FEBRUARY 15, 1909] A Score or New PLANTS 593 
CAMPANULACEA. 
PRATIA Gaud. 
Pratia ovata Elm. n. sp. 
Soft annual; stems trailing, green, subglabrous, 1 mm. 
in diameter, taking root at the joints; branches alternate, 
suberect, delicate. Leaves alternatingly scattered along the 
branchlets, thin or subflaccid, flat, somewhat lighter green 
beneath even.in the dry state, upon a green and sparsely 
strigose or nearly glabrous 5 mm. long petiole, ovate or 
Subrotund, subglabrous on both sides, entire or minutely 
crenately toothed, apex obtuse, base broadly obtuse to round- 
ed or even subtruncate, the normal blades 1.5 cm. long 
and 1 em. wide below the middle; nerves about 3 on each 
side, strongly oblique, occasionally provided with dirty stri- 
gose hairs, very obscure from the upper side. Flowers soli- 
tary from the upper leaf axils; pedicels from 3 to 5 or even 
8 mm. long, green and pubescent when in anthesis, straw 
color and glabrous when in fruit; calyx 4 to 5 mm. long, 
green, pubescent below the middle, divided to the middle 
into 5 glabrous ligulate segments; corolla whitish, about as 
long as the calyx, apparently 2-lipped, the lower lip cleft 
and ciliate toward the apex on the outer side, the upper 
one unequally 3-lobed, all the segments readily separating 
nearly to the base; stamens included; anthers connate at their 
tips and bearing tuftlets of ciliate hairs, oblongish, 1 to 1.5 mm. 
long; filaments finely winged, subglabrous; style terete, glabrous, 
Strict, bearing a small sparsely ciliate terminal stigma; berry 
ellipsoidal, crowned by the calyx teeth, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. 
in diameter, indehiscent, the thin sides ultimately bursting 
to allow the seeds to escape and leaving the strong longitu- 
dinal ridges intact; seeds numerous, brown, smooth, less than 
0.5 mm. in lengtb, nearly as wide, distinctly 3-angled. - 
Type specimen 9099, A. D. E. Elmer, Lueban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
Rare in clayey soil of woods at 2500 feet of mount 
Banahao. 
Its berry like fruits, not capsules, place it with Pratia, 
yet its triquetrous seed is a character of Lobelia. From de- 
