Marcu 27, 1915] Two Honprep Twenty Six New Spxcres —[ 2563 
trate and densely rooted from the closely set joints, crook- 
ed and angular, the joints provided with 1.5 em long lan- 
ceolate and acuminately pointed bracts, at the distal end 
provided with an erect tuft of leaves and usually provided 
with one or more slender runners or new stems; the new 
stem also prostrate, much slenderer and longer, leaf bear- 
ing from the few joints above the middle and likewise pro- 
vided with relatively few roots; roots profuse especially to- 
ward the base of the old stems, fibrous. Leaves alternate, 
scattered along the runners or new stems, tufted at the 
distal end of the old or leafless stem, ascending or horizontal- 
ly spreading, limp or coriaceous, deep green above, much 
paler on the nether side, flat, margins entire, occasionally 
slightly undulate, obtusely rounded toward the apex and 
terminated by a short fine point, base mostly rounded, 
narrowly elliptic or broadly oblong, curing unequally brown ` 
on their sides, the larger lamina 6 cm long and one half 
as wide across the middle or just a trifle below it, usually 
however smaller and some of them much smaller, sprinkled 
on both sides with very appressed chalky white short hairs; 
midrib more densely chalky white strigose beneath, faint on 
both sides, lateral nerves obsolete or very obscurely 3 to 5 
on each side; petioles varying from 2 to 8 cm in length, 
flat or its sides margined, gradually expanded toward the 
base and clasping the stem, grayish strigose especially along 
the edges, green when fresh, ultimately breaking a few cm 
from the base, the remaining persistent portion withering 
and becoming bract-like. Inflorescence arising from the up- 
permost leaf axils, exceeding the foliage, 5 to 8 em long when 
the first flowers evolve; the slender peduncle yellowish short 
pubescent, elongated and subglabrate in the fruiting state 
and occasionally with a foliaceous bract toward the base or 
below the middle; flowers clustered toward the curved top; 
pedicel 3 to 4 mm long, minutely strigose, the upper ones 
at least subtended by foliaceous bracts; bract elliptic though 
with an acute apex, 5 mm long by one half as wide at 
the middle, veiny and similarly strigose; calyx persistent, 
4 mm long and fully as wide across the spreading top, 
turbinate, united below the middle, the balance  5-toothed; 
segments ovately triangular, similarly veined as the bracts, 
