Ai'orsT i8, 1913] Four Score of Nkw Plants 1845 



ULMACEAE 

 Gironniera sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 



A lax nnderslirub; stem 3 to 4 m. long, branched from 

 ht'low the middle; branchlets lax and numerous, the younger 

 ones densely covered with strigose hairs; woo<l pale white, 

 odorless and tasteless, rather hard; bark roughened with len- 

 ticels or longitudinally becoming checked, dull brown or 

 grayish. Leaves allernatingly scattering, chartaceous, diverse 

 in size, flat or only the slenderly acuminate to caudate tips 

 recurved, much lighter green beneath, drying grayish brown, 

 the average lamina 5 by 15 cm., unequally sided, obtuse at 

 base, the margins except around the base denticulate, ob- 

 long, both sides appearing minutely blistery, glabrous except 

 the very sparse ciliate hairs especially along the appressed 

 nerves beneath, the young ones strigose on both sides; mid- 

 vein prominent beneath and appressed hairy; lateral pairs 

 7 to 11, also prominent beneath and likewise hairy, ascend- 

 ingly curved, the tips reticnlately united, reticulations numer- 

 ous and relatively prominent beneath; petiole stout, 1 cm. 

 long or much less, densely strigose when young, scaly or be- 

 coming chei'ked when old; stipules caducous, 1.5 cm, long, 

 4 mm. wide, slenderly acuminate, strigose on the back, glab- 

 rous and finely striate on the inner side. Infrutescence 

 axillary or lateral, upon loose few fruited gloraerules; pe- 

 duncle and pedicel short, strigose or subglabrous, usually few 

 branched, articulate at the jwint ot branching, relatively thick, 

 subtended by bracts or bracteoles; bracts hairy on the back, 

 1.5 mm. long, broadly triangular, apex acuminate, yellowish, 

 sides hyaline, subpersistent, unequal in size, midrib keeled; 

 calyx persitJtent, very short and rimlike, obscurely 5-dentate, 

 the apical dorsal portion puberulent, well attached to the 

 ovary; pistillate flower solitary or few from the distal end, 

 i<ubtended by similar bracts; ovary compressed, hirsute, 

 elongated and tapering from the base toward apex, becoming 

 much broadened with age; stigmas of 2 linear forks 5 to 8 

 mm. long, curved and twisted, slightly hairy, united at the 

 ba:^e. Fruits 5 mm. long, flattened, ovate from the side 

 view, sessile, subtended by minute persistent bracteoles, when 



