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ROBINSON. 
Basilan, Hallier s. n., For. Bur. 4024 Hutchinson. Bohol, Cuming 1842. Pala- 
wan, Bur. Sci. 726 Foxioorthy. 
These collections are by no means uniform, but no definite characters can be 
found by which to separate them, although several varieties could be distinguished, 
intergrading with one another. It is noteworthy that the Mindanao collections, 
as well as a majority of those from the Visayas, and a smaller proportion of those 
from Luzon and Mindoro, have much shallower serrations than the rest; all 
necessary intergrades occur. One variety is so different from the rest that the 
collections under it are cited separately, the leaves are much smaller and more 
coriaceous, but there are again intermediate forms, and it is not here held to be 
specifically different. 
Leucosyke capitellata var. celtidifolia Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 16 1 (1869) 
235. 2S 
Missiessya celtidifolia Gaudich. Bot. Voy. Bonite pi. 93; Wedd. in Ann. Sci. 
Nat. Bot. IV 1 (1854) 195. 
Missiessya aspera Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1. c. 
Leucosyke celtidifolia Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 1 2 (1859) 266. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Cuming 1350: Province of Ilocos Norte, For. Bur. 
19044 Darling: District of Bontoc, Vanoverbergh 264, Bur. Sci. 5982 Ramos, 
For. Bur. 10987 Curran, For. Bur. 16525 Curran & Merritt : Province of Benguet, 
Williams 1018: Province of Nueva Vizcaya, For. Bur. 14857 Darling: Province 
of Pangasinan, Merrill s. n.: Province of Pampanga, Loher 4988, For. Bur. 19422 
Curran: Province of Bataan, Whitford 1149, Elmer 6976. This is a more 
northern variety; where its range overlaps that of the species, the elevation is 
greater. 
Local names: alalasi, ararasi, arasi (Bontoc) ; anagasi (Cebu, Zamboanga) ; 
anugas (Sorsogon) ; banato (Tayabas); bajebaje (Negros); bunkilan (Basilan); 
daluncadios (Negros) ; gasigasi (Zamboanga) ; hanlagasi, hilagasa, hilagam, 
lagasi (Mindoro); jinlagasi, llagasi (Negros); jinagasi (Camarines) ; leasin, 
layasin ( Tayabas ) ; ysis may a ( Rizal ) . 
Java to the Moluccas and Formosa. 
10. Leucosyke quadrinervia sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbuscula, ramulis plus minusve flexuosis : foliis mediocriter 
petiolatis, basi valde inaequilateralibus, marginibus crenatis, apice acum- 
inatis, spurie quadrinerviis ; stipulis chartaceis, lanceolatis, admodum 
parvis. 
Dioecious : staminate glomerules on peduncles 1 cm long or less, com- 
paratively few-flowered, 5 mm in diameter; flowers shortly pedicelled, 
perianth 1.5 to 2 mm long, 4-parted, the segments lanceolate, acuminate, 
strigose on the outer surface near the apex; filaments 1.5 to 2 mm long; 
rudiment of ovary lanate: pistillate peduncles 3 to 6 mm long, the 
capitula 6 to 7 mm in diameter ; flowers shortly pedicelled, perianth-lobes 
very short, triangular ; ovary oblique, 1.4 mm long, pubescent at the 
apex; stigma short, capitate. 
Shrubs or small trees, attaining 7 m. in height, the branches and 
branchlets sometimes strikingly zigzag-flexuose, striate, annulate, scarred, 
often glaucous; petioles 4 to 10 mm long, the rigid lamina strongly 
inequilateral, especially at the base, elliptic to ovate, 4.5 to 11.5 cm long, 
2 to 5.5 cm wide, or still longer on young shoots, the base usually ven 
