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ciliate. Flowers very numerous, the achenes oblong, 0.8 mm 
long, brown, cylindric. 
SAMAR, Catubig River, Bur. Sci. 34117 Ramos, February, 1916. 
In damp forests at low altitudes. 
This species is perhaps as closely allied to Elatostema barurin- 
gense Elm. as to any other species, but differs radically in numer- 
ous characters. It is at once distinguishable from the above 
Species in its scabrous leaves and in the type of its hairs, Elmer’s 
Species having softly pubescent leaves. 
PIPTURUS Weddell 
PIPTURUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS sp. nov. 
Frutex dioicus, 2 ad 3 m high, ramis rubro-brunneis, hir- 
sutis; foliis coriaceis, rigidis, lanceolatis, in siccitate pallidis, 
5 ad 9 cm longis, 1.3 ad 2 cm latis, tenuiter acuminatis, basi 
obtusis, 3-nervis, margine crenato-dentatis, utrinque scabridis, 
subtus dense cinereo-puberulis et ad costa nervisque adpresse 
strigoso-hirsutis, nervis utrinque 2 vel 3; floribus 2 capitulato- 
fasciculatis, fasciculis spicatim dispositis, spicis 1 ad 2 cm 
longis, axillaribus, fasciculis 3 ad 5, 3 ad 4 mm diametro; ache- 
niis ovoideis, 1 mm longis, breviter ferrugineo-pubescentibus. 
A dioecious shrub, 2 to 3 m high, the branches and branchlets 
dark reddish-brown, more or less hirsute with short, stiff, pale 
hairs. Leaves coriaceous, rigid, brittle, lanceolate, pale when 
dry, 5 to 9 cm long, 1.8 to 2 cm wide, narrowed upward to the 
rather slenderly acuminate apex, the base obtuse, the margins 
crenate-dentate, the upper surface scabrid, sometimes with a 
very few scattered hairs, the lower surface paler than the upper, 
seabrid, the midrib, nerves, and reticulations appressed-strigose- 
hirsuté and densely cinereous-puberulent on the surface; basal 
nerves 3, ascending, reaching to or beyond the middle of the 
leaf, the lateral nerves above the basal pair 2 or 3 on each side 
of the midrib, distinct, as are the reticulations; petioles 5 to 10 
mm long, densely cinereous-hirsute; stipules lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, deciduous, about 5 mm long. Female flowers in spicately 
arranged fascicles, the spikes axillary, solitary, 1 to 2 cm long, 
the fascicles 3 to 5 on each spike, glabrous, dense, many-flowered, 
3 to 4 mm in diameter; bracts lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, 2 to 3 mm long. Flowers numerous, crowded, ses- 
sile. Achenes ovoid, 1 mm long, ferruginous-pubescent with 
short hairs; styles 1.5 to 2 mm long, deciduous, pubescent. 
LEYTE, Dagami, Bur. Sci. 15320 Ramos, August.6, 1912. In 
thickets along streams at low altitudes. 
