OCTOBER 14, 1907] FREYCINETIA FROM LUCBAN 214 
round or subcompressed apex; stigmas normally 2 to 3, but 
occasionally with 4 or 5. 
Type specimen 9007, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. It is common in the 
woodlands skirting the base of Mount Banahao at 650 meters. 
Apparently it is nearest related to F. vidalii Hemsl. but 
that species belongs to the following section. 
Sriemas 3 TO 10,— Pleiostigma . 
4. F. hemsleyi n. sp.—Scandent, 7 m. high, sparingly 
branehed. Stem rather tightly cleaving to its support, near 
the ground about 2 em. thick, somewhat thicker in the leaf 
bearing portion. Leaves thick and leathery, in obscure spiral 
rows, usually subpendulous, seattering along the entire up- 
per portion of the stem and along the branches, shining 
deep green above, paler beneath, 1 m. long or a trifle 
longer, 7 cm. wide, base gradually narrowed, apex shortly 
terminated into a short acuminate point, shallowly serrate 
on the margins, the midrib toward the apex beneath also 
serrate, the leaves 3 dm. below the inflorescence with pur- 
plish red bases; stipules apparently 10 cm. long and 2 to 
3 em. wide, smooth and rigid. Bracts subtending the ter- 
minal inflorescence fiery red and gradually increasing 
in size and green apical portions; pistillate spadices im- 
mature, 3, erect, upon 2.5 em. thick and 15 em. long pe- 
duncles, nearly terete, 8 to 13 cm. long, at least 3 cm. 
thick, green except the brown apices; the pedicels bearing 
the individual cones rather short and triangular; receptacle 
nearly 15 mm. thick; fruits 7 mm. long, numerous, 3 mm, 
thick, the upper one fourth free and obscurely angular, 
truncate, subterete or more or less flattened; stigmas 5 to 7. 
Type specimen 78449, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. Climbing upon tree trunks 
in open woods around the base of Mount Banahao at 800 
meters. Named in honor of Dr. W. Botting Hemsley. 
5. F. dilatata Merr. s (in Mss.)—Seandent and 
quite numerously branched; the branches half drooping but 
sparingly rebranched. Stems and larger branches 2 cm. 
thick, with rings 15 mm. apart, smooth, yellowish gray, 
provided with short rather sharply conical similarly colored 
