APRIL 20, 1912] ` Two Score or New PLANTS 1511 
Lunasia reticulata Elm. n. sp. 
A strict shrub; stem 2.5 em. thick or thicker, 1 to 5 m. high, 
terete, unbranched or nearly so; old wood odorless, bitter, pale 
white, rather hard and strong; bark yellowish brown, smooth, 
the young twigs covered with minute scurfy scales. Leaves 
mainly toward the top, ascending, chartaceous, flat, deep green 
and sublucid on the upper surface, much paler beneath, alter- 
nate, obovately oblong, margins entire, the average blades 3.5 
dm. long, 1.5 dm. wide toward the apex, glabrous, curing grayish 
brown above and greenish beneath, apex abruptly aeute or blunt- 
ly obtuse, cuneate at base, beneath minutely black punctate; 
midvein very stout and prominent beneath, flattened on the 
upper surface, dull brown in the dry state, densely sprinkled with 
yellowish brown scales especially beneath; the 15 to 20 lateral 
pairs of nerves oblique, strict, relatively bold beneath, tips inter- 
arching, reticulations numerous and conspicuous from both sides; 
petiole terete, green, much ascending, more or less swollen at both 
ends, 8 em. long, also sealy. Inflorescence from the uppermost 
leaf axils, varying from 5 cm. to 3 dm. in length, ascending, only 
sparingly branched, yellowish green and densely yellowish brown 
scurfy, the spikes ridged; flowers odorless, sessile, clustered, 
alternatingly scattered, all the branches densely seurfy, um- 
bellately scattered; buds globose, sessilely clustered at the distal 
ends of the branchlets, subtended by 3 very short and pulveru- 
lent bracts; perianth glabrous, hyaline except the midvein, oblong- 
ish when in full anthesis, acutely pointed, its sides usually rolled 
in upon the ventral surface; stamens 3, the glabrous filaments 
0.25 mm. long, united at the base, otherwise divarieately spread- 
ing; anthers pale white, 0.5 mm. long, truncately oblong or ends 
slightly emarginate, dorsifixed, laterally dehiscent; fruits upon 
short thick stalks, dark brown, pulverulent, 1.5 em. high, 2.5 
em. wide across the top when in full dehiscence, 3-carpellary, 
falsely united below the middle, truncate at the apex and with 
a rigid outwardly extended point, transversely ridged, dehiscing 
along the apical and ventral sutures, each cell 1-seeded, the black- 
ish and shining seed surrounded by a bony endocarp. 
Type specimen 12119, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 
1910. 
