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This species belongs in the group with Claoxylon longifolium 
Miq. and C. subviride Elm. and is distinctly more closely allied 
to the latter, from which it differs in its very minutely glandular- 
serrulate leaves, eglandular petioles and much fewer stamens. 
In this connection I am of the opinion that all of the Philippine 
specimens referred by Pax to C. longifolium are referable to 
C. subviride on account of their short inflorescences and their 
biglandular petioles. 
BLUMEODENDRON (Muell.-Arg.) Kurz 
This group was first characterized by Muell.-Arg. in 1866 as 
a subgenus of Mallotus, and raised by Kurz to generic rank in 
1873, although Bentham and Hooker f. retained it as a subgenus 
of Mallotus as originally placed by Mueller. The type is 
the Javan species originally described by Blume as Elateno- 
spermum tokbrai Blume. J. J. Smith ^ has justly reinstated the 
group as of generic rank, in which he has been followed by 
Pax.® The two known Malayan species are Blumeodendron tok- 
brai (Blume) Kurz (quoad syn. Blume) and B. kurzii (Hook, 
f.) J. J. Sm.; the former known from Java and Borneo, the 
latter from Tenasserim, the Andaman Islands, Malay Peninsula, 
Sumatra, and Java. Blumeodendron kurzii J. J. Sm. is the 
form thought by Kurz to represent Elateriospermum tokbrai 
Blume, and which was later redescribed by Hooker f. as Mallotus 
kurzii. To this genus in 1912 I referred the Philippine species 
described two years earlier by Mr. Elmer as Sapium rotundi- 
folium. 
In a note prepared at Kew and supplied to me in 1911 by the 
late Dr. C. B. Robinson he indicates that both he and Mr. R. A. 
Rolfe were of the opinion that the Kew material from the Indo- 
Malayan region then available represented at least four distinct 
species. In the Philippines I find the genus to be represented 
by at least five distinct species, and possibly by seven, as a 
sterile specimen from Leyte is somewhat different from the 
forms enumerated below, while two fruiting specimens from 
Basilan, Bur. Sci. 161S8 Reillo and For. Bur. 18906 Miranda 
can scarcely be referred to described species. The genus Blu- 
meodendron is then considerably larger than the current litera- 
ture would indicate. 
' Meded. Dept. Landbouw (1910) 460. 
“ Engl. Pflanzenreich 63 (1914) 47. 
