Marca 27, 1915] Two Honprep Twenty Six New Srecies—I 2591 
pairs, ascending and slightly curved except the uppermost 
ones, relatively prominent and similar in vestiture on both 
sides, tips reticulately united, other reticulations coarse. In- 
frutescence terminal from the comparatively short ultimate 
branches, erect or nearly so, 1.5 dm long on our specimens, 
about as wide across the base, quite rigid; branches divari- 
cate, alternate, the basal ones 8 cm long, the upper ones 
one half as long, the lower ones subtended by small leaves, 
straight, thick and rigid, rebranched from below the mid- 
dle, densely olivaceus short tomentose; secondary branches 
short and at right angles, also thick and rigid, similar in - 
vestiture, subtended by deciduous puberulent bracts, 5 to 15 
mm long, few and very short rebranched from above the 
middle; pedicels short, thick, subtended by bracteoles; heads 
usually solitary and terminal, 5 to 8 mm high, subcampanu- 
late; bracts numerous, of diverse lengths, imbricate; lower 
bracts very short and pubescent, acute; the inner 5 mm long 
and only the outer exposed portion of the obtuse bracts 
pubernlent, dry and spreading when old; receptacle flat, 
pitted; achene 3 mm long, constricted toward the base 
and also somewhat enlarged, compressed, frequently curv- 
ed, 1 mm wide across the tip, pulverulently roughened, 
terminated in the middle by a short rather thick and blunt 
point; pappus persistent, dull yellowish brown, 6 mm long 
but’ with many shorter ones intermixed especially at the 
base, very slender and finely scabrid, the’apical portion of 
the longer ones appearing a trifle thickened. 
Type specimen number 12848, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 
Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911, 
On a steep rocky forested incline at 2000 feet altitude. 
This may be Vernonia scandens DC. 
34 Vernonia urdanetense Elm. n. sp. 
A small tree; stem 8 dm thick, 12 m high, crooked 
and subterete, branched from the middle; wood white though 
with a yellowish brown tinge, odorless and without taste, 
soft, light in specific gravity; bark fulvus except the smooth- 
ish yellowish gray surface; main limbs spreading, crooked; 
the slender ultimate ones drooping, short yellowish brown 
