Avausr 8, 1910] A DECADE or New PLANTS 
mixed. Leaves copious, submembranous, horizontal or des- 
cending, nearly flat, opposite, glabrous, deep pleasing green 
above, glaucous green beneath, drying greenish brown, the 
entire margins subinvolute, 3 to 4 cm. long, 6 to 8 mm. 
long, linear to linearly oblong, similarly tapering toward both 
rounded ends; midvein conspicuous, with 8 to 13 much as- 
cending obscure pairs, the few reticulations faint; petioles 2 
to 3 mm. long, subglabrous, articulate to the finely puberul- 
ent twigs. Flowers usually few-clustered, upon very short 
stalks which are pubescent, from the uppermost leaf axils, 
sessile; corolla 7 mm. long, yellowish green, glabrous, tubular, 
the base constricted; lobes 4, ovately oblong, 2 mm. long, 
venose; stamens 10, in an upper and lower series; the upper 
5 a trifle below the throat, upon slender 0.5 mm. long fila- 
ments, with basifixed orange red anthers, subelliptic and 1 
mm. long; the lower 5 inserted a few mm. below the upper 
series and usually a trifle smaller; ovary brown elongate 
ellipsoid, 1.5 mm. long, strigosely hairy toward the top, 
inserted 1 or 2 mm. from the base of the corolla base; style 
0.5 mm. long, bearing a large capitate stigma; ripe fruit 
short ellipsoid, 6 mm. in diameter, juicy, with a crustaceous 
seed, ‘‘huckle-berry’’ red. 
Type specimen 12218, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. ; 
Lax and finely branched shrubs in moist gravelly soil 
along the banks of the Pauala river at 750 feet. The local 
Visayan call it '"Inyam". 
W. viridiflora Meisn., but leaves and fruits different. Most 
authors consider Meisner’s species the same as W. indica Mey. 
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STERCULIACE AS 
Sterculia humilis Elm. n. sp. 
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A strictly erect suffrutescent shrub; stem mostly unbranched, | 
1 m. high, 7.5 mm. thick, terete; wood quite tough, covered 
with grayish brown bark. Leaves ascending, subchartaceous, 
alternatingly clustered at the top of the more or less fulvous 
brown terminal portion, oblanceolate, the average ones 25 cm. 
