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Lobb’s specimen in the Kew Herbarium which is indicated as from Luzon, 
and which is exactly matched by Loher 4656. It is a well known fact that 
Lobb’s labels were badly mixed, and although Tulasne’s specimen of this 
same number was labeled as from Java, this is no indication that the 
specimen came from Java, and the same number will be doubtless found 
in other herbaria labelled as from Singapore or from Borneo. The fact 
that the species, that is Antidesma pentandrum, is very common in Luzon, 
and that it has never been discovered in J ava 6 up to this time is quite 
definite proof that the Kew label for Lobb’s plant is correct. 
It is strongly suspected that Tulasne’s chief reason for separating Lobb’s 
specimen as a variety of Antidesma rostratum was that the latter came 
from Luzon, and that the former he supposed, and so far as his specimen 
showed, came from Java. Tulasne is certainly correct in placing the 
plant with Antidesma rostratum — A. pentandrum, and Mueller is certainly 
in error in giving to it specific rank and placing it in the alliance with 
Antidesma leptocladum Tul. The floral characters are essentially quite 
the same as those of A. rostratum — A. pentandrum. 
ANTIDESMA PENTANDRUM (Blanco) Merr. var. ANGUSTI FOLI U M var. 
nov. 
A typo differt foliis minoribus angustioribusque, lancSolatis, 4 
ad 7 cm longis, 1.5 ad 2 cm latis, in ^ superiore angustatis. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Elmer 6327 (type), 6320, the former with 
staminate flowers, the latter with pistillate ones, both collected May 23, 
and in the same locality and habitat. Williams 940 apparently represents 
the same form. 
This variety appears to me to differ from the species chiefly in leaf- 
form, and is characterized by its lanceolate leaves which are rather gradually 
narrowed above the middle, and which are decidedly smaller that the 
average of those of Antidesma pentandrum. 
ANTIDESMA LUZONICUM sp. nov. 
Arbor parva glabra; foliis firmiter chartaceis, oblongis ad 
oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 8 cm longis, basi acutis vel obtusis, 
apice late subrostrato-acuminatis, brevissime petiolatis, nervis, 
utrinque circiter- 5 ; floribus 2 paniculatis, paniculis brevibus, 
in axillis superioribus, circiter 2 cm longis ; fructibus in siccitate 
valde rugosis, circiter 3 mm longis, gibbosis, stigmate subla- 
teralibus. 
A small tree about 8 m high, glabrous. Branches and branch- 
lets slender, terete, smooth, grayish or brownish. Leaves firmly 
chartaceous, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 5 to 8 cm long, 2.5 to 3 
cm wide, shining, narrowed below to the acute or obtuse base 
and above to the broadly subrostrate-acuminate apex, the acumen 
prominent, blunt, the upper surface brownish-olivaceous, the 
lower somewhat paler when dry; lateral nerves about 5 on each 
side of the midrib, rather slender, anastomosing, somewhat 
5 J. J. Smith in Koord. & Valeton Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java 12 (1910) 290. 
