406 
MERRILL. 
to 1.8 mm long, or the inner one shorter. Disk annular, narrow, 
distinct. Ovary narrowly ovoid, 1.2 mm long, glabrous; style 
about 1 mm long, columnar, exserted about 0.5 mm, brown, very 
slightly 3-lobed at the apex. Male flowers unknown. Fruit 
globose, about 3.5 mm in diameter, slightly villous, splitting into 
cocci. 
Cebu, Buacao, Bur. Sci. 11059 Ramos, March 19, 1912, on dry hills. 
This species is similar to, and probably closely allied to Phyllanthus 
curranii C. B. Rob., although its male flowers being unknown, its proper 
section is uncertain. It is distinguishable by its nerveless leaves. An- 
other form, apparently undescribed, from Bataan Province, Luzon, is 
apparently still more closely allied than is P. curranii, but its leaves have 
distinct nerves. 
SAPIUM P. Browne. 
SAPIUM SANCHEZ 1 1 sp. nov. § Parasapium. 
Arbor parva circiter 5 m alta, glabra, vel partibus junioribus 
parce pubescentibus ; foliis oblongis vel oblongo-ellipticis, char- 
taceis vel subcoriaceis, usque ad 10 cm longis, acute acuminatis, 
basi acutis vel rotundatis, margine leviter crenato-serratis, nervis 
utrinque 15 ad 20, baud prominentibus ; capsulis ovoideis, 2 
cm longis, inermibus, abrupte acuminatis; seminibus ellipsoideis, 
glabris, maculatis, 8 mm longis. 
A small tree, about 5 m high fide Bolster, glabrous, or the 
young twigs sparingly pubescent (inflorescence not seen). 
Branches terete, gray, lenticellate, the twigs reddish-brown. 
Leaves alternate, oblong to oblong-elliptic, chartaceous or sub- 
coriaceous, 5 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, the upper surface 
usually shining, the lower dull, often somewhat glaucescent, the 
apex usually sharply acuminate, base acute or somewhat rounded, 
2-glandular or glandless, margins finely crenate-serrate ; nerves 
15 to 20 on each side of the midrib, slender, not prominent, 
spreading, somewhat curved, anastomosing, the reticulations not 
distinct; petioles slender, about 8 mm long. Inflorescence ter- 
minal, flowers not seen. Pedicels in fruit 1.5 to 2 cm long, 
the young fruits apparently fleshy, their style-arms terete, re- 
curved. Mature fruits ovoid, black and shining when dry, 2 
cm long, nearly as wide, unarmed, obscurely reticulate, the base 
broadly rounded or somewhat heart-shaped, the apex abruptly 
sharply acuminate, composed of 3 dehiscent cocci, the mesocarp 
hard, woody, the columella short. Seeds ellipsoid, 8 mm long, 
equally rounded at both ends, not at all keeled, smooth and 
shining, one side nearly black, but the most of the surface 
blotched and spotted with grayish-brown. 
Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Surigao, F. H. Bolster 373, August 
15, 1906 (type), along tidal streams; Mainit, J. F. Quadras 209, ex herb. 
