ArciusT 18, 1913] Four Score of NK^Y Plants 1793 



above, reticulations minute yet quite distinct from both sides, 

 tbe tips of the nerves reticulately united. Inflorescence from 

 the uppermost leaf axils or terminal, the suberect stalks 

 somewliat compressed, subglabrous or puberulent, usually a 

 few peduncles from the same place, cymosely paniculate from 

 near the base, 2 cm. long more or less, all the stalks sprink- 

 led with lenticels and the branchlets subtended by short 

 thick bracts; pedicel 3 to 4 mm. long, glaucous; calyx 

 persistent, rotate, very thick and roughened upon the chalky 

 white or glaucous back; the 5 segments imbricate and ova- 

 tely rotund, nearly 1.5 mm. long; petals free, 5, imbricatci 

 3.5 mm, long by 2.25 mm. wide, elliptically oblong, trun- 

 cately rounded at both ends, coriaceous, the outer ones usually 

 a trifle larger, curved upon the upper side; ovary flattish, 

 constricted at the base, glabrous, slightly 3-ridged toward the 

 apiculate apex; stamens 3, alternating with the ridges and 

 inserted upon the callous rim toward the apex of the ovary; 

 filaments very short, flat, glabrous; anthers 25 to 0.33 mm. 

 across, somewhat reflexed over the ovary, oval, basifixed. 



Type specimen number 12997, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgai-), Palawan, April, 1911. 



Discovered among thickets of lightly wooded flats of red 

 soil mixed with small rounded stones at 250 feet altitude. 



Salacia subscandens Elm. n. sp. 



A tree climbing shrub; stem subterete or wadded, 2.5 

 cm. thick, quite rigid, numerously branched; wood porous, 

 odorless and tasteless, the outside whitish, the inner latericius, 

 more or less divided into radial sections; bark smooth, gray- 

 ish, castaneus beneath the epidermis; branches numerous, 

 strongly recurved and forming tangled masses more or less 

 hanging from the support, the young terminal portion few 

 striate and glabrous. Leaves submembranous, usually opposite 

 or occasionally alternate, folded upon the upper green and 

 sublucid surface, very unequal in size; the smaller ones 5 

 cm. long and subelliptic, the larger blades 15 cm. long by 

 5 cm. wide across the middle and oblong in shape, drying 

 unequally greenish brown on the two sides, glabrous, apex 

 acuminate, base broadly obtuse, entire or nea'-ly so; midrib 



