2754 



Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



ly ellipsoid, obscurely 5-ridged; seeds numerous, compressed, 

 ater in color, round or short stalked or flatly cordate at 

 the base. 



Type specimen number 11028, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, June, 1909. 



Collected in the upper region of cogonals at about 1000 

 feet . altitude and in compact soil. The Bagobos call it ' Te- 

 lingcaran." 



Apparently distinct from Abehnoschus haenkeanus Pred. 

 It was distributed under an unpublished name. 



MELASTOMATACEAE 



Dissochaeta furfurascens Elm. n. sp. 



Scandent along the tree trunks and sprawling; stem te- 

 rete, 2.5 cm thick, branched all along, flexible; bark yellow- 

 ish brown, shredded, green and smooth on the branches; 

 wood green, soft, odorless and without taste, with a large 

 brown pith; twigs long or slender, the ends drooping, 

 angular and umber scurfy along the sunken sides, brown 

 when dry. Leaves opposite, scattered, mostly descending, 

 subchartaceous, lucid and slightly darker green above, the 

 upper ones much reduced, entire, apex abruptly or gradual- 

 ly short acute; base of the smaller ones obtusely rounded, 

 the larger broadly rounded and occasionally slightly cor- 

 date, ovately elliptic, the average blades 1 dm long by 4 

 cm wide below the middle, curing dark green, the lower 

 side covered with isabellinus stellate hairs or scales especial- 

 ly along the veins and cross bars, easily separating upon 

 drying; midvein straight and most prominent, beneath isa- 

 bellinus scurfy, narrowly caniculate and glabrous upon the 

 upper side, with 2 lateral pairs, the basal pair less con- 

 spicuous and 1 to 2 mm below the edge though parallel 

 with it; cross bars more evident from the lower usually 

 scurfy side, nearly straight and transverse, reticulations very 

 obscure; petiole at most 1 cm long, very densely brown 

 scurfy or tomentose, compressed, widened toward the distal 

 end, ascendingly curved at the base, usually with similarly 

 covered interaxillary bracts or budi. Inflorescence spicately 



