DECEMBER 14, 1908] THREE Scorn or New PLANTS 523 
above, olive green beneath or yellowish in the well dried 
leaves, erect or ascending, glabrous, tips strongly recurved, 
2 to 4 cm. long, 0.75 to 1.5 cm. wide across the middle, 
opposite, broadly lanceolate to oblanceolate or subelliptic, 
apex more or less abruptly acuminate to caudate, the base 
subcuneate or acute or even obtuse, the entire margins or 
even the sides rolled under in the dry state; petiole glabrous, 
3 to 5 mm. long; the midnerve very conspicuous beneath, 
the 3 to 5 lateral pairs ascending and rather obscure; stipule 
thin, dry, brown, deciduous, glabrous, intrapetiolar. Panic- 
ulate inflorescence terminal, 5 em. long, glabrous; peduncles 
mostly 3, freely branched from the middle; branchlets and 
i pédicels divaricate, subtended by apiculate or laciniate bracts; 
M pedicels 2 to 4 mm. long, glabrous, articulate, bearing soli- 
2. tary or occasionally 2 to 3 sessile flowers; calyx 2.5 mm. 
long, glabrous, the lower one half stipitate, apex 5-apiculate; 
corolla greenish yellow, 2 mm. long, cleft into 5 obscure 
segments, the interior glabrous as well as the exterior; sta- 
mens 5, inserted upon tbe middle of the corolla tube, alter- 
nating with the segments; filaments about as long as the 
anthers, glabrous; anthers nearly 0.5 mm. long, ellipsoid, 
basifixed, the connective rather large, introrse; style glabrous, 
strict, 1.5 mm. long, bearing a comparatively large suben- 
tire stigma; ovary obovoid, chiefly inferior; drupe 6 mm. 
long, 3 mm. thick across the middle, glabrous, bearing 5-apic- 
ulate calyx teeth, 2-seeded; stones with a nearly plane 
ventral side, the convex side shallowly ridged, about 5 mm. 
long, attached to the base. 
Type specimen 9505 in flower and 10191 in fruit, 
A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos Mountains, Province of 
Negros Oriental, Negros, March and May respectively, 1908. 
This abounds at 4500 feet in the moss covered upper limit — 
of the woods or in the Freycinetia shrubby — ri 8 
trifle higher altitude. : 
OPHIORRHIZA Linn. 
Ophiorrhiza caespitulosa Elm. n. sp. oe 
Loosely tufted annual; stems at most 1 dm. high, palis Tm 
branched, densely covered with. cinnamon brown crisp haire; ve 
