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Male flowers numerous, subsessile or the peduncle 4 mm. long, fleshy, succulent, 

 the heads 1 to 2 cm. in diameter, the bracts confluent into a fleshy disk, the tips 

 scarcely free, flowers surrounded by a mulicaginous, transparent substance. 

 Anthers 1 mm. long or less. 



(254 Whit ford) May; (1234 Borden) June. Growing on wet shaded banks 

 subject to constant drip of water in canon of the Lamao River 550 to 800 m. 

 A species apparently related to the Malayan Elatostema macrophyllum Brongn. 



4. PROCRIS Juss. 



1. P. laevigata Blume; Hook. f. Fl. Brit, lnd. 5 (1888) 575. 

 (3884 Merrill). On cliffs at 1,000 m. Tropical Asia, Africa, and Malaya. Not 

 previously reported from the Philippines. 



5. BCEHMERIA Jacq. 



1. B. blumei Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 16 (1809) 1: 204. 



(6078 Leiberg) July; (6656 Elmer) November. Along streams below 100 m. 

 Endemic. 



6. PIPTURUS Wedd. 



1. P. asper Wedd: in DC. Prodr. 16 (1869) 1: 235. 17 



(72 Whitford) April; (2222 Meyer) December. In thickets near streams below 

 100 m. Common and widely distributed in the Philippines. Endemic. T., 

 Dalunot. 



6. VILLEBRUNEA Gaudichaud. 



1. V. trinervis Wedd.; DC. Prodr. 16 (1869) 1: 235. 22 



(2645, 3001 Meyer) February, May; (6978 Elmer) November; (195 Barnes) 

 January. In canon of the Lamao River, 200 to 700 m. Endemic. 



7. LEUCOSYKE Zoll. et Mor. 



1. L. capitellata (Poir.) Wedd. 1. c. 235. 27 



(283 Whitford) May; (2543, 2544 Merrill) June; (6665 Elmer) November. 

 Along streams from nenr sea level to 900 m. Widely distributed in the Philip- 

 pines. Malaya. 



2. L. capitellata var. celtidifolia (Gaud.) Wedd. 1. c. 235."* 



(1149 Whitford) March; (6976 Elmer) November. On exposed ridges 900 to 

 1.100 m. Certainly only an ecological variety of Leucosyke capitellata. Endemic. 



PROTEALES. 

 PROTEACE^. 



1. HELICIA Lour. 



1. H. cumingiana Presl; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 14 (1857) 440. 



171, 118, 456, 460 Whitford) May, July; (1354 Borden) July; (3767 Merrill) 

 January; (2599 Meyer) February. On exposed ridges above 1,000 m. Endemic. 



2. H. philippinensis Meissn. 1. c. 441. 



(836, 1235, 2076, 3060 Borden) May, June; (1510 Ahern's collector) July; 

 (2602 Meyer) February; (342 Whitford) May. In forests above 600 m. En- 

 demic. 



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