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nute purple spots or streaks, glabrous; head 1 cm across, 

 broadly cup shaped; involucre of 2 pairs of very unequal 

 oppositely arranged bracts, the outer bracts broadly ovate, 

 5 mm long, glabrous, united toward the base, minutely 

 purplish spotted except the transparent margins, the green 

 keel on the back rather conspicuous; the alternating pair 

 of involucral bracts much narrower and more hyaline; 

 Btaminate florets grouped in 4's, surrounded by involucels; 

 bracteoles 4 mm long, obovately oblong, greatly varying in 

 width, very thin and transpai-ent except the evident mid- 

 vein, truncately rounded at the apex; pedicels 3 mm long, 

 transparent and ribbon-like, subtended by a. whorl of thin 

 hyaline secondary bracteoles which are a trifle shorter and 

 relatively narrower than the primary involucral bracts; per- 

 ianth 2 mm long, transparent, 4-segmented, the segments 

 ovate to elliptic, with acute apices bearing a single spicule 

 on the back; filament 15 mm long, short in the young 

 state; anther 1 mm long, basifixed, divided toward the 

 apex, the bud position becoming reversed in the process of 

 anthesis. 



Type specimen number 14249, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ember, 1912. 



Associated and mixed with the preceding species or 

 number 13831, collected in the wet ground of darkly shaded 

 forests in the lake Danao basin at 5000 feet altitude. 

 Leaves thicker, their nerves beneath distinctly umbrinus 

 and only one half as large as in Elatostema carinoi Shaw, 

 the type of which has much shorter staminate peduncles. 



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Elatostematoides sublaxum Elm. n. sp. 



Large suffrutescent tussocks; stems several, ascending 

 from the base but the upper portion strongly recurved, 2.5 

 cm thick, terete, branched from near the base, 2 to 3 m 

 high; bark dull green, smooth; wood dingy white, odorless 

 and tasteless, with a large hollow pith; branches laxly re- 

 branched and forming interlaced masses; twig3 usually curved 

 upwards, subterete and obscurely fluted, usually curved or 

 twisted, glabrate when old, the younger ones puberulent 



