January 25, 1908] A CENTURY oF NEw PLANTS 350 
one third united; corolla 9 mm. long, glabrous, tubular about 
one half its length, 2-lipped; the upper lip entire, broadly 
acuminate, 4 mm. long: lower lip about as long, 3-lobed and 
usually with recurved tips, the middle lobe a trifle longer; 
stamens 2, fertile, attached to the inner sides of the cor- 
rolla; filaments flattened, hairy one half way down, tne free 
portion glabrous, darker brown and usually twisted; anthers 
near.y parallel, equalling the corolla segments, elongated, 3 
mm. long, basifixed, 2-lobed at base, introrse, longitudinally 
dehiscent, 2-celled; style very slender, glabrous, shorter than 
the stamens; ovary elongated, brown, glabrous, 2 mm. 
in length; capsule 1.5 cm. long smooth, straw brown, longi- 
tudinally grooved, 1.5 mm. thick, loculicidally dehiscing from 
the apex, the valves strongly divergent; seeds about 12, 
alternatingly attached to both sides of the dissepiment, each 
subtended by a single stout recurved spinescent raphe, much 
flattened, subrotund, 1.25 mm. across. 
Type specimen 7347, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. In rich soil of woodlands and 
associated with Hemigraphis setosa Elm. 
RUBIACEAE 
Uncaria clavisepala n. sp. - Apparently a sprawling shrub; 
twigs umber brown, puberulous or short pubescent, more or 
less angled, slender. Leaves opposite, distichous, 3 cm. 
apart, flat, oblong to subelliptie or obovate, 10 em. long by 
4 em. wide, entire, yellowish pale beneath, glabrous, sub- 
glabrous or very finely pubescent beneath, apex acute to 
acuminate, base rounded; petiole about 9 mm. long, brown 
puberulous; nerves 5 to 7 pairs, much ascending, prominent 
beneath, with very obscure reticulations. Iufloresceuce from 
the upper leaf axils, capitate, numerously flowered, 2 to 3 
cm, in diameter; its peduncle about 4 cm. long, stout, rigid, 
flattened, thickened toward the base, short chocolate brown 
pubescent, each subtended by oblong caducous 5 mm. long 
bracts, articulate and subtended by a similar whorl of 
bracts just above the middle; receptacle hairy; pedicels 3 
to 4 mm. long, yellowish pubescent, slender, straight; calyx 
4 mm. long, similarly pubescent; its 5 segments 2 mm. 
long, subclavate; corolla 12 mm. long, its 9 mm. long slen- 
