590 LearLets OF PAILIPPINE Botany [Vor. H, Amr. 29 
covered with a dense yellowish woolly matrix; pedicels 1 to 1.5 
em. long, divaricate, ebracteolate or bracts very small and 
caducous; calyx persistent, spreading, 1 cm. across, yellowish 
tomentose on the outside, imbricate; the 5 segments united at 
the base, rigid, orbicular, 4 mm. broad; fruit 2 cm. long, ellip- 
soid, hard and velvety green, turning yellowish from apex 
toward base and becoming softer; the green deeply corrugated 
cotyledons surrounded by a juicy yellow meat; flowers not seen. 
Type specimen 10342, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 1908. 
Looping amongst wooded jungles of a very steep nearly 
precipitous gorge along the Bonyao river at 1500 feet. 
Doubtfully related to E. angulata Prain and E. macro- | 
phylla Hallier, f. 
ACANTHACEZ. 
ERANTHEMUM R. Br. 
Eranthemum fruticosum Elm. n. sp. 
A widely and laxly branched shrub, 2 to 3 m. high; | 
branches sparingly rebranched; the ultimate ones suberect; 
stems 3 em. thick, soft and watery, with a large pith; bark 
yellowish, smooth, green beneath the epidermis. Leaves Op- 
posite, more or less crowded at the ends of the rather 
elongated suberect branchlets, very smooth on both sides but 
much paler beneath, radially spreading, flat and gracefully 
recurved, 1.5 to 2.5 dm. long, from 7 to 10 cm. wide 
across the middle, entire, glabrous throughout all stages, 
gradually tapering to an acute or acuminate point, slenderly 
attenuate at the base, occasionally curved and somewhat 
inequilateral especially toward the base; petiole also glabrous, 
averaging 8 cm. long; nerves very conspicuous from both 
sides, brown or nearly black in the dry state, about 9 to 
1l on each side, much ascending, tips faint and obscurely 
united, cross bars and coarse reticulations scant and very 
faint. Spike never branched, erect, strict, terminal, green, 
glabrous, 4 dm. long including the 1 dm. long peduncle; fruits 
JA bunched and alternatingly scattered or occasionally subwhorled, 
subtended by acuminate subglabrous bracts; pedicel in the 
