Ai(.i>-T.18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants iRol 



petals alternate with the sepals, linear, truncately rounded 

 at apex, almost 2 mm. long, the dorsal median region pu- 

 berulent, margins much thinner and glabrous as well as the 

 inner side; stamens inserted from around the basal portion 

 of the ovary; filament compressed, 0.2 mm. long, glabrous 

 and dark reddish brown when dry; anther pale yellow, also 

 erect, ba?ifixed, nearly 1 mm. long including the hyidine 

 and minutely emarginate upper one half or more; anther 

 cells only one third as long, auriculate at the base and de- 

 hiscing laterally; ovary elliptically elongated, glabrous, 0.5 

 mm. long, the style twice as long and bearing a minute 

 stigma. Fruits pendant, strongly reticulate wlien mature, 

 green and soft in texture, elongate ellipsoid from the side 

 view, 2.5 cm. long at least, roundly 3-angled, the carpels 

 splitting open from the circular aperture toward the base; 

 seeds immature, globose, whitish, smooth, 2 to 3 along each 

 carpellary suture. 



Type specimen number 12886, A. D, E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Of this remarkable species only one plant was discovereti 

 in the red compact soil of the humid forests at 750 feet 

 altitude. The hollow and somewhat bladdery capsular fruits 

 usually are filled with small black ants who find it an easy 

 way of passing in and out through the apical orifice. 



VITACEAE 

 Leea palawanensis Elm. n. sp. 



Laxly branched shrub, 3 m. high; branches 8pineles.s, 

 glabrous, greenish and numerously provided with yellowish 

 gray excrescences or coarse lenticels. Leaves triangular in out- 

 line, 2 to 3 compoundly branched, alternate, the terminal ones 

 3 to 5 dm. long including the petiole; petiole 1 to 2 dm. 

 long, 5 mm. thick, subteret«, thickened at both ends, glab- 

 rous, only sparsely lenticelled, the upper basal portion chipped 

 and grooved; the basal pair of branches 2 dm. long, also 

 compound, the rachis of all nearly smooth, glabrous, the 

 terminal portion longer and subcom pressed; leaflets 5 to 9; 

 opposite, glabrous, subchartaceous, blackish in the dry state, 



