July 3, 1913] Palawan AcAXTnACEAE 1687 



less than one half as large, sparsely yellowish strigose es- 

 pecially on the upper side; the young leaves conduplicate 

 and densely fiilvu^ pubescent; midvein beneath dirtj'^ yellowish 

 pubescent; the lateral nerves 6 to 7 pairs in the average blades, 

 ascendingly curved, reticulations obscure; petiole 2.5 cm. 

 long, olivacens pubescent, strict, much shorter for the smaller 

 leaves. Iti florescence in the terminal leaf axils, few flowered, 

 subtended by a series or whorl of foliaceous bracts; the green 

 bracts ascending, oblongish, the longer ones 2 cm. long, 5 

 to 8 mm. wide across the middle, yellowish brown ciliate 

 pubescent on both sides, subentire toward the base and 

 coarsely crenately toothed above the middle, soft membra- 

 nous; flowers subtended by a pair of linear ascending bracts; 

 bracts 7.5 mm. long by 1.5 mm. wide, obtuse at apex, 

 more tapering toward the base, greener above the middle 

 and more ciliate; hairs hyaline, distinctly jointed; sepals also 

 erect, 4 to 5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, rather lanceolately 

 constricted toward the sparsely ciliate apex, falsely united at 

 thg base, 5 in number; corolla bud glabrous, ellipsoid, dark 

 brown; corolla white and tinged with pink or purplish, 

 nearly 2 cm. long, gradually expanded at the throat, tubular 

 toward the base, a trifle hairy on the exterior at about the 

 middle, the 5 lobes subrotund or elliptic; fertile stamens 4, 

 inserted on the tube above the middle; the filaments unequal 

 in length, glabrous, the longer pair 3 mm. long, the shorter 

 ones one half as long; anther broadly oblong, 1.25 mm. 

 long, bilobed at base, basifixed, the connective extended into 

 a slender point in the young state; ovary glabrous, bearing 

 a slender curved style and a small stigma. 



Type specimen number 13249, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 



Discovered in rich soil of dense forests at 750 feet alti- 

 tude along the trail to Napsan. Very rare! 



ERANTHEMUM Linn. 

 Eranthemum minutiflorum Elm. n. sp. 



Erect and suffrutescent plants; stem unbranched, 3 to 12 

 dm. high but usually only 2 dm., tightly fastened to the 

 ground by its long tough and numerously branched roots, 



