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genus. On any possible interpretation of types, the name Agyneia would 
have to be substituted for Glochidion, as it is 5 years older, nor is there 
any bar to such a course in the adopted lists of nonvina conservanda. 
Glochidion benguetense Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 304. 
This finds a close ally in G. leiostylum King. The stylar column is of the 
same general nature in the two species, but in the Philippine plants is shorter 
and less deeply cleft, the difference being sufficient to maintain them as distinct. 
The leaves are also very similar, in outline, apex, and venation; those of G. 
benguetense are usually more inequilateral and obtuse at the base, average 
smaller in size, and there are fewer of them on a branchlet. 
Glochidion cagayanense sp. nov. § Hemiglochidion. 
Arbuscula: floribus solitariis vel paucis faseiculatis : calyce alte 6- 
partito, segmentis lanceolatis, obtusis vel subacutis, pistilliferorum long- 
ioribus; antheris 3; ovario pubescente, triloculare; stylo basi ovario sub- 
aequilato sed duplo longiore, apice leviter incrassato, trilobato: foliis 
lanceolatis, basi acutis vel rarius obtusis, apice saepius admodum f alcatis, 
acute acuminatis. 
Flowers solitary or few in a fascicle, the only staminate one seen near 
the apex of a branch: staminate flower shortly pedicelled; perianth- 
segments 6, lanceolate; anthers 3: pistillate pedicels attaining a length 
of 8 mm, conspicuously thickened at the apex; perianth-segments 6, lan- 
ceolate, obtuse or subacute, 2 mm long, pubescent or glabrous; ovary 
3-celled, densely pubescent, 0.6 mm long, 0.8 mm in diameter, globose 
or depressed-globose; stylar column not constricted at the base, there 
slightly narrower than the ovary, in all about 1.2 mm long, the basal 
portion cylindric, very slightly widened at the apex and forming 3 
thickened obtuse lobes : capsule pubescent or glabrescent, 6 mm long, 1 
cm in diameter, 3-celled. 
A small tree, 4 m high, its slender ultimate branches covered with 
grayish bark, the branchlets, petioles, and the bases of the costas of the 
leaves more or less pubescent: petioles 2 to 3 mm long; lamina charta- 
ceous, lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 7 to 12.5 cm long, 1.5 to 5 cm wide, 
acute or obtuse at the usually strongly inequilateral base, the apex usually 
slightly falcate, forming an acute acumen ; pairs of veins 6 to 9, strongly 
arched, the more basal not uniting with those next above by strong anasto- 
moses, the more apical forming a fairly definite submarginal vein ; upper 
surface plumbeous, under surface brownish; stipules lanceolate, subfal- 
cate, 2.5 to 3 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Claveria, Bur. Sci. 7390 Ramos (type) ; Missiones 
River, For. Bur. 16715 Curran; Mount Ababaca, For. Bur. 16726 Curran. The 
pubescence of the perianth-segments and other parts of the flowers shows consid- 
erable variation, but almost its whole range can be found at consecutive nodes 
of the same branch. In the extreme, the base of the style is also pubescent. 
Among Philippine species, this is best placed between G. longistylum and G. tricho- 
gynum, being intermediate between these in the lobing of the styles, differing also 
