Frsevary 15, 1909] A Scores or New PLANTS 
tily bearded on the inner side at about the middle; segments 
rigid and dark colored at the apex; stamens 5, included, 
alternating with the corolla segments, erect; filaments glab- 
rous, subcompressed, brown, 1 mm. long, inserted upon the 
corolla 0.5 mm. from the base; anther 1.5 mm, long, bas- 
ifixed, elongated, triangularly acute, the base deeply bilob- 
ed, the pair of pollen sacs above the middle and on the 
inner side; ovary superior, surrounded by a glabrous rim 
0.5 mm. deep, 0.75 mm. high, about as thick, short and 
columnar, glabrous, except the light brown ciliate hairs at 
the apex; style central, glabrous, strict, 0.25 mm. long, 
with a funnel shaped rim; stigma twice as long, conically 
elongated or the tip more constricted and becoming mucro- 
nate in appearance; fruit not seen, 
Type specimen 9239, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
Collected it in dense humid woods at 1500 feet along 
the road between Lucban and Sampaloc. 'This same species 
has more recently been sent in by Mrs. Clemens from the 
lake Lanao region of central Mindanao. 
CONVOLVULACEJE. 
ERYCIBE Roxb. 
Erycibe dubia Elm. n. sp. 
A liana like climber; branches numerous, forming tangled 
masses; bark yellowish gray, becoming thinly checked longitudi- 
nally. Leaves recurved and shallowly conduplicate on the upper 
lucid side, paler green beneath, coriaceous, oblong or frequently 
a trifle oblanceolate in outline, apex abruptly acute, base obtuse, 
varying in size, the blades 12 cm. long by 5 cm. wide across the 
middle, glabrous on both sides or only the midnerve beneath 
and toward the base supplied with a few hairs, entire, 
alternatingly scattered; petiole 1 cm. long, finely rugose in the 
dry state, when young covered with short yellowish brown 
stellate hairs, ultimately becoming glabrous; nerves oblique, 
the 5 to 7 pairs not very prominent, the reticulations obscure 
but evident from below.  Infrutescence erect, axillary and 
terminal, the main spike varying from a few to 15 cm. long, 
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