Marca 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Specres—I 2575 
dular, somewhat expanded at the base, varying from 2 to 5 
em in length. Spicate inflorescence terminal, erect, varying 
from & to 15 cm long, the rachis similar to the stem and 
elongating, the older ones bearing pods below and flowers 
at the distal end; flowers promiscuously scattered, subtend- 
ed by reduced leaves, usually solitary, erect, with an unpleas- 
ant odor, in full flower in the early forenoons; pedicels 
averaging 1.25 cm long, green, minutely striate, erect, glandu- 
larly pulverulent, longer in the fruiting state; sepals nearly 
free, 8 mm long, hyaline and with several veins, linear, 1 
to 2 mm wide, finely glandular especially along the mar- 
gins; petals as many, yellow or light yellow toward the 
base, spreading toward the top, alternating with the sepals, 
1 cm long, even more hyaline in the dry specimens but not 
glandular, narrowly cuneate toward the base or even clawed, 
obovate, at least 4 mm wide above the middle, rounded 
or obtusely rounded at the apex, severally veined; stamens 
about 18, ascending, almost equalling the petals in length; 
filaments slender, glabrate, yellow, 6 mm long on an average, 
when young shorter and curved toward the apex; anther 
2 mm long, basifixed, 1 mm wide, nearly straight but the 
young ones strongly curved, linear, blunt at both ends, 
laterally dehiscent; ovary somewhat compressed, linear, 1 
mm wide, 5 mm long, covered with light colored glands; 
style 1.5 mm long and one half as thick, terminated by a 
subcapitate stigma. Capsule 6 cm long, 4 mm wide, subterete 
or compressed, opening along the sutures, ascending, dull 
green, finely ridged longitudinally, minutely hispid, 1-celled; 
seeds numerous, densely arranged along the placental sutures, 
orbicular and flattened, 1.25 mm across, dark brown, longi- 
tudinally ridged around the rounded outer portion. 
Type specimen number 12697, A.-D. E. Elmer, Brooks 
Point (Addison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
Gathered in moist sand gravelly soil along the Lara river 
bed at about 50 feet above sea level. ‘‘Lampotaki’’ is the 
Tagbanua name. 
Cleome viscosa (Linn.) DC. but the tips of our leaflets 
are acute not obovately rounded. 
