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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vnr, Art. 121 



very numerous, stramineous brown, linear, 1.25 mm. in 

 length, with a hyaline crest along 1 side, slightly curved, 

 darker brown pointed at the ends, dehiscing through 

 the shredded submembranous grayish white walls of the 

 ovary. 



Type specimen number 18026, A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

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

 July, 1917. Collected along the creek bottom of the so- 

 called crater. 



A very coarse plant whose leaves are smoother 

 and whose spikes are twice as large than in Freycinetia 

 Hgida Elm,. 



Freycinetia subflagellata Elm. n. sp. 



A large tree climber. Branches rather long, hang- 

 ing and curved, 2.5 cm. thick, ascending toward the 

 leaf bearing end. Leaves numerous, densely crowded, 

 gracefully recurved, the reduced subflorescent ones dull 

 red at or toward the base, 2.5 cm. wide, 7 dm. in length, 

 very slenderly tapering into the subflagellate point, sharply 

 serrate toward the base and minutely so toward the top, 

 basal portion strongly condu plicate, margins of the point 

 conspicuously involute, curing equally brown on both 

 sides; mid vein keeled and finely serrate along the slender 

 tip and grooved along the upper side of the blade; stipule 

 up to 5 cm. long by 5 to 8 mm. wide, chartaceous, adnate 

 the whole length and entire, infrutescence terminal, upon 

 a short common stalk; secondary stalks or peduncles 

 yellowish, 5 cm. long, rather slender, pulverulent and 

 longitudinally edged with closely set serratures; head 

 3 to 5-clustered, 15 cm. long, 4 cm. thick, outwardly curved 

 toward the top. nearly terete; drupes 1.25 cm. long, the 

 contiguous angular sides yellowish, prominently constricted 

 toward the apex in the dry state; the apex conically 

 angled, red when fully mature, terminated by a flat more 

 or less circular stigmatic portion and on which are seated 

 normally 5 stigmas; seeds very numerous, 1 mm. long, 

 linear, subfalcate, brown especially at the ends, dissem- 

 inating through the lacerated basal portion of the ovary. 



Type specimen number 17967, A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

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

 July, 1917. Collected in the vicinity of the coffee plan- 

 tation. 



Leaves narrower and the apical portion of drupes quite 

 different from Freycinetia banahacnsis Elm, which has yellow 

 ish not wine red inflorescent leaf bases. 



