August 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1807 



5 veined, all the veins arising separately at the base and 

 conniving at the blunt apex, margins hyaline and purplish 

 spotted, all bluish; the inner 3 segments alternating and a 

 trifle smaller, deeper blue; stamens erect as is also the 

 perianth, glabrous, the outer 3 inserted upon the base of the 

 inner segments; filaments whitish, glabrous, 2.5 mm, long, 

 flattened and expanded toward the base; anther linear, 2 

 mm. long, shallowly sagittate at the bright yellow base, 

 scarcely wider than 0.5 mm., apex blunt, basifixed; ovary 

 green, globosely ellipsoid, upon a concrete base upon which 

 the inner 3 filaments are attached, 3 mm. in diameter, glab- 

 rous and obscurely rugose around the apex. 



Type specimen number 12900, A. D. E. Elmer ^ Puerto 

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



Forming gregarious masses in low black adobe soil of 

 open flats among light woods at about 250 feet above sea. 



LORANTHACEAE 

 Loraathus shawianus Elm. n. sp. 



Large dense clumps; stems usually thickened at the 

 nodes, several from the nodose 1.5 dm. thick base, terete, 

 2.5 cm. thick or less, rebranched, varying up to a meter 

 to three times as long and hanging as streamers; bark gray, 

 coarsely lenticelled along the stem, finely grayish white len- 

 ticelled on the branches, the young green tips frequently 

 cinereously puberulent. Leaves leathery, not rigid, yellowish 

 green on both sides, glabrous, curvingly folded upon the 

 upper side, opposite, ascending, variable in size, obtusely 

 rounded at apex, base similarly rounded or subtruncate, entire, 

 elliptic, the blades 6 cm. long by one half as wide across 

 the middle, frequently much smaller, curing dull brown on 

 both sides; midrib quite prominent toward the base on both 

 sides, with 2 to 3 very obscure lateral ascending pairs; pe- 

 tiole 5 to 8 mm. long, subcompressed, leaving large scars 

 after falling. Inflorescent spikes ascending, solitary from the 

 leaf axils or few clustered, from 1 to 3 cm. long, green, 

 subtended by brown bracts more or less angular and some- 

 what cinereous; pedicels also ascending, more densely cinere- 



