2594 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. VII, Amr. 114 
seattered and leaf subtended, the terminal ones upon short 
branches, subtended by small obovate bracts; pedicels ascend- 
ing, slender, as long as 2 cm, puberulent but in age gla- 
brate; old heads with the pappus 2.5 cm wide, 2 cm high; 
receptacle flat, pitted but not hairy, involuere campanulate, 
1.25 em across the top, broadly rounded at the base; bracts 
numerous, dry and persistent, strongly imbricated, all obtuse, 
pulverulent on their exposed outside portion, the basal ones 
very short, gradually becoming longer, the Jinear inner or 
or longer ones 7.5 mm long and 1.5 em wide; old or 
withered corolla 8 to, 9 mm long, tubular below the middle, 
otherwise somewhat inflated and deep cup shaped, the basal 
portion glabrous, the upper portion finely granular on the 
exterior; segments 5, nearly equal, triangularly elongated, 
averaging 1.5 mm long, inwardly curved; stamens also 5, 
included; filaments thread-like, glabrons, 3 mm long, inser- 
ted upon the basal expanded portion of the corolla; anther 
apparently linear; style terete, relatively thick and fleshy, 
glabrous or sparsely hairy; achene 4.5 mm long, 1 mm 
thick, somewhat thinner toward the base, truncate at the apex, 
longitudinally ridged and light granular, usually a trifle curved 
toward the base; pappus subpersistent, forming a circular 
reddish brown brush, similarly curved, 7.5 mm long, num- 
erous, some few shorter ones intermixed, the longer ones 
a trifle thickened at their distal ends, finely scabrous all 
along, contiguous at the base. 
Type specimen number 13171, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 
Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
In the woods of the forested ridge at 250 feet altitude. 
This may possibly be Vernonia cuneata (DC.) Less. 
CONNARACEAE 
¿y  Connarus urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 
A sprawling and subscandent shrub; stem 3 m long, 
1.75 em thick, terete, branched all along; wood quite hard 
or tough, terete, covered with smooth brown bark; twigs 
horizontally | spreading, rigid, terete, the young tips olivaceus 
ehe Leaves saei nw. subchartaceous, ie 
