ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, II. 
193 
cm long, 3—4.5 cm wide, rounded or acute at the base, at the apex 
somewhat abruptly contracted into a slender obtuse acumen usually about 
1.5 cm long, glabrous on both surfaces, stipules as in the bracts; 7 or 8 
pairs of primary lateral veins on each side of the midrib, not only these 
but the secondary and tertiary venation conspicuous on the under surface, 
and fairly evident on the upper. 
Type collected at an elevation of 1-50 m at Sax River, District of Zamboanga, 
Mindanao, by R. S. Williams, no. 2187, with flowers of both sexes, March 4, 
1905; also represented by Williams 2186, from the same locality, in fruit, 
February 28, 1905. 
7. Cieistanthus laevis Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 5 (1887) 277. 
From this species as represented in this herbarium by two specimens from the 
type locality, Singapore, it is at present impossible to separate Bur. Sci. 2681 
Ramos, Bosoboso, Province of Rizal, Luzon, in fruit, May, 1907. 
Cleistanthus jlancoi Rolfe in Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 315. 
Gluta orgyalis Naves in FI. Filip, ed. 3 pi. 353: non Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 2. 
(1845) 451. 
Cleistanthus patulus Naves in FI. Filip, ed. 3. (1877) pi. 353 ; non Muell.-Arg. 
in DC. Prodr. 15'- (1862) 505. 
C. ferrugineus F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 187: non Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 
1 5 2 (1862) 507. 
This species was based upon a plate to which no plant so far represented 
by recent collections sufficiently corresponds to warrant definite identification. 
The plate is in all probability inexact, especially in figuring the fruiting 
calyces as at the extremity- of a pedicel reaching 1 cm in length. Much the 
most probable identification would be with the plant placed above in O. laevis. 
If this should prove to be the case, Rolfe’s name being the older must replace 
Hooker’s, in the light of present evidence not only for the Philippine but also for 
the Malay plant. Such a step is entirely unwarranted at present. In one 
notable particular Ramos’ specimen differs from the plate and agrees with 
C. laevis. The veins frequently run half the length of the leaf, becoming nearly 
parallel with the midrib, or even arching somewhat inwards as the leaf becomes 
narrower. There are suggestions of this on two of the leaves of the plate, but 
nothing equal to that shown either upon Ramos’ specimen or those from 
Singapore. 
8. Cleistanthus vidalii nom. nov. 
C. blancoi Vidal Revis. PI. Vase. Fil. (1886) 234; non Rolfe in Jour. Linn. 
Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 315. 
C. pallidus F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 187; non Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 1 5 2 
(1862) 508. 
Luzon, Province of Tarlac, Moriones, Vidal 559 (type) ; La Paz, Merrill 2883, 
July, 1903. 
The latter specimen answers Vidal’s description and his type so far as it 
can be determined from a fragment, and is undoubtedly his species. The cajDSules 
are old, and glabrous except sometimes at the base, coming within the limits of 
the original description “junior pilosa dein glabra.” Otherwise the correspondence 
is even more exact. 
The citation of C. pallidus as a synonym is entirely in 'deference to Vidal, 
in whose herbarium Villar says that he saw it. The writer’s strong personal 
preference would have been to credit it to C. laevis Hooker, but there is no reason 
to suppose that any identification of it can ever be more than conjecture. 
