PHILIPPINE PHYLLANTHINAB. 
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5. Cl CCA Linn. 
Cicca disticha Linn. Mant. (1767) 124. 
Phyllanthus distichus Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15 2 (1866) 413. 
Cicca acidissima Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 700. 
Phyllanthus acidissimus Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 3 2 (1863) 50, non Noronli. 
in Verh. Batav. Gen. 5 4 (1790) 22. 
Phyllanthus acidus Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 8 (1903) 41, splialm. 
Luzon, Province of Ilocos Norte, Bur. Sci. 2281 Hearns: Province of Union, 
Bauang, Elmer 5641: Province of Rizal, Manila, Loher 4153, Ahern 709, Merrill 
3804, For. Bur. 12464 Curran: Province of Tayabas, Pagbilao, Merrill 1909. 
Mindoro, Mamburao, For. Bur. 8612 Merritt; without further locality, For. Bur. 
8558 Merritt. 
The fruits of this species are fleshy externally, containing a 6- or 8-grooved 
bony endocarp, firmly united, and not separable by pressure, showing however 
by traces of the original carpellary walls on its exterior that it represents either 
3 or 4 carpels, and containing 3 or 4 cells each with one seed. It is well repre- 
sented by the figure of Lamarck, 2 and less distinctly by that of Vidal. 3 Further, 
Blanco’s description of Cicca acidissima is unusually good. 
Although this species, along with others later described as cogeneric with it, 
was placed by Mueller in Phyllanthus, it seems clearly separable from that genus, 
by the structure of its fruit. Blanco described it as dioecious, and that is the 
testimony of all recent Philippine collections. From Mueller’s description it would 
seem that he had male flowers, with which female flowers were occasionally 
found, for he implies that the latter are very few, and only found at the bases of 
the branches. In our material, they are exceedingly numerous. Hooker 4 5 says 
that he had not seen the fruit; the statements of Roxburgh and Kurz, cited by 
him, agree well with the views here maintained. 
Kurz 6 has already revived this Linnaean genus, but with wider limits than 
here, where it is restricted to such species ordinarily placed in Phyllanthus as 
have drupaceous fruit, and of these there is but one known in the Philippines. 
His other species of Cicca are here either in Fluggea or Phyllanthus ( P . 
reticulatus) . 
N.v. Iba, Tag., Pamp. ; Banquilin, Tag.; Carmay, Tag., Mindoro; Poras, Layo- 
han, Caguindi, Vis. 
India, Malaysia, and Madagascar. 
6. GLOCH I DION Forst. 
This genus is a very unsatisfactory one, nearly every species showing 
wide variation, and at the same closely paralleling others, so that it is 
necessary to place together collections which markedly differ in characters 
considered to be nonessential in Glocliidion, though often highly signifi- 
cant elsewhere, while others nearly identical with them in these respects 
are treated as widely separated. In Philippine material this is especially 
the case with the series of forms here placed as G. album and G. trichogy- 
num, but in less degree the same is true of many others. The division 
2 Lam. Encycl. Meth. pi . 757. 
3 Vidal Synopsis Atlas pi. LXXXII , f. D. 
4 Hooker f. FI. Br. Ind. 5 (1887) 305. 
5 For. FI. Br. Burma 2 (1877) 351. 
