1846 Leaflets ok Phil[I'F'ine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 9.*^ 



young green and .strigosely pubescent, turning yellowis^h ;in^ 

 finally flesh red as well as becoming entirely glabrous and 

 somewhat juicy. 



Type specimen number 12077, A. D. E Elmer, Magalla- 

 nes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Sibuyan, March 1010. 



Collected along brooks of dense woods in loose stony soil ' 

 at I7o0 feet altitude on the Espafia side of the divide. 



Glronniera celtidifolia Gaud, is based upon Cuming'' s number 

 870 and which is an exact in;itch for my number 7084 from the 

 lowlands of Leyte. This same species the writer found very com- 

 mon in the rich forested flats of Surigao peidnsnla. My inniiber 

 7388 from the subalpine region of Mount Banahao on the Luc- 

 ban side is the same species as here described. 



URTICACEAE 

 Elatostemma pulg^arense Elm. n. sp. 



Creeping and somewhat succulent herbs; stem 3 to 5 

 dm. long, branched, the ultimate ones suberect, dark g'e^^n, 

 glftbrous, taking root at the basal joints. Leaves nsuilly 

 toward the distal end, subcoriaceous, ascending or horizon- 

 tal, glabrous, flat, dark green on the upper side even so in 

 the dry state, densely covered with minute cystaliths, alter- 

 nate from the slightly zigzag distal end of the branchlets, 

 the larger ones nearly 1 dm. long and 2 cm. wide across its 

 widest portion, oblanceolate or oblong, a trifle inequilateral, 

 the a'aiminnte apex sul)falcate, the obtuse base more distinctly 

 inequilateral, much paler green beneath even in the dry state, 

 entire; midrib brown and glabrous beneath, usually with an 

 unequally prominent lateral basal pair and an extra one a 

 little further up, all of these ruaning nearly parallel with 

 the leaf edges and connecting with the 2 to 3 faint divMri- 

 cate pairs, reticulations none; petiole 3 to o mm. long, gla- 

 brous, brown when dry; stipules oblong, hyaline, excee<ling 

 the petioles, caducous. Inflorescence axillary, the stuminate 

 slenderly stalked, the pistillate sessile or sub8e.ssile, odorless; 

 heads I to 1.5 cm. wide, sessile in the leaf axils, mncli 

 flattened, parted, subtended by 2 invohi'T:il liricts, compos- 

 ed of 4 subsidiiry erect heads; outer brails 5 mm. long, 



