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latter reports this species from the Philippines, and from his description it is 
highly probable that he may have done so as a reduction of G. cupreus Vidal, a 
specimen of which was in the Kew Herbarium at the time his description was 
published. The latter is quite different from that here identified as G, myrian- 
thus. Kurz does not cite Hasskarl’s species as a basis for his own, probably 
because of the restrictions placed upon him regarding the insertion of synonyms, 
and it may be possible that they are different. The Philippine plants here cited 
have leaves usually but not always wider than the Javan, the bases vary on the 
same specimen from widely rounded to acute, the Balabac plant agrees exactly in 
its leaf-apices, the other two are sharply acuminate. They usually have rather 
fewer lateral veins than the Javan, the former varying from 1 1-15, the latter 
from 13-15. 
4. Cleistanthus cupreus Vidal Revis. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 235. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Vidal 560 (not seen) ; San Mateo, Vidal 
588 ; Pilea, Bur. Sci. 3301 Ramos, in fruit, June, 1907. 
It seems advisable to add the following to Vidal’s description: That, at least 
if represented by the specimen last cited, the capsules are glabrous, the fruiting 
calyces are borne on definite but very short pedicels, the total length of the calyx 
is about 2.5 mm, of which the lobes are 1.5 mm, the petals are obovate, about 
0.5 mm long, rounded at the apex, and hardly forming a claw at the base; the 
disk is double ; the inner thick, about 0.4 mm long, the outer is thin, 0.2 mm 
long, forming several lobes opposite each of the perianth-segments. 
5. Cleistanthus bridel ifol ius sp. nov. 
Arbuscula, fioribus ignotis; calycibus fructiferis subsessilibus, capsula 
depresso-globosa, dense, fulvo-villosa, 3-lobata, 3-loculari; foliis breviter 
petiolatis, variis, basi subcordatis, apiee breviter obtuseque acuminatis, 
snbtus glaucis. 
Fruiting calyces nearly sessile, ‘solitary but probably originally fascicled 
in the axils of the leaves, surrounded by persistent pale-brown pubescent 
bracts: calyx 3.5-4 mm long, divided for 2 mm into 5, lanceolate to 
ovate, subacute or rounded, villous lobes; petals 5, 0.8 mm long, concave, 
when spread out 1 mm wide near their apex, crescent-shaped with the 
concavity upwards, the upper margin obscurely toothed, the claw 0.2 
mm long; disk conspicuous, but its limb almost obsolete, 0.1 mm long, 
entire; capsule depressed-globose, somewhat densely covered with ap- 
pressed fulvous pubescence, 8 mm long, 10-11 mm in diameter, 3-lobed, 
3-celled, each cell with a single seed, but often showing a rudiment of 
another; seeds pyriform, 3 mm long, 2.8 mm in diameter, the cotyledons 
orbicular, 2.5 mm long, 2.3 mm wide, cordate at the base, the radicle 
0.8 mm long, 0.4 mm wide. 
A small tree 8 m high, its trunk having a diameter of 10 cm, the bark 
of the ultimate branches reddish-brown or grayish, striate, varying with 
age from densely ferrugi nous- villose ‘ to glabrescent; leaves borne on 
annulate-rugose, pubescent petioles 2-2.5 mm long, the lamina lanceolate, 
narrowly oblong or elliptic, 4-8.7 cm long, 1. 2-3.1 cm wide, usually 5-6 
cm by 2 cm, subcordate at the base, shortly and usually obtusely acumi- 
nate, glabrous on the upper surface except occasionally on the midrib, 
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