Oct. 22, 1919] 



New Woody Plants from Mt. Maquiling 



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peduncles up to 2 cm. in length; pedicels crowded from 

 the end of the common stalk, the longer one nearly 

 equalling the peduncle, slender and also green, spreading, 

 after falling leaving a thickend and roughened recept 

 acle; flowers green in the immature state, orange red 

 in an thesis, very flat and with 5 obscure points, appearing 

 star and wheel shaped, up to 1.75 cm. across; sex or- 

 gans small, central and basal, opening at the pentago- 

 nal apex. Pods usually in pairs from somewhat thickened 

 pedicel ends, 10 cm. long, glabrous, green, gradually 

 and sharply pointed, longitudinally dehiscent, subterete, 

 1 cm. thick, with a membranous dissepiment along the 

 inner side of the suture; seeds many, imbricately placed 

 with silky comma upwards, the achene portion 1.5 cm. 

 long, curved and whitish brown margined especially about 

 the rounded basal portion. 



Type specimen numbers 17661 in flower and 18247 

 in fruit, A. D. E. Elmer, Los Bafios (Mt. Maquiling), 

 Province of Laguna, Luzon, June July, 1917. Discovered 

 in very damp forested flats at 1500 feet altitude. 



This remarkably distinct Asclepiadaceae I take pleasure 

 in naming after Herbert F. Copeland who accompanied me 

 on my first trip to the summit of mount Maquiling. 



Toxocarpus rubricaulus Elm. n. sp. 



A sprawling and scandent climber. Branches subte- 

 rete or quadrangular, glabrous, reddish brown when dry, 

 long, tough or wiry. Leaves likewise glabrous, coria- 

 ceous, scattered, opposite, sublucid above, much paler 

 green beneath, upon petioles 3 cm. in length, petioles 

 usually curved at the base and leaving raised circular 

 scars after falling, short oblong or ovately elliptic, short 

 acute, base broadly obtuse or rounded, entire, the larger 

 blades 10 cm. long by 5 cm. wide, midrib conspicuous 

 beneath, the numerous divaricate nerves obscure. Cymose 

 panicle up to 10 cm. long, divaricately rebranched from 

 near the base, axillary, occasionally few fascicled; branches 

 spreading, slender, subtended by minute bracts, finely 

 but densely fulvous pubescent; flowers widely spreading, 

 yellow, faintly fragrant; pedicels longer than the 5-toothed 

 pubescent 2 mm. long calyx whose margins are frequently 

 subhyaline; corolla whitish, glabrous, imbricate in the bud 

 state; petals 5 mm. long, narrowly oblong, rotately spread- 

 ing and twisted, united at the base; pistil spindle shaped, 

 glabrous. Fruit in divaricate pairs, ridged, glabrous, 

 dark green, terete, linear, gradually coming to a sharp 

 point, 10 cm. long, longitudinally dehiscent; seeds 1.5 



