 (1804) 299. 
According to Mueller, erroneously credited to the Philippines on some sheets 
of Perrottet’s collections, and actually known only from the Mascarenes. 
The following, the majority belonging to Glochidion, were enumerated among 
Philippine species by Fernandez-Villar, 1 but have not been found by other collect- 
ors, and were probably wrongly interpreted. 
P. compressicaulis Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 376. 
P. eriocarpu s Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 387. 
P. gaudichaudii marianus Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 379. 
P. insulanus Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 387. 
P. leucogynus Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 75. 
P. marianus Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1863) 17. 
P. multilocularis Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 370. 
P. pulcher Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 3 2 (1863) 49. 
Noviss. App. (1883) 187-189. 
