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cm. long, glabrous, very flat and curved upon one side, 

 linear, bearing at the apex a tuft of silky hairs. 



Type specimen number 18297, A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

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

 July. 1917. Amoug jungles of the upper parang formation. 



Its lax more pubescent inflorescence, slenderer petals 

 and larger more coriaceous leaves serve to distinguish 

 it from Toxocarpus loheri Schltr. 



CAPPARIDACEAE 



Capparis viridis Elm. n. sp. 



A rambling subscandent shrub. Twigs rather slend- 

 er, terete, the ultimate one greenish and glabrous, with 

 scattered recurved solitary or pairs of spines along the 

 lower side. Leaves alternate, well scattered, oblong, quite 

 abruptly acute to subacuminate, base obtusely rounded, 

 edges entire, upon 5 to 8 mm. long dark brown petio- 

 les, also glabrous, curing green, the lower surface lighter 

 green, more or less punctate on both sides, the larger 

 blades 12 cm. long by 4 cm. wide; midrid yellowish green, 

 pronounced beneath, the 7 to 10 pairs of lateral nerves 

 divaricate and relatively obscure, reticulations none; stip- 

 ules developed into spines. Infrutescence terminal, corym- 

 bosely racemose or short paniculate, 15 cm. long and 

 nearly as wide, few and short branched, green and gla- 

 brous; fruits upon 2.5 cm. long pedicels, constricted into 

 3.5 cm. long stipes which can only be distinguished from 

 the pedicel proper by the annular vestige of the flower, glo- 

 bose, 2 cm. in diameter, rather hard and dull or yellowish 

 green, crustaceous; seeds few, hard, 1 cm. long, dull 

 brown and rugose, with compressed sides. 



Type specimen number 18061. A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

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

 July, 1917. Gathered in dry jungles at low elevation. 



Very near to Capparis oblongata Merr. from which it 

 differs in its greener leaves which are less conspicuously 

 nerved and more or less punctate on both sides, and 

 especially by its corymbose not paniculate infrutescence. 



COMPOSITAE 

 Vernonia acuminatissima Elm. n. sp. 



A large forest tree. Twigs terete, when young brown 

 puberulent. ultimately glabrous, rather slender. Leaves 

 alternating, lanceolate, membranous, slenderly acuminate, 



