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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1914 
species, and is well characterized by its lanceolate leaves which vary 
greatly in size, and by its very long and slenderly pedicelled female 
flowers. By Robinson’s key to the Philippine species it falls next to P. 
tenuipes C. B. Rob., but is not closely allied to that species. 
PHYLLANTHUS SECURINEGIOIDES sp. nov. 
Frutex monoicus glaber, ramulis elongatis, tenuibus; foliis 
chartaceis, oblongo-ellipticis ad lanceolatis, 7 ad 12 longis, 
acutis vel acuminatis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, aequila- 
teralibus, nervis utrinque circiter 8; floribus axillaribus, fas- 
ciculatis, 6-meris, $ numerosis, campanulatis, 2 mm longis, pedi- 
cellis 2 mm longis sursum incrassatis, staminibus 3, filamentis 
plus minusve connatis, antheris liberis longitudinaliter dehis- 
centibus, 2 paucis, pedicellis 3 ad 6 mm longis, segmentis inae- 
qualibus, interioribus paullo minoribus; ovario 3-loculare; stylis 
3, patulis, furcatis; fructibus 3-coccis. 
A glabrous monoecious shrub 3 to 4 m high, the branches 
elongated, slender, terete, pale or brownish, the upper parts of 
the younger branchlets somewhat compressed. Leaves alternate, 
distichous, equilateral, chartaceous, oblong-elliptic to lanceolate, 
7 to 12 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the 
acute or somewhat acuminate apex and base, pale or brownish- 
olivaceous when dry, somewhat shining; lateral nerves about 8 
on each side of the midrib, slender, anastomosing, the reticula- 
tions lax ; petioles about 2 mm long. Flowers white, in axillary 
fascicles, 6-merous, those on some branches all male, numerous, 
those other branches all female, few. Male flowers: Pedicels 
2 mm long, thickened upward, from stout, branched, short, 
brown, somewhat hirsute axillary processes, the flowers at the 
tips of the processes ; perianth 2 mm long, campanulate, the lobes 
oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, subequal, rounded or obtuse. 
Disk-glands evident. Stamens 3, the filaments 1 mm long, more 
or less united; anthers basifixed, oblong, obtuse, 0.5 mm long, 
longitudinally 2-celled. Rudimentary ovary none. Female 
flowers in separate fascicles on the same plant, few, their pedicels 
3 to 6 mm long, elongated in fruit, the perianth-lobes oblong- 
ovate, obtuse, about 1.8 mm long, the inner three somewhat 
smaller, all slightly accrescent and up to 2.7 mm long in young- 
fruit. Disk prominent. Ovary globose, glabrous, 3-celled ; styles 
3, spreading, appressed to the ovary, about 1 mm long, free or 
united only at the base, forked. Fruit a depressed-globose, 
3-lobed capsule about 5 mm long, 8 mm wide, composed of three 
dehiscent cocci, the pedicels up to 1 cm in length. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Guinayangan, Bur. Sci. 20725 Escritor, 
March 8, 1913 (type). Here I also refer the following two specimens 
