ArausT 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1767 



Nicolaus Turczaninov, a Rupsian botanist. 



Capparis mucronata Elm. n. sp. 



A small tree climber or a straggling shruh; stem quite 

 rigid, 2.5 cm. thick, terete, curved, only sparingly branch- 

 ed toward the top with sharp yet minute spines at the 

 ends of the leaf scars; wood white, soft, quite odorless and 

 tasteless, with a large watery white pith; hark yellowish green 

 or gray, the hypodermis dark green, beneath this latericius, 

 the inner side whitish; branches long, green, tough, the free 

 dangling terminal portion very lax and gradually reduced iii 

 thickness. Leaves alternatingly s-cattered all along, pendant, 

 coriaceous, pale green, glabrous, nearly fiat, curing very un- 

 equal in color on the two sides, elliptically elongated, paler 

 green beneath, lucid above even in the dry state, the entire 

 margins curved upon the lower side, the average lamina 15 

 cm. long; by 5 cm. wide, broadly obtuse at base, rounded 

 at apex and terminated by a mucronate point; petiole 1.5 

 cm. long, midrib stout and blackish brown, the 5 to 8 lat- 

 eral nerves ascending, their distal ends curved and coarsely 

 reticulately united, a trifle more prominent beneath, reticula- 

 tions evident especially from the upper side. Panicle suberect, 

 terminal, 2 dm. long and nearly as wide across the base; 

 branches also sparse, divaricate, glabrous, flattened, 1 dm. long 

 or less, flower bearing toward the distal end; pedicels 1 to 

 2 cm. long, likewise glabrous, subcompressed especially toward 

 the distal end; buds hard, green, globose. 



Type specimen number 13080, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Collected in dry gravelly soil in jungled wooddy depressions 

 of the cogonal along the Balsahan river at 50 feet altitude. 



Between C oblongata Merr. and C cumingii M. and R. 

 yet quite distinct from either. 



CLETHRACEAE 

 Clethra pul^arense Elm. n. sp. 



A low stocky tree or shrub-like; branches ascending. 



