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Mearm, For. Bur. 070 Barnes. Mi^-danao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithlev, Mrs. 
Clemens 13: District of Davao, Todaya, Elmer 11958. 
Local name (Apo) : sacati. 
India, Malaya, Australia. 
3. Gonostegia integrifolia Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 4 (1869) 303. 
Pouzolzia integrifolia Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 3 (1851) 134. 
Memorialis integrifolia Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 16^ (1SG9) 235«. 
Luzon, District of Bontoc, Vmtovcrhergh 533: Province of Ben^^uet Twin 
Peaks, Elmer 6388. ' 
The identification is not positive, no pistillate flowers or fruits being present, 
and there are some points of disagreement. The statement "foliis sessilibus 
amplexicalibusque insignis" holds true: the lowest leaves are ovate and shorter 
than several of the succeeding pairs, these attaining a maximum length of 5 cm 
some or all subtending flowers, they then gradually decrease in width but lesJ 
definitely m length, those near the apex being often as long as the lowest tliou-h 
shorter than the longest. The nerves give off a fairly conspicuous vein at the°ir 
. very base, the leaf therefore appearing 5-nerved. In some leaves there are less 
conspicuous outer nerves. The anthers number 4 or very rarelv 5 
India. 
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4. Gonostegia reptans sp. nov. 
Eeptan 
tetrameri 
deciduo : f oliis subsessilibiis, oppositis, mcinbranaceis, ovatis vel orbicu- 
iari-ovatis, apice obscure acuminatis, apicalibus baud diminutis. 
Glomerules axillary, few-flowered : staminate perianth very deeply 4- 
parted, the segments oblong, abruptly or somewhat abruptly infiexed near 
the apex with a transverse crest of hairs along the flexure, when outspread 
about 2 mm long; filaments 2 mm long, anthers 1 mm long: pistillate 
perianth about 1 mm long, the deciduous pilose stigma about 1,5 mm 
long; fruiting perianth about 1.5 mm long, with 8 or rarely more nearly 
acute ridges, pilose toward the apex; achene jet-black or the lower part or 
all white, ovate in outline, apiculate, about 1.3 mm long. 
Plants weak, prostrate, creeping, the stems much- branched, pilose: 
leaves subsessile, the membranaceous lamina ovate, orbicular-ovate, or 
somewhat narrower, 6 to 14 mm long, 3 to 8 mm wide, or even smaller, 
the apical as large as tlie lower, the base rounded or slightly emarginate' 
entire, the apex obscurely or somewhat obscurely forming an obtuse or 
subacute acumen of about one-third the length of the leaf, trinerved the 
nerves extending the length of the leaf or often becoming faint toward 
the apex but not then at the lateral margins, the nerves connected with 
the costa by several delicate transverse nervules but ^dth no additional 
primary veins, both surfaces pilose when young, when older sparingly so ; 
stipules broadly ovate, about 0.5 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Elmer 5828 (type) ; Sablan, Elmer 6140 
A very distinct species, resembling in hahit and in the fruiting perianth some of 
the prostrate forms of Pouzolzia zeylanica, but quite distinct from them in 
venation and in the staminate flowers. 
