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540 ROBINSON. 
densely strigose on the veins or glabrous; triplinerved with about 4 ad- 
ditional veins; stipules lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 mm long. 
Luzon, District of Bontoe, Vanoverbergh 500: District of Lepanto, Mount Data, 
Merrill 4507: Province of Benguet, Mount Pulog, Merrill 6568, For, Bur, 16050 
Curran, Merritt, & Zsckokke; Pauai, Bur. Sci. 4354, 4392 Mearns, Bur, Sci. 8434 
McGregor; Mount Tonglon (Santo Tomas), For, Bur, 5006 Curran (type), Hlmer 
6563, For. Bur. 11100 Whitford: elevations from 1900 to 2200 m. 
Easily distinguished from FE. brongniartianum by its habit, from EF. podophyl- 
lum by the narrower leaf-bases and the different serration. 
38. Elatostema podophyllum Wedd. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. LV 1 (1854) 189. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Pauai, Bur. Sci. 4355 Mearns, Por. Bur, 14447 
‘Darling: Province of Tayabas, Mount Banajao, Cuming 789 (type collection) ; 
Mount Banajao de Lucban, For. Bur. 879 Klemme, Whitford 940; (Infanta), 
Mount Binuang, Bur. Sci. 9356, 9390 Robinson. Maixvoro, Mount Halcon, Merrill 
6171. The second collection cited from Mount Binuang, collected at an elevation 
of 900 m, has some of the leaves quite entire. The Mindoro distribution is to 
be noted, as it is only one of several cases that have been made evident by 
recent explorations. Probably all three Banajao collections were from the same 
mountain. 
The pistillate receptacles are now known: it may be sufficient to say that 
they are sessile, of small size, and conform in all respects to the general type 
of the genus: the staminate flowers are 4- or 5-merous. 
Endemic. 
39. Elatostema halconense sp. nov. 
Receptaculis pistilliferis sessilibus; bracteis exterioribus subliberis lan- 
ceolatis, haud acuminatis: lignosum, ramis apicem versus dense pubes- 
centibus; foliis membranaceis, oblanceolatis vel anguste ellipticis, mar- 
gine utroque latere dentibus saepissime duobus gerentibus, apice con- 
spicue acuminatis. 
Pistillate receptacles sessile, small; outer bracts free nearly to base, 
lanceolate, about 1.5 mm long, barely or not corniculate, densely pilose 
and ciliate; inner bracts similar but narrower; bracteoles linear-oblan- 
ceolate, densely pilose at the apex; flowers shortly pedicellate; perianth 
minute, 3-lobed, more or less ciliate; ovary ovoid, about 0.4 mm long; 
stigma penicillate-villose. 
Erect, 30 to 70 cm high, the stems woody, much. branched except near 
the base, the branches and the upper part of the stem covered with dense 
somewhat appressed pubescence; leaves sessile or subsessile, the lamina 
membranaceous, oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 15 to 32 mm long, 
5 to 10 mm wide, base of the narrower side acute, of the somewhat wider 
obtuse or very shortly auriculate, the basal half or ‘two-thirds of the 
margins entire, then with usually 2 acute or obtuse teeth on each side, 
the acumen narrowly lanceolate, 5 to 13 mm long, acute, apiculate; the 
glabrous olivaceous upper surface with numerous cystoliths, under sur- 
face paler, appressed-pubescent on the veins, without conspicuous cys- 
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