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iculate; peduncles many bracteate; the bracts very similar 
to the stipules except a trifle smaller; pedicels ascending, 
slender, subtended by persistent bracts and usually bibrac- 
teate toward the apex, about 5 mm. long; calyx subper- 
sistent, with a prominent 2 to 3 mm. long stipitate base, 
glabrous; its 4 lobes united at the base, 2 mm. long, im- 
bricate, rather thick, ovately obtuse; corolla also glabrous, 
creamy white, 3.5 mm. long, united below the middle; its 
4 lobes broadly rounded, spreading, strongly curved upon 
the upper side; stamens 4, alternating with the corolla seg- 
ments and inserted upon its throat; filament glabrous, 1 
mm. long, brown; anther broadly oblong, with subtruncate 
ends, as long as its free filament; ovary glabrous, sessile 
upon a succulent rim, apiculate at the apex; fruit globose, 
5 nmm. in diameter, 4-celled; seeds stony, entirely filling 
the cells, solitary, the ventral 2 sides plane, the dorsal side 
coneave, smooth. 
Type specimen for fruit 7784, for flower 9105, A. D. E. 
Elmer, Lucban, Province of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
Only at the summit of the lesser peak of Mount Banahao 
where it is quite common. The writer has also collected it 
on the summit of Mount Santo Tomas, Province of Ben- 
guet, Luzon. 
VIOLACEA E. 
Viola rupicola n. sp.— Biennial to perennial herbs; caudex 
short, sparingly branched, suberect or decumbent, 2 to 
3 mm. thick. Leaves crowded toward the ends, very variable 
in size, spreading, ovate, with cordate bases, apex obtuse, 
the normal ones 18 mm. wide and 24 mm. long, thin, 
flat, margins crenate, strigose above, glabrous beneath except 
the 3 pairs of lateral nerves and the midvein which are. 
also strigose; petioles much varying in length, the longer ones 
5 em., slender, usually strigose; stipule brown, with broad 
bases but with very slender tips, subpersistent; peduncles 
from the upper leaf axils, strigose, ultimately equalling the 
longer leaves, usually with 2 opposite linear bracts at about 
the middle; flowers deflexed, inconspicuous; calyx glabrous, 
3 mm. long, linear lanceolate, 3-nerved, rather straight, 
‘united at the base, each of the 5 segments. provided at the 
