March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2853 



distinctly marked with cystoliths, horizontally spreading or 

 descending; midrib prominent beneath especially toward the 

 base, gradually curved, dirty strigose beneath; basal pair of 

 lateral nerves parallel with the edge and extending to about 

 the middle of the length of the blade, obscure; the 2 to 

 3 extra pairs of lateral nerves from above the middle of 

 the lamina, ascendingly curved from the midrib, very ob- 

 scure, reticulations none; stipular bracts caducous, linear, 

 about 5 mm long, pseudostrigose. Inflorescence grayish green, 

 odorless; heads pistillate only, chiefly from the upper leaf 

 axils, sessile, flattened, 5 mm across or smaller; outer pair 

 of involucral bracts unequal in size, 2 to 3 mm long, 1.25 

 to 1.75 mm wide, membranous, united at the base, ovate 

 to elliptic, apex acute, few nerved, green especially toward 

 the rather thick point, pubescent on the outside; inner 

 pair alternating with the outer pair, narrowly oblong, the 

 middle region toward the apex green, hyaline margins 

 densely ciliate; bracts around the inner region of the in- 

 volucre 2 mm long, broadly lanceolate, greenish especially 

 toward the acute apex, also densely hairy along the edges; 

 flowers promiscuously spreading; bracteoles linear, varying 

 from 0.5 to 1.25 mm in length, greenish toward the blunt 

 apex, hyaline and smooth toward the base, more than the 

 upper one half long ciliate; pedicel of ovary very short, 

 greenish tinged, glabrous; ovary scarcely longer, fusiform, 

 only as thick as the pedicel but deeper brown in color, at 

 the apex provided with hyaline widely spreading hair-like 

 stigmas. 



Type specimen number 12421, A. D. E. Elmer, Magal- 

 Lines (!Mt. Giting-giting), Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 



Collected in red soil packed in between rocks upon a 

 seepage precipice along the Pauala river at 1750 feet alti- 

 tude. Its local Visayan name is "Ulmian." 



This number was distributed under Elatostema sessile Forst. 

 but the late Dr. C. B. Robinson after studying the group 

 in European herbaria informed me that it is a new 

 species. The type specimen is in the Royal Botanic Garden 

 of Edinburgh. 



