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ed, few flower bearing toward the distal end, the ultimate 

 branchlets very short and thickened at the ends; pedicel 

 also glabrous, slender, 1 cm. long,- gradually enlarged; calyx 

 comprised of 4 short triangular leathery teeth, 1 mm. in 

 length, glabrous; petals 4, valvate, forming a subglobose bud, 

 very thick, also glabnms, 5 to 6 mm. long including the 

 concrete base, ovately oblong or elliptic, with an acute apex, 

 the thin marginal portion inflexed, subequal, the larger ones 

 usually depressed along the median line from the back; sta- 

 mens 4, alternating with the petals; filaments inserted around 

 the ovary, 1.5 mm. long, fusiform, glabrous and pointed at 

 the distal end, short hir.'^ute; anther ovate, deeply divided at 

 the base, basifixed, 1.25 mm. long, very minutely papillose, 

 the cells opening laterally upon the ventral sides; ovary finely 

 hispid, imbedded, the exerted portion irregularly rugose and 

 flatly conical, terminated b.y 4 lighter brown puberulent ses- 

 sile stigmas. 



Type specimen number 13094, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Discovered on seepage ledges covered with a thin layer 

 of earth along a densely wooded creek of a deep ravine at 

 7ii0 feet altitude. 



There are a number of distinct characters distinguishing 

 it from P. javends Blm. What P. nepahnsis Benn. is I 

 do not know. 



SOLANACEAE 

 Solanum sparsiflorum Elm. n. sp. 



Perennial herb; stem green, crooked, spiny, 1 m. long 

 or less, rebranched all along from near the base, the young 

 tips stellately hairy. Leaves opposite or occasionally alternate, 

 variable as to size and lobulation, in general outline elliptic 

 or ovately oblongish, the smaller ones nearly entire, the 

 larger ones 5 to 8 cm. long without the petiole and by 3 

 to 4 cm. wide across the middle or a trifle below it, apex 

 bluntly obtuse, base broadly obtuse and oblique or subtruncate, 

 the larger lamina with 2 to 3 roundish shallow lobes on 

 each side, submembranous, paler green beneath, flat, strigose 



