DxckwBER 14, 1908] TnunzE Scorn or New PLANTS 
3 mm. long, linearly oblong. Inflorescence in dense capitate 
sessile axillary clusters, suberect and crowding over the upper 
side of the stem, each cluster -several flowered; involucre 
ciliate or strigose on the outer side, 3 to 4 mm. long, the 3 
or 4 bread segments falsely united at the base, pseudostrigose 
and finely glandular; the individual flowers subtended by 3 
hyaline finely ciliate unequal bracts about 3 mm. long; pedicels 
delicate, 2 mm. long, glabrous; perianth 2 mm. long, sparsely 
ciliate, united below the middle, hyaline, the free portion 
of the 5 segments oblong; stamens 5, opposite the perianth 
segments, inflexed in the bud; filaments a trifle longer than 
1 mm., glabrous, inserted upon the perianth some little dis- 
tance below the middle; anther oblong, 1 mm. long, lobed 
at the base, basifixed; pistillate flowers not seen. 
Type specimen 9823, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
This unique creeper forms dense patches on humus cover- 
ed ground of dense moist woods at 4000 feet. My native 
Visayan called it ‘‘Coyonap’’. 
It is at once distinguished from E. podophyllum Wedd. 
based upon 789 Cuming by its different habit and by the 
conspicuous hastate leaf base. 
Elatostema delicatum Elm. n. sp. 
A branched herbaceous creeper; stems and branches yellow- 
ish green, 1 mm. thick, covered with dirty yellowish white 
strigose hairs; the branches sparingly rebranched, mostly rooting 
from opposite the leaves. Leaves equally scattered along stems 
and branches, alternating and averaging 6 mm. apart, thin, 
drying light green, somewhat paler beneath, glabrous on both 
sides except the nerves beneath, flat, the larger ones 12 mm. 
long, 9 mm. wide, but frequently much smaller, orbicular 
to rotund, or the larger ones oblongish and with widely sub- 
truncate ends, entire or in the larger ones coarsely 3 to 5 
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crenately dentate at the apex, base suboblique and emargi- 
nate or obscurely cordate, inequilateral, subsessile; nerves 
beneath strigose, not conspicuous, with 2 to 3 lateral pairs; 
stipules minute or obsolete. Inflorescence upon 5 mm. long 
very slender setosely pubescent peduncles, solitary or occa- 
sionally 2 or 3 from the same leaf axils; involucre light or 
