PHILIPPINE PHYLLANTHINZG. 
99 
primary lateral veins on each side of the miclrib 5-7 ; stipules lanceolate, 
1 mm long. 
Mindoro. Magasauantubig River, For. Bur. 12031 Merritt (type) ; without 
locality, For. Bur. 12223 Rosenbluth. 
19. Glochidion album Boerl. Handl. FI. Ned. Ind. 3 (1900) 275. 
Kir ganelia alba Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 713. 
Phyllanthus albus Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 387. 
Zarcoa philippica Llanos in Bot. Zeit. 1 5 (1857) 423; Mem. Real Ac. Ci. 
Madrid 4 (1858) 501, pi. 
Glochidion cuminghii Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1863) 61. 
Phyllanthus cumingii Muell.-Arg. in Flora 48 (1865) 371. 
Phyllanthus gigantifolius Vidal Revis. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 236. 
Glochidion leytense Elmer Leaf!. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 303. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Twin Peaks, Elmer 61/48: Province of Zambales, 
Subig, Uallier s. n. : Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Lamao River, Merrill 
3162, 3197, 3873, Williams 113, 1/82, Elmer 6663, Whitford 33, For. Bur. 127 
Barnes, For. Bur. 1765 Borden, For. Bur. 2221/, 2818 Meyer: Province of Rizal, 
Montalban, Loher 1/751/; Bosoboso, For. Bur. 3371/ Ahern’s collector; Antipolo, 
Merrill 1329, 1681 : Province of Laguna, Calauan, Cuming 527 ; Los Banos, 
Uallier s. n., Alberto s. n. : Province of Tayabas, Atimonan, Gregory 67: Province 
of Camarines, Pasacao, Ahern 162, 271. Negros, Gimagaan River, For. Bur. 5220 
Aspillera. Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River, Williams 2352. Basi- 
t.ax, Uallier s. n. 
The more glabrous forms have the following distribution : 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Elmer 8975: Province of Laguna, Los 
Banos, Elmer s. n. : Province of Camarines, Pasacao, Ahern 11/9, 185, 825: Prov- 
ince of Albay, Batan Island, Calanaga Bay, Bur. Sci. 6288 Robinson; Batan, Bur. 
Bci. 6266 Robinson. Leyte, Palo. Elmer 7377a; Mount Cabalauan, For. Bur. 
K 121/25 Danao. Dinagat, Ahern 1/60. Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Surigao, 
Ahern 323, 31/3. 
After repeatedly examining the flowers of all available material, it has seemed 
necessary to reduce to one species the variable series of forms here represented. 
The two main types are represented by G. cumingii and G. leytense, the former 
pubescent,- the latter nearly glabrous, but the differences seem little more serious 
than the similar ones in G. philippicum. The styles of one extreme are covered 
at the base by pubescence to such an extent that their real form is obscured, 
in G. leytense they are. shortly cylindrical and somewhat narrowed at the apex. 
It is possible to separate the collections not only into two, but perhaps into 
six or seven series which grade gradually the one into the other. G. leytense has 
nearly the same range of leaf variation as G. cumingii, but its type has the most 
ovate leaves of any here cited. A specimen not previously cited, For. Bur. 61/96 
Klemme, from Cagayan Province, Luzon, has similar habit, but the styles are 
more slender, approaching those of G. trichogynum, but too short for that species. 
There is further difficulty. Kirganelia alba was said to have leaves 3 inches 
long, but in other respects the description fits this species reasonably well, and 
as Blanco did not otherwise describe this very common species, the identification, 
first made by Merrill, 7 is very reasonable. Blanco also omitted G. philippicum, 
equally widely distributed, and he may possibly have confused these two, and 
Bur. Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 27 (1905) 75. 
