Makch 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2855 



involucral bracts 2 mm long, several, hyaline and more or 

 less united at the base, miduerve green and keeled toward the 

 obtuse ciliate apex, obovate to obcuneately oblong, sides 

 ventrally folded; the inner segments spathulately linear, short- 

 er; pedicel hyaline, ultimately 2 mm long; perianth 4-seg- 

 mented, 1.25 mm long, oblong, contiguous below the middle, 

 terminated into a point, greenish toward the apex and 

 ciliate along the edges; filaments 4, short when young and 

 inwardly bent, slenderly elongated when old; anther 0.75 

 mm long, basifixed, lobed toward the apex, introrse in the 

 bul state, exerted and reversed when in anthesis; pistillate 

 flowers not seen. 



Type specimen number 13637, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ust, 1912. 



Gathered in stony ground of a deeply shaded sag at 

 the baae of the nearly precipitous incline of Cawilanan peak 

 at 3500 feet altitude. The Manobo name is "Teoy." 



This plant is quite distinct from my number 10514 

 collected in the mount Apo region and determined as 

 Eiato sterna integrifolia (Don) Wedd. 



Elatostema umbrinus Elm. n. sp. 



Small tufts and forming scattering masses; stems 1.5 to 

 2 cm high, very flexible and herbaceous, reclining and taking 

 root toward the base, dull green, dull brown when dry, 

 seldom branched, glabrate, obscurely angular, the upper por- 

 tion ascendingly curved or suberect. Leaves coriaceous, flat, 

 quite numerous but only above the middle of the stem, 

 when fresh velvety dark green above and much lighter green 

 beneath, curing very unequally green on the 2 sides, in al- 

 ternating rows, mainly horizontal, sessile, glabrous except the 

 midrib and larger lateral nerves, the upper side covered 

 with raised grayish white cystoliths which are more obscure 

 from beneath, linear in general shape though the larger 

 ones are distinctly broadened at the base and usually with 

 an obscure lobe on the lower side which is either rounded 

 or terminated into a tooth, 4 to 6 cm long, 7 to 10 mm 

 wide toward the base or widest portion, oblique at the in- 



