JANUARY 25, 1908] A Century oF New PLANTS 316 
Type specimen 7352, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. Rare in dry dense woods at 
330 meters. 
VITACEAE. 
Leea banahaensis n. sp.—A low undershrub, 1 to 1.5 
m. high; stems erect or suberect, very sparingly branched, 
the thin bark gray, somewhat angled, rooting at the lower 
nodes. Leaves 2 to 3 pairs, toward the top, subcoriaceous, 
obovate, the apex rounded and with an apiculate tooth, the 
lower portion abruptly cuneate and about 2 cm. wide at 
the base, the entire margin equally apiculate or toothed with 
rounded callous tips, the base truncate or emarginate and 
subtended by a pair of 1.5 cm. long ovate foliaceous bracts, 
glabrous, 3 to 5 dm. long, about 2 dm. wide above the middle; 
nerves 13 to 17 pairs, glabrous, more prominent beneath, reticul- 
ations also conspicuous, the straight midrib strong with its 
keel corrugated; petiole 1 to 3 em. long, stout af similarly 
kee:ed. Inflorescence terminal, subtended by diverse foliaceous 
bracts, about 5 cm. long and fully as wide, but more or 1 
less much varyinz in size, usually with 3 stout peduncles; . 
flowers dirty white, cymosely clustered on the ends of the 
thickened peduncles or upon their short branches, the pedicels 
about 3 mm. long; glabrous calyx 2 mm. long, fully as wide, 
4-toothed; petals recurved, 4, nearly 4 mm. long, oblong, 
the edges ventrally turned, the obtuse apices thickened 
and with an inflexed tip, quite rigid; staminal tube 3 mm- 
long, connate, roundly 4-toothed; the 4 anthers included, 
falsely united; filaments 2 mm. long, glabrous and brown; 
the anthers strongly inflexed, 0.5 mm. shorter than the filament; 
apex acute, dehiscing longitudinally along the inner side, 
style slender; stigma minute; berry flattened at both ends, 
otherwise subglobose, yellow, 1 em. thick. 
Type specimen 7509, 4. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. Found in rich soil of dense 
woods at 800 meters on Mount Banahao. It is separated 
from ZL. magnifolia Merr. by its smaller differently shaped 
opposite leaf blades which are subtended by a pair of foliaceous 
bracts, and most conspicuously by its strongly corrugated 
midvein. 
