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ROBINSON. 
apices lanceolate to ovate, up to 2 mm long : calyx-tnbe about 3 mm long ; 
calyx-teeth 4, triangular, 1 mm long; petals 4, valvate, linear-oblong, 7.5 
mm long, with a constant width of about 1.5 mm except in the apical 1 
mm, where they are rounded to a somewhat hooded apex, their inner 
surface very densely covered with dirty-grayish pubescence; filaments 4, 
3.5 mm long, except at the extreme base dilated and densely covered with 
grayish-yellow pubescence; anthers narrowly oblong, 2.5 mm long, the 
apex rounded, the margins of the connective pubescent on the dorsal 
surface; style 6 mm long, the basal half pubescent, the apical half nearly 
glabrous and 4-grooved; stigma capitate, 0.75 mm in diameter; ovary 
1-celled, with several small ovules on two parietal placentae; fruit ellip- 
soid or ellipsoid-ovoid, 15 mm long, 7 mm in diameter, apiculate and 
crowned by the persistent calyx, 1-celled, 1-seeded, glabrous. 
A tree 8 m high, the trunk 10 cm in diameter, the dried branchlets 
black, marked b} r the scars of fallen leaves, the vegetative parts glabrous 
except in the youngest stages : leaves opposite or subopposite, the petioles 
10 to 13 mm long, the somewhat coriaceous lamina oblanceolate or elliptic 
ohlanceolate, 4.5 to 8 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, the base cuneate or acutely 
acuminate, the margins entire, revolute, the apex retuse and mucronate; 
lateral veins on each side of the costa 10 to 15. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas ( Infanta ) , Mount Binuang, in mossy forest at 
840 m elevation. Bur. Sci. 9362 Robinson. Distinguished from all other species 
of the genus by the retuse leaf-apex^ a character which it shares with species 
of other genera in the same locality. 
EUPHORBIACEAE. 
Cl CCA Linn. 
Cicca disticha Linn. Mant. (1767) 124. 
Averrhoa acida Linn., 2 * a much older name than the above, was based directly 
upon FI. Zeyl. 179, with no synonyms cited that were not also in the earlier 
publication, although some are omitted. The “Flora Zeylaniea,” in its turn, was 
based on Hermann’s collection of plants and drawings, nearly all from Ceylon. 
The type of Averrhoa acida must accordingly be determined from Hermann. 
His volumes have been studied with great care by Trimen, and the following notes 
bear on the present question. “179. Averrhoa acida, Sp. 428 * * * A. Caram- 
bola, L., var. ? (drawing) “P. longifolius, Jaeq. * * * is the ‘Nelli’ of Herm. 
Mus. 55, and therefore FI. Zeyl. n. 179 (and the Averrhoa acida of Linnaeus) ; 
but there is . no specimen in Herb. Herm., and the drawing is by no means 
characteristic. 4 ” The identification of Averrhoa acida with Cicca disticha is 
a very old one, going at least as far back as Willdenow, 5 but Mueller did not 
consider it in his monograph of the Euphorbiaceae. The combination Phyllanthus 
2 Sp. PI. (1753) 428. 
2 Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 24 (1887) 142. 
4 Handb. FI. Ceylon 4 (1898) 26. 
5 Sp. PI. 4 (1805) 332. 
