Oct. 22, 1919] 



New Woody Plants from Mt. Maquiling 



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obtuse afc the base, entire, the paler nether side minutely 

 punctate and when young pulverulent, finally glabrous, 

 upon slender 1.5 cm. long glabrate petioles, diverse in 

 size, the larger lamina 2 dm. long and 5 cm- wide across 

 the middle but frequently much smaller especially those 

 subtending the inflorescence. Panicle terminal, erect, 

 freely and laxly rebranched, brown puberulent, the main 

 alternating branches arising from near the base and subtend- 

 ed by reduced leaves, cymosely branched toward the top 

 and subtended by correspondingly reduced foliaceous 

 bracts, the ultimate branches and pedicles without sub- 

 tending bracts; pedicels varying from 3 to 7 mm. long, 

 minutely stellate brown puberulent, bracteate toward the 

 distal end; calyx bluntly ellipsoid in the bud, turbinate 

 when in anthesis, 4 mm. long and nearly as wide across 

 the top; involucral bracts imbricate, narrowly orelliptically 

 oblong, obtuse at both ends, gradually reduced toward 

 the base, the upper outer ones 2.5 mm. in length and 

 1.25 mm. wide, ciliate on the edges and puberulent toward 

 the apex on the exposed outer side, the inner glabrous 

 ones linear and ciliate on the margins; flowers about 

 5, all discoid, erect; corolla tubular, b'uish purple, glab- 

 rous, 5 mm. long, thickened or slightly inflated above 

 the middle, with 5 setaceously recurved and twisted 

 segments; stamens very linear, one half as long as the 

 tube, almost entirely included, sharply pointed, basifixed, 

 forming a tube about the style just below the slender 

 recurved stigmatic arms; achenes somewhat compressed, 

 tapering toward the base, 1 mm. long, obscurely ridged 

 or striate, minutely ciliate; pappus profuse, as long as 

 the corolla tube, whitish, equal in length, with a circle 

 of minute bristles mixed in between them at the base, 

 nearly smooth, straight and erect. 



Type specimen number 18064. A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

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

 July, 1917. Gathered upon a very steep ridge near the 

 mount Maquiling cliff rim above the bulala plantation. 



Apparently most closely related to Vernonta vrdane- 

 tentti Elm. from which it is distinguished by its glabrous 

 leaves, longer pedicels and the more elongated involucral 

 bracts which are ciliate along the edges and puberulent 

 on the dorsal apical portion. 



CONVOLVULACEAE 



Erycibe copelandii Elm. n. sp. 



A liana. Stem 1 to 2 dm. thick; main branches 



