JANUARY 25, 1908] A CENTURY OF New PLANTS 290 . 
whitish or frequently with a tinge of pink, 5; the segments 
oblong, obtuse, about 3 mm. long; stamens about 10, inserted 
upon the perianth near the base,a little more than one half 
as long, glabrous, with curved tips; anthers unequal and widely 
parted, the tips equally pointed, 0.5 mm. long, attached by a 
minute ventral connective; ovary glabrous, ovoid, 1 mm. long; 
style equally as long, smooth, tripartate; stigma knob like; 
mature achene shining black, triangular, rounded at the base, 
2 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide. 
Type specimen, 8357, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. Trailing and forming 
loose masses in various species of grasses and sedges on 
Mount Santo Tomas at 2250 meters. Named in honor of 
Maj. E. A. Mearns, surgeon in the United States Army: 
ANONACEAE. 
Artabotrys luteus n. sp.—A shrubby climber, well inter- 
lacing the shrubs and small trees upon which it climbs; 
branches many, wiry, the twigs green and covered with 
minute lenticels; the stem 3 to 5 cm. thick, hard, with 
smooth gray bark, Leaves chartaceous, nearly equally green 
on both sides, conduplicate on the upper surface, alternat- 
ingly scattered along the very slender twigs, 12 cm. long, 
4 em. wide, but frequently smaller, glabrous, narrowly 
oblong to lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, base cuneate, 
margins entire; petiole 3 mm, long, glabrous, deciduous; 
veins more conspicuous on the upper surface, 7 to 9 on 
each side of the prominent midvein, the reticulations also 
more evident on the upper surface. Inflorescence usually 
on the slender leaf bearing branchlets; peduncle very rigid» 
woody, flattened, half drooping, recurved or hooked, about 
2 cm. long, usually provided with 1 or 2 short shoots, strigose 
` but soon becoming glabrous; pedicels pendulous, 2 em. long, 
yellowish strigose, subtended at the base by minute bracts, 
thickened toward the apex; calyx persistent, 3-segmented, 
short, yellowish. pubescent or strigose on the outer side, 
ultimately reflexed, oblong to ligulate, 5 mm. long, at least 
9.mm. wide near the base, obtuse at the apex; outer series 
of 3 petals, oblong, 2 em. long, 1 cm. wide across the mid- 
dle, obtuse, nearly equally tapering to both ends, leathery, 
