JANUARY 25, 1908] A Century or New PLANTS 318 
long, oblong, sharply inflexed; style glabrous, brown, 1 mm. 
long, bearing a lighter colored terminal stigma. 
Type specimen 9175, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. An undershrub of woods in damp 
deeply shaded soil along water courses at 650 meters near 
the base of Mount Banahao. Only a few plants were observ- 
ed. It may prove only a variety of L. divaricata T. et B. 
Leea congesta n. sp.—Erect or suberect unbranched 
shrub, nearly 2 m. high; stems yellowish brown, obscurely len- 
ticelled, 2.5 cm. thick, crooked at least towards the top. Leaves 
3 to 5 in number, 3 to 7 em. apart, ascending, radially 
spreading, glabrous, becoming dark brown when dry, im- 
paripinnate; leaflets 7 to 9, dark velvety green above, much 
lighter beneath, divaricate and slightly ascending, tough, 
coriaceous, narrowly oblong to lanceolate, obtuse to subtrun- 
cate at the base, apex abruptly terminated into a slender 
point, margins subentire especially towards the base or 
crenately toothed, 2 dm. long, 5 cm. wide, the terminal 
leaflets somewhat larger, the basal ones frequently much 
smaller; petiole 0.5 to 1 em. long, glabrous; nerves very 
prominent beneath, oblique, strict, parallel, 7 to 9 or even 
as manv as 13 pairs, ending in the callous pointed teeth, 
usually also submarginally united, cross bars and reticulations 
rather numerous and conspicuous, peduncle 1 dm. long, rachis 
about 2 dm. long. Inflorescence densely congested, terminal 
or in the axil of the uppermost leaf, about 3 em. thick, 
subsessile, ovoid, or in ovoid clusters upon short stout pe- 
duncles; pedicels slender, 3 mm. long, glabrous; involucre 
4 mm. long, glabrous, chartaceous, the basal two thirds unit- 
ed, divided into 4 obtuse segments, dull pink; calyx creamy 
white, 6 mm. long, the basal two thirds turbinate and united, 
its 4 ovately obtuse segments subreflexed in anthesis; cor- 
olla comparatively thin, united, terminated by 4 obtusely 
rounded 1 mm. long segments which on the outer side are 
spotted with milky dots; stamens 4, opposite the segments 
and inserted upon the throat; filaments 1.5 mm. long, gla- 
brous, flattened, at the base connected with the callous rim 
which coalesces with the inner side of the corolla; anthers 
at least as long, strongly inflexed, lanceolate, purplish at 
