March 27, 1015] 



Two Hundred Twknty Six New Species— II 



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pistillate flowers clustered upon the somewhat congested ends 

 of the branchlets, subtended by minute bract vestiges or 

 ebracteolate; pedicels 1 to 3 mm long, subterete, glabrous, 

 persistent, stout; florets articulate to the distal end of the 

 pedicel; perianth 5-parted, the segments slenderly laciniate; 

 ovary sessile, ovoidly elongated, terminated by 3 hair-like 

 stigmas; fruiting perianth segments 4 mm long, well united 

 around the base, broadly lanceolate, the apical 2 mm por- 

 tion seta-like, brown and minutely purple spotted, glabrous, 

 the sides ventrally folded especially toward the apex, rotate- 

 ly spreading with the slender point curved and twisted; 

 staminodes flat, glabrous, opposite the perianth segments 

 and inserted upon their bases, persistent with them, 0.75 

 mm wide, rounded or truncate at the distal end. Seeds 

 lenticular, dirty brown, becoming easily detached, smooth, 

 1.33 mm across, sessile. 



Type specimen number 14251, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



Collected from large bowlders lying in the deeply shad- 

 ed Catangan creek bed at 2500 feet altitude. 



My number 13491 collected in this general region is 

 certainly not the same species, though it is identical with 

 PeUionia laciniata Elm. Neither do I think that our new 

 species here proposed is the same as Pellionia sinuata (Blm.) 

 Boerl. a very imperfectly known species. 



Procris frutescens nervosa Elm. n. var. 



Reclining shrub; stem nearly 5 cm thick, terete, 2 to 

 3 m high or long, crooked, branched from below the middle; 

 wood dark brown, odorless and without taste, rather hard 

 and closely grained, the duller brown pith quite prominent; 

 bark relatively thick, brown, coarsely but deeply checked; 

 branches reclining, freely rebranched, the ultimate ones 

 slender and descending. Leaves heavy and succulent, descend- 

 ing or horizontal, very dark green and glabrous on the 

 upper side, alternatingly scattered toward the ends of the 

 twigs, much paler beneath and densely covered with minute 

 cystolith8, the midrib nerves and reticulations provided with 



