Avausr 8, 1910] A Dercape or New PLANTS 
slightly recurved, submembranous, dull green above, much 
paler green or usually reddish beneath though with greenish 
veins, glabrous, usually opposite, exceedingly variable in size, 
the larger collected leaves 4 dm. long, 1.5 dm. wide above 
the middle, obovately oblong, apex broadly acute, the side 
above the middle with 1 to 3 large dentate lobes, otherwise 
entire, gradually narrowed from above the middle to the 
abrupt and obtusely rounded base, drying greenish brown; 
midvein very stout beneath, with 7 to 11 arcuate lateral 
pairs, reticulations coarse but quite evident; petiole also 
glabrous, subterete, 1 dm. long, dark green. Inflorescence 
paniculate, erect, 4 dm. long, 2 dm. wide at the base; 
peduncle usually solitary and 1 dm. long; branchlets reddish 
brown, branched from the middle, pulverulent, subtended by 
linear 5 mm. long green bracts; pedicel 1 cm. long, finely 
puberulent; calyx persistent, similar in vestiture, at most 
1 cm. long; lobes nearly free or united about the base, 
the 4 segments reddish brown, oblong, sharply acuminate, 
the sides more or less wavy; corolla tube brick red, nearly 
2 cm. long, obscurely puberulent on the outside; the 5 lobes 
subequal, oblong or subelliptic, 1 em. long, ‘‘salmon’’ color; 
stamens as many, the exerted 2 cm. long, portion brick 
red, inserted upon the throat, glabrous; style similar in color, 
exceeding the stamens, sparsely pilose toward the slightly 
thickened base, bearing 2 rather pointed stigmatic arms; ovary 
subglobose, glabrous; fruits not seen. 
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Type specimen 11149, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
A rare undershrub in stony soil of humid woods along 
streamlets near the Sibulan river at Ht BO feet. Flowers very 
showy and pretty, but without odor. "'Dibalai'' is the Bagobo 
name. Dedicated to Mr. R. S. Williams who also collected 
it in the Zamboanga peninsula. 
COMPOSITÆ 
Vernonia torini Elm. n. 8p. 
T wd rather small tree; stem 10 m. high, 8 dm. thiek; 
branches chiefly toward the top and forming an elongated 
