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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Akt. 115 



what constricted, green and with 3 parallel veins, margins 

 only transparent, finely ciliate about the stout usually re- 

 curved point; the inner pair of bracts much narrower and 

 a trifle shorter, otherwise similar; staminate flowers severally 

 grouped, subtended by an involucel; brncteoles 4 mm long, 

 2 mtn wide above the middle, the middle region 3-veined 

 and green, the margins hyaline, stout apex constricted and 

 ciliate; main pedicel short at first, becoming few mm in 

 length, subtended by a secondary whorl of involucral brac- 

 teoles; bracteoles averaging 2 mm long, very unequal in 

 width, hyaline except the pale green midrib toward the apex, 

 usually widest above the middle, ciliate along the edges 

 above the middle especially at the apex, obcuneate to linear; 

 pedicel 1 mm long, transparent; perianth 1.25 mm long, 

 very thin, the 4 segments toward the apex sparsely ciliate; 

 filaments very short in the bud state, ultimately elongated; 

 anthers basifixed, cleft from the apex toward the base, 0.75 

 mm long; pistillate heads flat, sessile, 5 mm wide or less; 

 involucre united into a disk, green, coriaceous, divided and 

 terminated into constricted rather prominent points, pubes- 

 cent toward the apex; bracts of involucels 1.5 mm long, 

 hyaline, linear, ciliate toward the apex, the inner bracts 

 shorter and very linear; achene pedicel hyaline, 1 mm long, 

 expanded at the distal end; seed smooth, brown, fusiform, 

 0.5 mm long. 



Type specimen number 14227, A. D. E. Elmer, Mam- 

 bajao, Island of Camiguin, Mindanao, November, 1912. 



Densely spreading and matting rock ledges thinly cov- 

 ered with soil along a streamlet of a humid wooded ravine 

 at about 2000 feet above the surrounding sea. The delicate 

 runners with small scattered leaflets is quite a unique character 

 of this species. 



To be critically considered and studied in connection 

 with Elatostema lutescens C. B. Rob. and Elatostema virides- 

 cens Elm . 



Elatostema pictum Elm. n. sp. 



Small clusters or solitary and creeping; stem fleshy, 

 occasionally branched, terete, pale green, varying from a few 



