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long, divided for about three-fourths to four-fifths the distance to the base 
into 5, narrowly lanceolate, densely ferruginous-pilose lobes; petals oval, 
1.5 mm long, pilose-ciliate ; disk forming 5 semicircular lobes, rounded 
at the apex, 1.5 mm in diameter, densely pilose; capsule in cross-section 
triangular, but the 3 lobes broadly rounded, 9 mm long, 12 mm along the 
sides of the triangle, more or less densely pilose in the sinuses and at the 
base and apex, elsewhere with scattered hairs or glabrescent ; styles united 
for about 0.5 mm, the rest fallen; seeds not developed. 
Presumably a tree, the branches and branchlets slender, the bark pur- 
plish, densely pubescent : petioles 1 to 3 mm long ; lamina chartaeeous, 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 11 cm long, 22 to 40 mm wide,- the base 
emarginate, the margins entire or very obscurely sinuate, the apex form- 
ing a blunt acumen 5 to 12 mm long, upper surface a rather dull bluish- 
green, glabrous or with scattered hairs on the costa, under surface brown- 
ish, densely pubescent on the costa near its base, sparingly pubescent or 
glabrous on the middle part of the costa and the principal veins; pairs 
of veins 8 or 9, strongly arched, the secondary veins lax, conspicuous on 
the under surface, but on the upper no more evident than the finer reticu- 
lations, which are hardly visible beneath. 
Basilan, For. Bur. 19511 Almagro. Rather distinct amongst Philippine species, 
approaching closest to C. vidalii and C. everettii, distinguished from the former 
by the more evident venation, less acuminate leaves, and pubescence, from the 
latter by shorter petioles, different venation, more pubescent branches, less 
pubescent capsules, and the nature of the inflorescence. It is much more widely 
separated from C. gracilis, than is C. vidalii. 
Cleistanthus vidalii C. B. Rob. in Philip. Joum. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 193. 
Gleistanthus blancoi Vidal Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 234, non Rolfe in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 315. 
This approaches rather closely to G. gracilis Hook, f., as represented by Ridley 
14900, from Perlis, Malay Peninsula. The leaves of G. vidalii are larger and 
usually oblong-lanceolate, but some of each species are identical in shape and 
nearly in size, but in these the base of the Philippine species is more obtuse; the 
terminal acumen is slightly more prolonged proportionally in G. gracilis. In 
both the venation is inconspicuous, a little more evident in the Philippine plants, 
where the number of veins is greater. 
GLOCH I DION Forst. 
The oldest name for this, after 1753 as a separate genus, seems to be 
Agyneia Linn. Linnaeus published 9 two species, considered by Muel- 
ler 10 and subsequent authors to be varieties of one, referable to the sec- 
tion Hemiglochidion, although Mueller himself cites it as synonymous 
not with that section but with Euglochidion. Nevertheless, the generic 
name Agyneia has been continued in use, not for the species which were 
so-called by Linnaeus, but for others considered to belong to a different 
9 Mant. (1771) 161. 
DC. Prodr. 15 2 (1862) 239, 307. 
