DECEMBER 14, 1908] TunsE Score or New PLANTS 505 
none or more properly consisting of a broad brown con- 
nective extending 1 mm. beyond the anthers which are at 
least 1.5 mm. long and 1 mm. wide; ovary glabrous; style 
2 mm. long, thickened toward the apex; stigma terminal, 
obscurely triangular; capsule 3-celled, 7 mm. long, linear 
oblong, sharply pointed, strongly 3-ridged; seeds 1.5 mm. 
long, 1 mm. in diameter, smooth, subglobose, more pointed 
at the base. 
Type specimen 8649, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. 
It is always found about springs and in seepage soil, 
forming turf with grasses and sedges. Quite variable. Named 
after Mr. D. Leroy Topping who first collected it in 1908. 
It is related and indeed closely so to V. serpens Wall. 
ARALIACEJZE. 
BOERLAGIODENDRON Harms. 
= 
) Boerlagiodendron serratifolium Elm. n. sp. 
| A very sparingly branched shrub, 3 to 5 m. high; branches 
at the top only, short and rigid. Blades atout as long as 
the petiole, from 3 to 7-lobed, the middle lobes larger, the 
segments usually cut to the middle, apex slenderly acuminate, 
the margins serrate to serrately toothed or minutely lobed 
and quite irregular; the midnerve of each part conspicuous 
beneath, the lateral ones rather widely scattering and ascend- 
ingly eurved, tips terminating into the more prominent teeth; 
petiole 3 to 5 dm. long, glabrous, 8 mm. thick, grooved along the 
upper side, smooth, usually spotted with minute pale white 
lenticels, the base provided with a series of crinkled rings; 
stipule rigid, glabrous, broadly triangular, obtuse at apex, 
1 em. long, brownish along the thin margins. Inflorescence 
dimorphic, terminal, corymbose, rigid, 3 dm. across, erect, — 
composed of small orange yellow clusters subtended by thick | 
braets; primary peduncle about 5 cm. long, purplish, compres- 
sed and grooved on the flattened sides, glabrous, subtended __ 
by a large bract, forked at the apex; each fork giving rise - 
to two secondary fertile staminate peduncles and an axillary 
pistillate one; secondary peduncles 8 cm. long, glabrous, pur- 
