Dacemper 14, 1908] Trex Score or New PLANTS 469 
opposite, parallel with the margins, farther up coarsely an- 
astomosing with the 3 to 5 lateral pairs, the reticulations 
2 very coarse and evident; stipule membranous, about 1 cm. 
FS long. Inflorescence in broad capitate clusters, from the upper 
leaf axils, quite solid, upon short and stout peduncles, usual- 
ly somewhat flattened, about 1 cm. high, 2 to 3 em. across; 
the cup-shaped involucre subglabrous, subtruncate, united or 
divided into 2 equal halves; flowers few to several clustered, 
each cluster subtended by more or Jess unequal 7 mm. long 
hyaline margined bracts, the larger ones of which bear a few 
fine spinules along the middle portion of the back; pedicel : 
1.5 mm. long, glabrous, flattened; perianth 8 mm. long, oe 
hyaline, confluent but ultimately separating into 3 to 4 seg- a 
ments; anthers oblong, 1.5 mm. long, lobed on the lower 
end and which in the buds are inverted, basifixed; fla- 
ments very fine, inserted upon the basal portion of the per- 
ianth; pistillate flowers not seen. 
Type specimen 9776, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
This coarse Elatostema forms patches in moist humus 
covered soil near a spring in dense woods at 4000 feet. In this 
plant I noticed the stamens burst out of the flabby subviscid 
perianth instantaneously and with considerable force. In the 
but state the filaments are inflexed and the anthers inverted, 
and it appears that the tension or spring power lies in the more 
or less rugose twisted portion of the former organs. The shock is 
heavy enough to shed all the pollen out as a cloud. The 
filament springs to a far recurved position with the empty - 
anther still intact with the lobed end below. In Visayan 
“*Handalumog.” 
| LORANTHACEAS. 
LORANTHUS Linn. 
Loranthus cuernosensis Elm. n. sp. 
-. Parasitic bushes; stems at the base 2 cm. thick, usually _ 
solidly attached and climbing along the host, roughly lenti- — . 
celled; branches quite slender, green, terete, brown, globose. __ 
