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MERRILL. 
beneath; petioles stout, about 5 mm long. Flowers unknown. Fruit 
axillary, solitary, pedicelled, the pedicels 5 to 7 mm long, subtended at 
the base by several small, pale bracts, the fruits ovoid, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 
obtuse, gray or brownish, with numerous somewhat appressed short hairs, 
the pericarp coriaceous, 2-celled, each cell with two ovules. 
Camiguin, Bur. Sci. 4033 Fenix, June 22, 1907, along the seashore. 
A species well characterized by its 2-celled ovary and very strongly inequilat- 
eral, falcate, obtuse leaves. The genus is well developed in the Philippines, with 
6 or 7 species, hut no representative is known from Formosa or southern China. 
ANTIDESMA Linn. 
A. lobbianum Muell. Arg. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3656 Fenix. Camiguin, 3996 Fenix. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 
A. cumingii Muell. Arg. 
Camiguin, 4079 Fenix. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. A. memhranaefolium Elm., 
recently described, is quite the same. 
CLEISTANTHUS Hook. 
C. ovatus C. B. Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 194. 
Camiguin, 4051 Fenix, (type). 
Known only from this one collection. This genus has about 13 representatives 
in the Philippines, but none are known from southern China or Formosa. 
CLAOXYLON Juss. 
C. rubescens Miq., var. meyenianum Muell. Arg. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3639 T'enix. 
The species widely distributed in the Malayan region, the variety known only 
from the Philippines where it is common and widely distributed. 
MALLOTUS Lour. 
M. leucocalyx Muell. Arg. 
Camiguin, 4047 Fenix. 
Known only from the Philippines, the above specimen agreeing in all essential 
characters with typical material from Mindanao. 
M. moluccanus Muell. Arg. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3714 F&nix. N. v., Ajem. 
Very common and widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia to For- 
mosa and Malaya. 
M. philippinensis (Lam.) Muell. Arg. 
Camiguin, 4112 Fenix. 
Very common and widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia to For- 
mosa, Malaya, northern Australia and eastern Polynesia. 
M. playfairii Hemsl. 
Camiguin, 4024 Fenix. 
Luzon; Formosa and northern Borneo. 
