DecemBeEr 14, 1908] Turek Scores or New PLANTS 465 
or frequently obtuse; petiole 3 to 5 mm. long, provided with 
yellowish brown strigose hairs; nerves 3 to 5 but usually 
| only 8 from the base and running parallel with the mid- 
* vein, in the larger blades with a pair arising from above 
| the middle, glabrous, or with a few hairs, prominent be- 
neath, dark brown or reddish brown, secondary nerves also 
prominent. Infrutescence ascending, axillary, 2 to 8 cm. 
long, not exceeding the foliage, from 3 to 7-fruited; ped- 
uncle light brown, provided with hispidulous hairs, branched 
into pedicels from about the middle; pedicels strongly ascend- 
ing, 0.5 cm. to 1 cm. long, very slender and straight, per- 
sistent, very sparingly rebranched, similarly pubescent; fruits 
ovoid to ellipsoid, glabrous, darker green than the foliage, 
upon a dull white rim, more tapering at the apex, hard, 1- 
celled, obscurely angled when dry, 5 mm. long, about 4 mm. 
in diameter through the middle. 
Type specimen 8775, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province of 
4 Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. 
: Rare in the Philippines and only once or twice collect- 
: ed before in the type locality. Apparently the same as 6040 
Elmer with young pistillate flowers collected four years ago in 
the same place. Distributed under Grewia. 
URTICACE 5. 
ELATOSTEMA Forst. 
Elatostema laxa Elm. n. sp. ix 
Alaxly branched shrub; stems hanging from cliffs, nu- | 
merously branched, easily breaking, green and smooth, the - 
larger ones 3 cm. thick; twigs terete, slender, occasionally - 
quite crooked. Leaves flat, subpendulous, membranous, smooth _ 
above, much lighter green on the lower glabrous surface, scat- _ 
tered along the twigs, 1 to 3 cm. apart, alternate, the nor- — 
mal blades 13 em. long by 5 cm. wide across the middle, 
slenderly acuminate toward the apex, base obtuse or obliquely —— 
rounded, most of them subfaleate and inequilateral below the _ 
middle, the lower edge and of the upper above the middle 
A edi mead dentate; ee SETTE 8, from ber edm 1 to 3 sec- 
