A68 LEAFLETS or PmitiPPINE Botany [Vor. II, Agr 24 
yellowish green, 5 mm. long, united at the base, laciniately 
divided, strigosely pubescent on the back, margins hyaline; 
pedicels of staminate flowers when in anthesis 5 mm. long, 
strigose, hyaline; perianth 4-segmented, hyaline, finely strigose, 
tips acuminate or tailed, about 3 mm. long; stamens 3 or 4; hy- 
aline filaments nearly 2 mm. long, glabrous; anthers 1.25 mm. 
long, 0.75 mm. wide, oblong, divided from the base, basifixed; 
female inflorescense a sessile dense cluster, in the leaf axils, sev- 
eral-flowered; involucre and perianth segments similar, 1.5 
mm. long, linear, bearing numerous long well interlaced woolly 
hairs; pedieels very short, glabrous; ovary oblong, 0.25 mm. 
long, bearing a terminal sessile stizma; achene nearly 0.5 mm. 
long, triangular, glabrous, with acute ends. 
Type specimen 10848, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 1908. 
Discovered on a cool dry ledge thinly covered with earth, 
in a deep wooded canyon along the Bonyao riverat 1500 feet 
altitude. 
This fine species somewhat resembles E. obovatum Wedd. 
but is more delicate than 628 Cuming. Leaves not pseudo- 
strigose on the upper side, much larger, differently shaped, 
and the few teeth coarse and crenate. 
Elatostema spinulosum Elm. n. sp. 
Very succulent herbs; stems angular, dark green, watery, 
ridged from the base, reclining, 3 cm. thick near the base, 
|. ultimately suberect and from 3 to 6 dm. high, unbranched, 
rooting from the lower joints, spinulescent. Leaves widely 
scattering, also spinulescent especially beneath, heavy, slight- 
ly ascending, dark green above, paler beneath, the lower 
leaves a trifle smaller, glabrous, the medium blades 2 dm. 
long by 8 em. wide above the middle, inequilateral, ob- 
scurely falcate, oblongish obovate in outline, margin toward 
the base subentire especially so along the upper straighter 
edge, otherwise coarsely dentate especially toward the round- 
ed apex which terminates into an acute point, subsessile; at 
the base the lower side subauriculate, the side upper originating 
some distance from the point of attachment; veins very con- 
< gpicuous beneath in the dry state, very deep green when 
. fresh; the basal pair originating from near the base and sub- 
