374 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Art. 114 
inserted upon the concrete calyx throat, erect, the 5 lobes 
7 mm long, united toward the base, oblongish, the margins 
inwardly eurved especially toward the obtuse and somewhat 
recurved apex, membranous, glabrous, white; stamens 5, in- 
serted upon the base of the «corolla and alternating with | 
their segments, included; filament nearly 2 mm long, gla- j 
brate, compressed, basifixed, tapering from the base to the 1 
apex; cells lateral and laterally dehiscent toward the base; 
style very short, terminated by a deep brown  pulverulent 
2 mm long and relatively thick more orless angular ellip- 
soid stigma; placentae of 2 elongated pendant lobes and ex- 
tending along the central axis; ovules numerous in the upper 
region. 
Type specimen number 13208, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 
Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
It seems to differ in a number of details from  Penta- 
phragma aurantiacum Stapf from mount Kinabalu of British 
North Borneo. : 
CAPPARIDACEAE 
?| Cleome acutifolia Elm. n. sp. 
Usually solitary or occasionally clustered biennials; tap 
root thick, terete, white, rigid, crooked or twistingly curv- 
ed; stems erect, 3 to 4 dm high, terete, green, striate, 
glabrate or with minutely glandular hairs, usually branched 
from the base, seldom short branched from above the mid- 
dle; basal branches relatively short and unbranched, ascend- 
ingly curved. Leaves exceedingly variable in size, copious, 
alternatingly scattered, withering on the old stems toward 
the base, easily wilting, 3 to 5-foliate; leaflets unequal in 
size, ascending, minutely glandular especially beneath, the 
entire margins finely ciliate, a trifle paler green beneath, 
turning brownish while drying, membranous, usually folded 
upon the upper side, 1 to 3 cm long, 5 to 8 mm wide 
across the middle or widest portion, acuminately pointed, 
base narrowly or slenderly cuneate, fusiform or occasionally 
oblanceolate; midrib more prominent beneath especially to- T 
ward the base, similarly glandular; lateral nerves 3 to 5 Sep 
pairs, much ascending and curved, finely hirsute and glan- 
