Zio... LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Arr. 16 
to 6 dm. long, creamy white, glabrous; branches and branchlets 
very wiry, smooth, flattened toward the base, branched from 
below the middle, with brown colored accrescences in the 
axils, the ultimate branchlets short flexuose and usually 
subtended by obtuse bracts; flowers usually several clustered 
toward the end of the peduncles, subsessile, subtended by 
similar bracts; sepals petaloid, 6, the outer 3 somewhat 
shorter than the inner ones, ovately oblong, 2.5 mm. long, 1.5mm. 
wide near the base, obtuse, persistent, imbricate, obscurely united 
at the bases, theapical one half hyaline; stamens 6, much 
exerted; the filaments glabrous, free, subpersistent, flaccid, 4 
mm. in length; anthers basifixed, linear, 2 mm. long, 0.5 
mm. wide, rounded at the apex, with 2 short spurs at the 
base; ovary glabrous, 1 mm. long, more or less elongate 
triangular; style equally as long, also glabrous; the 3 stigmatic 
arms longer, reflexed and slightly twisted; fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 9142. A. D E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. Foliage and infrutescence twice 
as large as F. indica Linn. and anthers only one half as long 
as in that species. It was discovered in damp woods climbing 
lofty trees at 750 meters near the base of Mount Banahao. 
COMMELINACEAE. 
.Pollia philippinensis n. sp.—Erect or reclining herbs, 
with branched and creeping rootstocks, 1 to 2 m. high. 
Leaves mostly toward the top, somewhat succulent, smooth 
on both sides, broadly lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5 dm. long 
including the much narrowed base, 7 cm. wide, entire, apex- 
tapering into very slender sharp points, base attenuate; finely 
and inconspicuously parallel nerved, “equally plain from 
both sides, the cross bars beneath faint and very numerous; 
sheaths of the lower portion of the stem persistent, inflated, 
1.5 cm. thick, 3 cm. long, striate, the entire ciliate throat . 
oblique and usually terminating into a short appendage. 
Infrutescence terminal, usually upon somewhat shorter stems, 
persistent even after the foliage of the stem disappears, 
congested, 7 cm. long; peduncle 5 cm. long; strict, obscurely 
nodose, smooth, about 5 mm. thick; branches 1 cm. long, 
with ring like nodes, tough, persistent, usually 3 to 5-branched 
or bearing 3 to 5 pedicels; pedicels strict, at most 5 mm. 
