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long, 1.23 mm wide toward the base; corolla erect, slightly 

 imbricate, nearly free, as many as there are calyx segments, 

 3.5 mm long by 1.5 mm wide across the base, ovately 

 elongated, glabrous, rounded at the apex, similarly spotted 

 all over, sides more or less folded or rolled upon the ven- 

 tral surface; stamineal rim 0.5 mm wide, glabrous; stamens 

 10, erect; filaments 0.25 mm long T arising from the edge of 

 the rim, also glabrous, 1.25 mm long, auriculately truncate 

 at the base, flattened, dehiscing laterally, the connective ex- 

 panded at the apex by a conspicuous purplish streaked and 

 finely lacerated membrane; ovary 2.5 mm long, short el- 

 lipsoid, glabrous, bearing a terete 1 mm long striate style, 

 about 4-ovuled. Fruit in axillary fascicles, ascending or 

 divaricately spreading, upon green axillary tubercles usually 

 provided with a series of small bracts; pedicels very slender, 

 1.5 cm long, glabrous, strict; capsule green, 3-seeded, shin- 

 ing, obcurely 3-angled, otherwise nearly globose, 1 cm long, 

 terminated by a conspicuous point, subtended by the rotately 

 spreading 5-lobed calyx rim and by the subpersistent ob- 

 long petals, both the middle dorsal region of the calyx 

 segments and the free petals cinereous. 



Type specimen numbers 12724 and 12793, A. D. E. El- 

 mer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Collected the first or flowering number in dry compact 

 soil of light woods at 50 feet altitude. The latter or fruit- 

 ing specimens were found in gravelly soil along wooded 

 stream banks at 250 feet elevation. 



This species and variety may more properly belong to 

 Euphorbiaceae than to Violaceae. 



Viola apoense Elm. n. sp. 



Annuals, more or less creeping by stolons or runners, 

 occasionally forming patches; stolon slender, glabrous, straw 

 brown on the dry specimens, greenish when fresh, up to 8 

 cm long; rootstock or underground stem suberect, 1 to 3 cm 

 long, amply provided with fibrous roots. Leaves ascending, 

 alternatingly clustered toward the distal ends of the root- 

 stock, scattering in all directions; petioles very slender, vary- 

 ing from 1 to 3 cm long, somewhat compressed and winged 



