

March 27, 1915] 



Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 



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and young tip-? strigoae, curing dull blackish brown. Leaves 

 alternatingly scattered along the numerous branchlets, descend- 

 ing, flit or shallowly curved upon the upper much deeper 

 green surface, marked with eystoliths on the upper Otherwise 

 glabrous side, beneath puberulent or strigose along the midrib 

 and nerves, grayish brown beneath and blackish brown on 

 the upper surface when dry, the older ones subchartaceous 

 while the younger blades are submembranous in texture, 

 the larger ones 15 cm long by one third as wide, the 

 smallest one is barely more than one third as large, grad- 

 dually tapering toward the acute to acuminate recurved apex, 

 the suboblique base obtuse to rounded, inequilateral especi- 

 ally below the middle, broadly lanceolate to subelliptic, 

 entire at the base, otherwise crenate; veins 5 at about one 

 third from the base, 3 arising from near the base but dis- 

 tinctly alternating, the middle or larger one branched 1 

 to 2 cm above the base, the upper branch straight and 

 extending clear into the apex, the lower one from the 

 middle or below it, yellowish gray strigose especially toward 

 the base; cross bars and reticulations also prominent from 

 beneath and raised, the outer cross or secondary branches 

 interarehing; petiole otdy about 3 mm long or subsessile, 

 subolivaceus strigose; bud bract and stipule 7.5 mm long, 

 caducous, slenderly pointed from near the base, glabrous 

 and brown on the ventral and cinereous on the opposite 

 side. Inflorescence sappy white, axillary or lateral, quite 

 easily breaking, in the early state subtended by similar 

 bracts upon subsessile or short stalked glomerules of diverse 

 sizes; peduncle 3 mm long, almost 1 mm thick, green when 

 fresh, puberulent, rigid; involucre apparently a small disk, 

 coriaceous, 4 mm across, terminated into a few blunt 

 points or teeth, minutely ciliate especially along the margins 

 toward the apex, brown in the dry state though appearing 

 transparently punctate; stamens promiscuously scattered, bud 

 ovoid or subglobose and more or less ciliate; bracts of in- 

 voluoels very unequal in size, the longer ones 1.5 mm in 

 length, condnplicate, oblong, few to several in a whorl, 

 obscurely united at the base, obtuse, the smaller ones mere 

 vestiges, sparsely ciliate; pedicel 2 mm long, flattened 

 brown as its subtending bracts, ciliate along the edges; 



