ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, II. 
195 
capsule, divided for 2.5 m m into 5 lanceolate obtuse lobes ; petals 5, 
oblong, 1 mm long, 0.4 mm wide, rounded or denticulate at the apex, 
basal claw very broad or more often wanting; free portion of disk 0.8 
mm long, divided into 5 or possibly sometimes more ovate lobes, which 
are truncate at the apex, with a few somewhat obscure teeth; pedicel of 
the capsule 3.5 mm long, capsule depressed-globose, 7-8 mm long, 9 
mm wide, yellowish-red, brown when dried, glabrous except sometimes 
at the base and in the sinuses of the 3 lobes, 3-celled, each cell so far 
as seen containing a single seed; seeds 4.5 mm long, testa brown, radicle 
1.5 mm long, each cotyledon orbicular-ovate, 3.5 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, 
rounded at the apex, truncate at the base. 
A bush 2-3 m high, bark of the ultimate branches gray, glabrous 
except the brown-tomentose youngest shoots, terete or at the extreme 
apex strongly angled; leaves borne on petioles 6-10 mm long, the 
lamina subcoriaceous, entire, ovate or rarely elliptic-oblong, 7.5-14 cm 
long, 4-6.7 cm wide, at the apex rather gradually contracted into a 
short blunt acumen, acute at the base; veins on each side of the midrib 
10-12, straight, thin, dividing when two-thirds of the way to the margin, 
two distinct submarginal veins present, with obscure veins outside, veins 
of all orders, though thin, distinct upon both surfaces, but especially 
upon the under. 
Type collected at Camiguin Island, Babuyanes, by Eugenio Fenix, Bur. Sci. 
4051, June 27, 1007. 
11. Cleistanthus decipiens sp. nov. 
Floribus masculinis ignotis ; floribus femineis subsessilibus, pentameris, 
petalis triangulari-oblanceolatis, ovario subgloboso, villoso; capsulis pedi- 
cellatis, viridibus, sparse villosis; foliis ellipticis vel rarius ovalibus, 
chartaceis, basi decurrentibus, apice breviter obtuseque acuminatis; venis 
utrinque 10-12, curvatis. 
Male flowers unknown : female flowers subsessile, few in a fascicle, 
bracted at the base; the bracts few, pubescent; calyx 3.5 mm long, in 
fruit closely inclosing the base of the pedicel of the capsule, its 5 lobes 
lanceolate, acute, about 2 mm long; petals 5, triangular-obl anceol ate, 
inserted on the margin of the tube of the calyx, 1 mm long, 0.3 mm 
wide, cuspidate at the apex, gradually narrowed from the apical fifth 
to the base; disk thin, inconspicuous, free for about 0. 3-0.4 mm, its 
upper margin forming shallow lobes or nearly truncate; ovary densely 
villose, 0.8 mm long, 1 mm wide; styles 3, in all 0.8 mm long, bifid 
for the apical 0.2 mm; capsules borne on villose pedicels 4 mm long, 
green when fresh, brownish-black when dry, globose-ovoid, triangular 
in section, 8.5-9 mm long, 9.5-10 mm in diameter, with scattered or 
dense yellowish-brown villose pubescence, 3-lobed, 3-celled, each cell 
containing a single seed 6 mm long, 2.5 mm in diameter, shortly 2-lobed 
at the base, its testa brown ; no embryos found. 
