Janvary 25, 1908] A Century or New PraNTS 214 
inserted upon the nodes, sessile, 8 mm. long, 4 mm. wide below 
the middle, ovately oblong in outline, compressed, somewhat 
unequal in size, about 6-flowered; empty glumes 2, smaller, 
otherwise similar to the flowering ones; flowering glume 
chartaceous, brcadly elliptic, deeply concave, 6 mm. long, 
fully as wide, finely ciliate along the edges, numerously 
nerved; palea usually 1 mm. shorter, narrowly oblong, densely 
ciliate along the keels which are 1.5 mm. apart at the 
middle, minutely bidentate at apex, the thin lateral folds 
enclosing the stamens and pistils; filaments glabrous, hyaline, 
a trifle exceeding the palea and its subtending glume, 6, 
united especially toward the top but easily separating; an- 
thers ultimately exerted, yellow, 3 to 4 mm. long, at least 
0.5 mm. thick, linear, pointed at apex, base 2-lobed, basifixed, 
persistent and twisted after its pollen is shed; ovary sub- 
globose, hairy, 0.75 mm. in diameter; style about 5 mm. 
in length, hairy, gradually thickened toward the base, brown 
and twisted at the top and terminated into an acuminate 
short bristly pubescent stigma. 
Type specimen 7283, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. Tall and graceful, forming 
forests in deep fertile soil of the Bangon River. Quite 
common, aud its stems are used by the natives for diverse 
purposes. Distingu'shed from G. verticellata Munro by its 
shorter foliage which is only one half as wide and with 
obtusely rounded bases, not narrowly attenuate. Named after 
Mr. E. D. Merrill. 
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FLAGELLARIACEAE. 
Flagellaria philippinensis n. sp.—A looping climber; stems 
sparingly branched, 12 mm. thick or often thicker, hard, 
smooth, green. Leaves about 5 cm. apart, rigid, lucid light 
green on both sides, coriaceous, in 2 divaricate rows, brown 
when dry, 8 to 5 dm. long, linear lanceolate, gradually 
tapering to a very slender circinate tendril like point, 4 
em. wide below the middle, the base subtruncate or shortly 
obtuse, glabrous, its parallel nerves faint and numerous; 
petiole very short, stout, flattened, strongly twisted; sheaths 
overlapping, striate, the throat glabrous and entire. Panicle 
terminal, subpendulous, upon far outreaching branchlets, 5 
