200 
ROBINSON. 
perianth only about two-thirds that of the males, but proportionally 
broader; stamens and disk wanting; ovary sessile or subsessile, depressed- 
globose, 1 mm long, 2 mm in diameter, at the apex 6-grooved, in the 
flowers seen apparently without cells: capsules greenish, 1 cm long, 1.3- 
1.5 cm in diameter, 5- or more frequently 6-lobed, the lobes usually 
2-lobed, 5- or 6-eelled, each cell with two red collateral seeds 3.5 mm 
long. 
A glabrous tree or shrub 4—7.5 m high, with stems attaining 17.5 cm in 
diameter, wood reddish, bark of medium-sized branches grayish, striate 
and scaly, that of the younger branches striate and lenticellate ; leaves 
alternate, borne on petioles 2-6 mm long, the lamina yellowish-green or 
bluish-green, subcoriaceous, entire, oblong, elliptic or oval, 5-9 cm long, 
2-4.2 cm wide, shortly and usually acutely acuminate at the apex, at 
the base inequilateral and obliquely- contracted into the shortly margined 
petiole; pairs of lateral veins 7-11. 
Type collected at Baguio, Province of Benguet, Luzon, by R. S. Williams, 
no. 953, in flower and fruit, September 16, 1904. Also represented by For. Bur. 
lt-92,1 Curran, Baguio, Merrill JfSOJf, Pauai to Baguio, and Williams 1356, Mount 
Santo Tomas, all in Benguet, and probably by an unnumbered sheet collected by 
E. N. Whitford, at Lamao River, Province of Bataan. The last has staminate and 
immature pistillate flowers only, and the ovaries seem longer than wide. 
This species is closely allied to Cl. subfalcatum Elmer, but apparently must 
be separated on account of the different shape of the capsules. Typical forms 
of the two species are quite distinct vegetatively, but other forms run rather 
closely together. 
PHYLLANTHUS Linn. 
Phyllanthus acuminatissimus sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra; floribus in fasciculis basi bracteatis- dispositis; mas- 
culinis periantho 5-lobato, staminibus 5, disco 5-partito, qnaqne parte 
bilobata intra stamina inserta, ovario rudimentario ; capsulis disco subin- 
tegro basi circumdatis, trilobatis, trilocularibus, seminibus 2 ; foliis 
ellipticis, basi acut.is, apice acuminatissimis, subtus glaucis. 
Mowers borne in axillary fascicles upon slender peduncles arising 
from small bracts: the male flowers with peduncles 2.5—4 mm long; 
calyx with 5 lobes, free nearly to the base, imbricate, orbicular, ovate, 
or obovate, broadly rounded at the apex, the base very slightly thickened; 
stamens 5, their filaments strongly grooved, 1.7 mm long, the anthers 
dorsifixed, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, nearly orbicular, 0.8 mm 
in diameter, cordate at the base; disk fleshy, separated by the stamens 
into 5 2-lobed portions 0.7 mm long; rudiment of the ovary very small, 
prolonged into 2 .style-like arms, lanceolate in outline and blunt at the 
apex : capsules on peduncles 6-7 mm long ; calyx as in the male flowers ; 
disk annular, shallow, fleshy, 1 mm in diameter; capsules globose, 3-3.5 
mm in diameter, slightly 3-lobed, 3-celled, each cell containing 2 seeds, 
one usually better developed than the other, hi shape similar to the 
