March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species-II 2845 



baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 

 ober, 1912. 



Discovered in black soggy alluvial soil among jungles 

 at the lower end of lake Danao at 4750 feet altitude. 

 "Damay" is the Manobo name. 



The luteus to aurantiacus fruits at once distinguish it 

 from the red to crimson fruited Debregeasia angustifolium C. B. 

 Rob. an alpine northern Luzon plant. Only one shrub was seen. 



Elatostema agusanense Elm. n. sp. 



Rather coarse or large tufts; stems several, ascending 

 or the outer ones reclining at the base, varying from 1 to 

 4 dm long or high, usually curved, curing dull green and 

 striate or longitudinally grooved, slender when compared 

 with their lengths. Leaves chiefly above the middle of the 

 stems which are unbranched, alternate, curing very unequal- 

 ly greenish brown on the 2 sides, much darker green on 

 the upper glabrous side, cystoliths minute, duller or appear- 

 ing imbedded on the lower surface, glabrous except the 

 nerves beneath, rather abruptly terminated into the acute 

 to acuminately recurved apex, slenderly or more common- 

 ly broadly cuneate toward the obliquely acute or usually 

 obtuse base, the scattering basal leaves much reduced, 

 the basal one third entire, inequilateral, otherwise serrate- 

 ly dentate, the lower edge of the broader side much curv- 

 ed, elongated though the widest portion is usually a trifle 

 above the middle, the smallest ones broadly oblanceolate 

 in outline or the shorter obovate in general outline; the 

 average normal leaves 12 cm long by one third as wide 

 just above the middle but frequently smaller especially those 

 on the smaller stems; midrib pronounced beneath and yellow- 

 ish gray tomentulose, slightly and gradually curved, canicu- 

 Iate along the upper side at the base; lateral nerves 5 to 

 7, usually the broader side with 1 or 2 more than the up- 

 per or narrower side, the basal pair not arising from the 

 same place though both running subparallel with the mar- 

 gins and extending to the middle of the leaf, upper nerves 

 ascendingly curved, their tips coarsely reticulated and unit- 

 ed, reticulations atong the midrib relatively scarce; the lower 



