>ct. 22, 1919] 



New Woody Plants from Mt. Maquiling 



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compressed, oblong or obovately so, liberated by the 

 decay of the ovary into ciliated hairs. 



Type specimen number 17812. A D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Bafios (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon, June- 

 July, 1917. Abundant in the jungles around the summit 

 of the mountain. 



Rhaphidophora perkinme Engl, but our plant has more 

 numerous and much smaller leaves whose thinner petioles 

 are less than one half as long. 



Rhaphidophora stenophylla Elm. n. sp. 



A small climbing shrubby plant. Stem tough, terete, 

 15 cm. thick, few branched: twigs glabrous, ringed every 

 2.5 cm. Leaves alternate, well scattered; petiole up to 

 10 cm. lonij, expanded and clasping at the base, grooved 

 along the upper side, rather slender and glabrous; blades 

 subcoriaceous, linear to broadly lanceolate, the average 

 blades 2.5 dm. long and 3.5 cm. wide, gradually tapering 

 to the falcate sharply acuminate apex, entire, obtuse or 

 rounded at the base, glabrous but the lower surface mi- 

 nutely yellowish gray punctate, much paler green beneath, 

 when dry copper brown below and nearly black on 

 the upper side; midrib quite conspicuous and very dark 

 in the dry state, the relatively obscure nerves ascending 

 and only slightly curved. Peduncle terete, 5 to 8 mm. 

 thick, several cm. long, green, glabrous, terminal, usually 

 solitary, ascending and ascendingly bent at the apical por- 

 tion; spike slender, 10 cm. long, fully 1 cm. thick, its spathe 

 early falling: drupes about 5 mm. long, flat and somewhat 

 angular at the expanded top, terminated by a very short 

 central stigmatic point, their contiguous sides finally 

 breaking up into fine bristles; seeds obovoid, compressed, 

 few to several, 2 mm. long, light brown near the base 

 and surrounded by palea. 



Type specimen number 18449. A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Bafios (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon, June- 

 July, 1917. Along the lower edge of the forests. 



Rhaphidophora acuminata Merr, but our leaves average 

 only one half as wide and are subfalcate toward the 

 much more acuminate apex. 



Rhaphidophora trinervia Elm. n. si>. 



A tree trunk climber. Stem toward 5 cm. thick, 

 subterete, with climbing rootlets along the side near 

 the tree. Leaves few, alternate, a meter long or long 

 er, glabrous, coriaceous, upon a stout petiole, the lamina 



