AuocsT 18, .19131 Four Score of New Plants 1755 



beneatl), reticulations minute yet very evident benenth; panicle 

 terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils, ascendingly curved, 

 much exceeding the foliage, 1 m. long or less; branches few, 

 divaricate, similarly curved, the ultimate stalks short and 

 bearing rather numerous flowers which are either sessile or 

 short pedicelled, all subtended by caducou:^ bracts even the 

 branches and peduncle; calyx subsessile, subtended by a 

 slenderly acuminate bract 5 mm. long and yellowish gray 

 pubescent on the dorsal siile only; sepals 3, free, ovately 

 elliptic, 4 ram. long, 2.5 mm. wide across the base, denst^ly 

 tomentose on the outside; petals as many, also free, alter- 

 nating with the sepals, similar in shape or more oblongish 

 and more pointed at apex, the sides usually folded upon the 

 ventral side, tips also inwardly curved or bent, the exposed 

 back less tomentose but the overlapping margins glabrous or 

 nearly so, base broad, subequal, the larger ones 6 mm. long 

 and 4 mm. wide at the base; stamens 5, erect, arising from 

 the sinuses of the cushion-like glabrous disk; filaments 2.5 

 mm. long, glabrous, expanded and flattened toward the base; 

 anther ovoidly ellipsoid, shallowly cordate at base and obscurely 

 raucronate at apex, 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, the cells 

 dehiscing laterally; pistil absent. 



Type specimen number 12889, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Found in moist fertile humus covered ground of dense 

 forests along the Napsan trail at 750 feet altitude. 



As to our Philippine species it is nearest allied to my 

 C. laciniatum. 



CAPRIFOLIACEAE 

 Capparis turczaninowii Elm. n. sp. 



A tall tree climber; stem looping, crooked, flexible, te- 

 rete, 7 cm. thick; wood dirty white, porous, tasteless, with 

 a turnip-like odor, pith deep brownish red; old bark thick, 

 grayish whitrt and smooth on the stem, spiny on the branches, 

 green on the twigs. Leaves flat, horizontal, aubchartaceons, 

 glabrous, dark green above, much paler green and drying 

 reddish b-own beneath, the upper surface remainning green- 



