410 
MERRILL. 
anthers 3, at the top of the staminal column, about 0.7 mm long, 
2-celled, extrorse, apex scarcely bifid or divaricate. Female 
flowers not seen, 5-merous. Pedicels in fruit about 1.5 cm long, 
thickened upwards, the persistent calyx about 6 mm in diameter, 
the lobes ovate, 1.5 to 2 mm long. Ovary densely villous; stig- 
mas 3, cleft, the lobes 0.5 mm long. Mature capsules depressed- 
globose, about 8 mm long, 10 mm wide, appressed-hirsute ex- 
ternally, pale, splitting into 3 dehiscent cocci. Seeds ovoid, 
smooth, mottled, somewhat pointed at one end, about 6 mm 
long. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, Bur. Sci. 13965 Ramos 
(type), February, 1912; trail between Viola and Mount Narig, For. Bur. 
1960Jf Curran, January, 1912, both with male flowers; Province of Ilocos 
Norte, Bur. Sci. 77i5 Ramos, March, 1909, with mature fruits. 
A species probably most closely allied to Trigonostemon sumatranus 
Pax & K. Hoffm., but with differently shaped, obtuse, not caudate-acuminate 
leaves, narrow panicles, etc. 
An allied species is represented by Trigonostemon longipedunculatus 
(Elm.) Leafl. Philip. Bot. 4 (1911) 1306 (Croton longipedunculatus Elm. 
1. c. 1 (1908) 311, represented by Elmer 726k from Leyte, and Piper 325 
from Butuan Subprovince, Mindanao. T. longipedunculatus Elm., differs, 
however, from the species above described, in its larger, sparingly appressed- 
hirsute leaves which are acute or acuminate, not obtuse, and which have 
from 15 to 18 pairs of lateral nerves. 
