297 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. T. ArT: 16 
brown pubescent; stipules 1 cm. long, lanceolate, densely 
pubescent on the outer side, edges usually rolled in over 
the subglabrous ventral side. Paniculate inflorescence ter- 
minating the branchlets, 1 to 2 dm. long, one half as much 
across; branches divaricate, pubescent, the larger ones 
prickly; pedicels as well as the branchlets subtended by 
bracts, about 5 mm. long, densely covered with a yellowish 
gray tomentum,  flexuose: calyx 12 mm. long, tomentose 
on the outer side, united at the base, the 5 segments 
slightly unequal in width, sharply acuminate, rather thick 
and nerved; flowers usually 3-clustered, apetalous; stamens 
numerous, 6 mm. long, inserted upon the calyx rim; filaments 
glabrous, straight, subequal, shgrply pointed; anthers 0.75 
mm. long, nearly as wide, basifixed; carpels glabrous, sub- 
tended by numerous light yellow hairs; styles also glabrous, 
4 mm. long, the stigmatic apex only slightly thickened; 
berries flat, few seeded, shining, nearly black. 
Type specimen 8383, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. It is rather common in 
the limestone formation of the pine region about Baguio, 
and is the only apetalous species known from the Philip- 
pines. The Igorrotes call it Kobat. 
CONNARACEAE. 
Connarus subinequifolius n. sp.—Scandent, numerously 
branched; stems terete, 2.5 cm. thick, tightly lacing the 
stems of its support; wood tough; younger bark  reddish 
brown and densely covered with large lenticels, more or 
less smooth and becoming mottled on the old stems. Leaves 
flat, submembranous, dark green above, paler beneath, al- 
ternate, 1 to 3 dm. long, 3-jugate and imparipinnate, the 
lower ones smaller; peduncles 9 cm. long to the first pair 
of leaflets, glabrous, much thickened at the base; the rachis 
subglabrous, usually 1 cm. extended beyond the ppper pair 
of leaflets and bearing a single large leaflet; petiole 8 mm. 
thick, subglabrous; the leaflets subopposite, oblong, subequal, 
the average ones 12 cm. long and 4.5 em. wide across the 
middle, nearly equally rounded toward both ends, the apex 
with a very short obtuse or acute point, base rounded or 
short obtuse, flat, glabrous above, short brown pubescent 
