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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Arr. 39 
pairs, all reddish brown in the dry state, reticulations fine, 
quite evident from both sides but especially from the lower; 
petiole 1 cm. long, glaucous brown, glabrous, caniculate along 
the upper side. Inflorescence a spicate raceme, usually rien 
from the uppermost leaf axils, ascending, strict, rachis 
covered with fine yellowish appressed hairs, subtended at the 
base with similarly pubescent hairs, flower bearing from 
below the middle; pedicels divaricate, 1 em. long, subtended 
by acuminate bracts not exceeding 2 mm. in length, minutely 
bracteate at the middle; calyx red, 2.5 mm. long, only the 
basal portion pubescent, the 5 lobes roundly obtuse at apex, 
with a circular disk-like gland on the upper basal portion; 
petals yellowish, delicate, subequal, 3.5 mm. long, distinctly 
clawed; the lamina rotund, denticulately margined or sub- 
entire, truncately rounded or cordate at the base; stamens, 
10, all fertile; filaments free, unequal, the lower one very 
much longer, glabrous; anther 0.75 mm. long, rather broad, 
emarginate at both ends, basifixed; ovary bluntly 3-lobed, 
pubescent; style glabrous, arising from the middle apical 
portion of the ovary, glabrous, recurved, about as long as 
the longer filament; ripe fruit finely pubescent, 3-winged, 
_ the brown glabrous wings chartaceous, ovately oblong, obtusely 
rounded at apex, the middle one 15 mm. long or twice as 
long as the lateral pair. 
Type specimen 12029, 4. D. E. Elmer, Mualbual, Island 
of Cebu, October, 1909. 
Gathered from limestone cliffs or. Toppings along the 
southwest coast of Cebu. 
Allied to H. luzonica Merr., but quite distinct in a 
number or characters. 
VERBENACEA 
Clerodendron williamsii Elm. n. sp. 
A lax undershrub; stem 1.5 cm. thick, 2 m. high, spar- 
ingly branched, ascending, ends of branchlets suberect; wood 
sappy white, odorless and tasteless, breaking with a snap; 
CL bark greenish gray, smooth. Leaves clustered toward the ends 
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