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more coriaceous leaves. The closest extra-Philippine alliance is probably with 
Glochidion podocarpum (Muell.-Arg. ) , (Phyllanthus podocarpus Muell.-Arg.) 
of Fiji, which has a 6-celled ovary, a comparatively broader style, and ovate- 
lanceolate leaves. 
Glochidion philippicum (Cav.) Benth. FI. Hongkong. (1861) 314 (G. philip- 
pinense) ; C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 103. 
The range of this species extends from Formosa to Southern New Guinea. 1 ’ 
Henry 713 is the basis for the northeastern extension. The flowers are young, 
at least on our specimen, but taken with the leaves, make the identification 
reasonably certain. I have also seen some of the collections on which Mr. Smith 
credited the species to New Guinea, and cannot but agree with him. 
Glochidion weberi sp. nov. § Euglochidion. 
Frutex pubescens: monoicum, floribus fasciculatis, staminiferis pedi- 
cellatis, pistilliferis sessilibus sed fructibus pedicellatis ; antheris 4 vel 5 ; 
columna stylare breve, rotundata, umbilicata, quam ovarium angustiore, 
basi haud constricta: foliis oblongis, oblongo-lanceolatis, vel oblongo- 
ovatis, basi obtusis vel truneatis, apice acuminatis, venis utrinque 6 ad 
13 ; stipulis anguste triangulari-lanceolatis, longis. 
Flowers of both kinds borne in the same fascicles, the pistillate fewer, 
earlier developing: staminate pedicels about 3 mm long, rather stout, 
glabrous on the basal half, pubescent above ; sepals 6, the 3 outer broadly 
lanceolate, fleshy, 2 mm long, obtuse at the apex, pubescent on the outer 
surface; inner sepals similar in size and outline but still thicker, with 
a short broad basal claw, thickened at the apex, glabrous or pubescent on 
the costa only; stylar column in all about 1.5 mm long, the anthers 4 
or 5, about one and a half times the length of the produced connective : 
pistillate flowers sessile at anthesis, but the pedicels in fruiting about 8 
mm long; sepals 6 or 7, the inner and outer similar, lanceolate or ovate, 2 
to 3 mm long, acuminate or acute, somewhat falcate, with long pubescence 
on the outer surface; ovary depressed-globose, about 1 mm long and 
1.5 mm in diameter, with dense pubescence, concealing the styles, the 
latter narrower than the ovary, 0.6 mm long, 0.8 mm wide, rounded 
and umbilicate at the apex, obscurely 5-grooved; fruiting calyx usually 
closely embracing the base of the capsule or slightly spreading or reflexed; 
capsules red, obovoid, about 2 cm long and slightly wider, umbilicate at 
the apex, 10-celled, pubescent; seeds 6 to 7 mm long, 4.5 to 5.5 mm wide, 
flattened on one side, rounded on the other, the testa smooth, brownish. 
A bush, 1 m high, the stem 1 cm in diameter, densely pubescent, bark 
of the stems gray, of the branches blackish, but both obscured by the 
pubescence; the hairs alike on vegetative and reproductive parts pale- 
golden to tawny in color, 1 to 2 mm long, often several-celled : petioles 
12 Flora 48 (1865) 370; DC. Prodr. 15 2 (1862) 310. 
13 See J. J. Smith in Koord. & Val. Bijdr. Boomsort. Jav. 12 (1910) 141.. 
