Makch 27, 1915] 



Two Hundred Twenty Srx Nkw Spkciks — II 



2867 



Ehner, Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agtisan, 

 Mindanao, September, 1912. 



The first number was collected in the moss laden woods 

 at 6250 feet altitude of mount Urdaneta and was called by 

 the Monobos "Cawing-cawing." Tbe last number was collect- 

 ed in very wet and stony soil of the dense forests at 5000 

 feet height in the lake Danao basin and was called "Pering" 

 by tbe same natives. 



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Procris volubilis Elm. n. sp. 



A low climber along small stems and over rotten stumps; 

 stem the size of an ordinary lead pencil or thicker, flexi- 

 ble, terete though the larger ones are longitudinally fluted, 

 crooked and inclined to twine, rather closely attached to its 

 support, repeatedly branched toward tbe top; woody tissue 

 white, pith large and greenish, covered with smooth grayish green 

 bark; branchlets much curved, the longer ones drooping and 

 rebranched, th^ apical portion pale green though nearly black 

 when dry, glabrous, the tips ascendingly curved; roots from 

 the under side of the stems and larger branches. Leaves 

 flat, descending, thinly coriaceous, dark green above and 

 much paler beneath, curing blackish brown on both sides, 

 without cystoliths, glabrous, exceedingly variable in size, al- 

 ternate, usually slightly inequilateral, the acuminate to cau- 

 date apex recurved, tapering toward the obtusely rounded 

 base, elongated and usually widest just above the middle, 

 that portion below the middle entire, otherwise bluntly den- 

 tate even along the apical point, the larger ones nearly 2 

 dm long by 7 cm wide across the widest portion, those ou 

 number 13356 considerably smaller; midrib prominent beneath, 

 glabrous, flat above, black beneath when dry; lateral nerves 

 7 to 10 pairs, ascending, only a trifle curved, more numerous 

 toward the apex, relatively prominent and similar in color, 

 very obscure toward their distal ends, secondary intervening 

 nerves and cross bars faint; petiole 5 mm long or less, glab- 

 rate or puberulent along the upper flattened side, ater when 

 dry; stipule caducous, 1 cm long or shorter, membranous, 

 glabrous, brown, folded, linear, setaceously pointed. Inflor- 

 escence odorless, scattered along tbe stem branches and even 



