ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, II. 
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inserted outside a division of the imbricate 10-lobed disk, the filaments 
2.5 mm long, glabrous, anthers ovate, pubescent, 1.2 m m long: female 
flowers usually with much shorter peduncles than the male; calyx the 
same as in the male; stamens wanting; disk annular, undulate on the 
margins; ovary sessile, subglobose, somewhat rhombic in section, about 
2 mm in diameter, 2-celled, each cell containing 2 or by abortion 1 
ovule ; stigma sessile, forming a succulent flattened disk somewhat 
variously lobed but most often broadly I-shaqted. 
A small tree attaining 9 m in height with a trunk 25 cm in diameter, 
the ultimate branches yellowish, striate, lenticellate, older branches 
grayish; leaves alternate, entire or barely sinuate, coriaceous, glabrous, 
borne on petioles 4-8 mm long and 1.5-2 mm in diameter, elliptic, oval, 
or ovate, 6.7-13 cm long, 3.7-6 cm wide, narrowed at the apex into a 
short and rounded acumen, at the base acute or rounded, inequilateral or 
almost equilateral, blue- or light-green ; primary lateral veins 7 or 8 pairs, 
along with the almost equally prominent secondary and tertiary venation 
reticulate-anastomosing, conspicuous but with the exception of the yellow- 
ish midrib beneath not or only slightly raised above the lamina. 
Type collected along the coast at Lamao River, Mount Mariveles, Luzon, by 
R. S. Williams, no. 377, in flower (male), December 30, 1903. Also represented 
by Wliitford 1269 (male) and Whitford 1275 (female), May 11, 1905, from the 
same locality. 
Originally identified both by the writer and Mr. Merrill as G. Gumingii Muell.- 
Arg., but shown by the. latter's comparison of it with type material at Kew 
to be distinguishable by its broader, entire leaves not pointed at the apex. 
G. Gumingii still awaits rediscovery. 
GLOCH I DION Forst. 
Glochidion williamsii sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbuscula, monoica ; floribus f asciculatis, pedieellatis, parvis : 
sepalis et petalis 3 vel 4, apice rotundatis; disco nullo; staminibus 3 
vel 4; fructu capsulari, 5- vel 6-loculari, seminibus 2, collateralibus, 
rubris: foliis ellipticis, ovalibus, vel oblongis, integris, subcoriaceis, basi 
acutis, apice breviter acuminatis. 
Mowers in axillary fascicles of 10-15, borne on glabrous pedicels 
1.7-4. 5 mm long, those of both sexes sometimes at least in the same 
fascicle : male flowers with 3 or more rarely 4 sepals, in bud imbricate, 
ovate, 2.4-2. 5 mm long, 2-2.2 mm wide, usually broadly rounded at the 
apex, pale on the margins, glabrous; petals 3 or 4, fleshy, strongly con- 
cave, oblong, 2 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, rounded at the apex; disk want- 
ing; stamens 3 or 4, sessile and forming a subglobose mass in the middle, 
anthers oblong, 0.8 mm long, 0.6 mm wide, the connective half the 
width of the anther, and prolonged 0.1-0. 2 mm beyond the apex of the 
anther; pistil entirely wanting: female flowers with the length of their 
