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stout, about 2 mm long, densely pubescent : lamina chartaceous, oblong, 
oblong-lanceolate, or oblong-ovate, variable in size, more often 14.5 to 23 
cm long, 4.5 to 8.5 cm wide, but down to 6 to 8 cm long, 3 to 4 cm wide,- 
with intermediates, the base obtuse or truncate, nearly inequilateral but 
one side often produced slightly beyond the other, the apex acutely 
acuminate, both surfaces drying brownish but the upper the darker, the 
upper densely pubescent, the under less so except on the veins; pairs of 
veins 6 to 13, anastomosing to form a definite arched vein near the margin, 
cross veins between the principal ones several, finer venation less conspic- 
uous; stipules narrowly triangular-lanceolate or long-acuminate from 
an ovate base, up to 11 mm long, pubescent-plumose. 
Mindanao, Subprovince of Agusan, west slope of Mount Hilonghilong, G. M. 
Weber 1012, growing in rocky soil near a stream, at about 400 m elevation. 
G. web'eri is very different from any Philippine species referable to the section 
Euglocliidion, but resembles three belonging to Eemiglochidion, G. trichogynum, 
G. latistylum, and G. album, but apart from the number of anthers, it can be 
distinguished from all three by the styles, sharply in the case of the first two, 
less definitely from the last, whose longer and more slender staminate receptacles 
furnish an additional character for separation, as do the staminate sepals and 
the stipules. Similarly with the species of other countries represented in this 
herbarium. On superficial inspection, only two would be thought worth compar- 
ing, G. superbum,, which is in Hemiglochidion, and G. decorum, J. J. Smith, 
from New Guinea, whose anthers number 4. On a summary of characters, taken 
in what is considered the order of their relative importance, G. weberi seems to 
find its nearest alliance in G. multiloculare Muell.-Arg., but the species are very 
different in appearance. The most conspicuous characters are pubescence, the 
size, shape, base, and apex of the leaves; apart from these there are the stipules, 
pedicels, sepals, and nearly everything except the anthers, styles, and ovary-cells. 
Glochidion zeylanicum var. malayanum J. J. Smith in Koord. & Val. Bijdr. 
Boomsort. Jav. 12 (1910) 118. 
This species has been credited to the Philippines by Mr. Smith. He writes 
that he has seen only a single collection from these Islands that he believes 
referable to this species, but through some unfortunate slip in labeling, the 
number given by him is one that never existed, Ahern 1851f. It is possible 
that it may be Ahern 185, Which has much the general appearance of G. zeyla- 
nicum Juss. However, our sheet of that number has staminate flowers, and the 
anthers number 3 or rarely 4, and I believe that it has been correctly referred 
to the species called by me G. album (Blanco) Boerl., with the qualifications 
that it may not have been the species intended by Blanco, and is almost certainly 
not that of Boerlage. 14 It is still more definitely G. leytense Elmer. This may 
not be the collection intended by Mr. Smith, but the number is more nearly 
similar to that on the sheet at Buitenzorg than is that of any other of our- 
collections of Glochidion. It still seems to me that our nearest ally to G. 
zeylanicum is G. lancifolium C. B. Rob. This differs from Indian specimens 
now in this herbarium by the more distinctly peduncled inflorescences, and 
somewhat in the base and apex of the leaves, but the descriptions of G. zeylanicum 
14 See This Journal 4 (1909) Bot. 99, 100. 
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