3 6098 . LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY (Vor. II, ART. 33 
Petioles and under surface of leaves at least strigose; 
transverse reticulations absent. 
Leaves divided into 8 to 5 cuneate lobes. 
2. H. benguetensis. 
Leaves otherwise. 
Foliage delicate, not larger than 8 mm. in diameter. 
3. H. delicata. 
Foliage not delicate and larger. 
Leaves 6 to 25 mm. in diameter; peduncles 
and pedicels none. 
4. H. rolundifolia. 
Leaves larger than 20 mm. in diameter; pedun- 
cles and pedicels present. 
5. H. javanica, 
1. H. asiatica Linn. 
This is very common in the mountainous districts of northern 
Luzon, sprawling and forming continuous masses over wet 
ground covered with various species of grasses or in deep 
ravines along water courses. 
From Mindanao to the Batanes sland. 
2. H. benguetensis Elm. n. sp. 
Matted herbs. Stems glabrous, slender, rooting at the 
nodes; branches also slender, not numerously rebranched, 
subtended hy thin brown bracts, the ultimate ones strigose; 
stipules similar to the bracts; petiole very slender, strigose; 
blade round in outline, 10 to 15 mm. across, primarily parted 
into 3 cuneate lobes, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; the 
lobes irregularly toothed or the larger ones 2 to 3-divided. 
Infrutescence leaf opposed, upon equally slender subglabrous 
peduncles; flowers not seen; fruiting heads 3 mm. in diameter, 
about 10-seeded, each seed upon short persistent  pedicels 
which are subtended by persisting brown bracts; seeds flat, 
1.3 mm. wide, a trifle less in length, very broadly ovate in 
outline, apex truncate, base cordate but soon dividing the 
. .2 earpels clear to the apex, smooth; stylopodium flat, circular, 
ene style proper oblique or divergent, 0. 5 mm. long, dica tusted 
= by a slightly thickened stigma. 
NN Type specimen 8903, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
t. ncm, Spon; March, 1907. ee oe 
