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Type specimen 490, Forestry Bureau, collected by J. F 
Quadras, Island of Dinagat, March to May, 1901. 
MYRMECOIDEA JACK. 
1. M. echinata Gaud. 
.NERTERA BANKS. 
* Leaves thin, glabrous. 
1. N. depressa Banks. 
* * Leaves thicker, pubescent. 
2. N. dentata n. sp. An herbaceous prostrate creeper, 
taking root from the nodes; stems filiform, slender, branch- 
ed, its central fibers very strong. Leaves subsessile or upon 
1 mm. long petioles, 8 mm. long, nearly that in width 
across the base, broadly ovate, coarsely and crenately dentate, 
paler beneath, strigose on both sides, opposite; stipules ob- 
solete and represented by ciliate bristles. Flowers solitary 
upon 1 mm. long pedicels, axillary; calyx persistent, united 
at the base, finely cinereous on the inside; its 5 segments 
subcoriaceous, long acuminate or spinescent, 2 to 3 mm. 
long, strigose on the outer side but soon becoming glabrous; 
flowers not found; mature berries shining, vermillion red, 
2 mm. in diameter, globose, frequently with a short per- 
sistent style, dehiscing from the apex into 4 quadrate co- 
riaceous carpels, its interior 1-celled and bearing a thick 
central placenta; seeds many, compressed lenticular, 0.25 
mm, in length, smooth, shining brown. 
Type specimen 6239, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Santo 
Tomas, Province of Benguet, Luzon, May, 1904. It forms 
dense mats in clay-like soil at 2650. meters. 
NAUCLEA LINN. 
* Upper portion of petiole and leaf nerves beneath pubescent. 
+ Leaves oblanceolate, and nerves beneath strigose. 
1. N. strigosa Korth. 
-— -— Leaves otherwise, nerves short pubescent. 
++ Leaves oblong, distinctly cordate at base. 
