August 18, 1913] Fom Score ok New Plants 1801 



also 5, free, up to 7 mm. long, all insertel upon a carti- 

 laginons base of the calyx; banner folded but relatively straight, 

 the basal 2 ram. gradually clawed, the lamina rotund, finely 

 veiny and notched at the apex; wings slenderly clawed below 

 the middle, obliquely oblong, straight at the adnate back edges, 

 obtusely rounded at apex, appeiidaged at the base on the 

 upper side only, the lamina veiny; keel^ slightly shorter, 

 slenderly stipitate, linearly oblong, obtusely acute at the apex, 

 folded and bluntly apiculate at the basal upper side; stamineal 

 tube thick, subflavus, glabrous, the slender 1.5 mm. long free 

 filaments ascendingly curved, the upper stamens nearly free; 

 anthers 9, all fertile or nearly so, elliptic, versatile, 0.3ii mm, 

 long, the cells widely parted; pistil 6 mm. long; the linear 

 ovary greenish, appressed pubescent, sessile, subterete, 2.5 

 mm. long; style at least as long, ascendingly curved at 

 apex, glabrous, terminated by a minute dark green stigma. 



Type specimen number 13063, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



This immense liana -like climber was collected in dense 

 fertile forests along the Napsan trail at about 750 feet al- 

 titude. It is quite common and swarms of insects feed upon 

 thet short lived flowers. 



It is neither D. micans nor D. mindorensis of Dr. Jan«t 

 Perkins. 



Derris subalternifolia Elm. n. sp. 



Tall scandent shrub; stem flexible, 7 cm. thick, wadded, 

 crooked, branched toward the top only; branchlets numerous, 

 tough, subterete, the glabrous or pubescent twig portion com- 

 paratively very short and quite rigid; wood porous, dingy 

 yellowish white, odorless and tasteless, the circular central 

 mass surrounded by several peripheral divisions; bark gray- 

 ish brown on the more or less roughened surface, castaneus 

 otherwise, extending in between the divisions and about the 

 central mass. Leaves mostly descending, coriaceous, folded 

 upon the upper rich and deep shining green surface, much 

 lighter green or even yellowish so beneath, opposite or sub- 

 alternate, usually 3-foliate, 1 dm. long or longer; petiole in- 

 cluding the rachis 3 to 5 cm. long, usually curved, 



