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ciliate. Flowers very numerous, the achenes oblong, 0.8 mm 

 long, brown, cylindric. 



Samar, Catubig River, Bur. Sci. 34117 Ramos, February, 1916. 

 In damp forests at low altitudes. 



This species is perhaps as closely allied to Elatostema harurin- 

 gense Elm. as to any other species, but differs radically in numer- 

 ous characters. It is at once distinguishable from the above 

 species in its scabrous leaves and in the type of its hairs, Elmer's 

 species having softly pubescent leaves. 



PIPTURUS Weddell 

 PIPTURUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS sp. nov. 



Frutex dioicus, 2 ad 3 m high, ramis rubro-brunneis, hir- 

 sutis; fohis coriaceis, rigidis, lanceolatis, in siccitate pallidis, 

 5 ad 9 cm longis, "1.3 ad 2 cm latis, tenuiter acuminatis, basi 

 obtusis, 3-nervis, margine crenato-dentatis, utrinque scabridis, 

 subtus dense cinereo-puberulis et ad costa nervisque adpresse 

 strigoso-hirsutis, nervis utrinque 2 vel 3; floribus 2 capitulatb- 

 fasciculatis, fasciculis spicatim dispositis, spicis 1 ad 2 cm 

 longis, axillaribus, fasciculis 3 ad 5, 3 ad 4 mm diametro; ache- 

 niis ovoideis, 1 mm longis, breviter ferrugineo-pubescentibus. 



A dioecious shrub, 2 to 3 m high, the branches and branchlets 

 dark reddish-brown, more or less hirsute with short, stiff, pale 

 hairs. Leaves coriaceous, rigid, brittle, lanceolate, pale when 

 dry, 5 to 9 cm long, 1.3 to 2 cm wide, narrowed upward to the 

 rather slenderly acuminate apex, the base obtuse, the margins 

 crenate-dentate, the upper surface scabrid, sometimes with a 

 very few scattered hairs, the lower surface paler than the upper, 

 scabrid, the midrib, nerves, and reticulations appressed-strigose- 

 hirsute and densely cinereous-puberulent on the surface; basal 

 nerves 3, ascending, reaching to or beyond the middle of the 

 leaf, the lateral nerves above the basal pair 2 or 3 on each side 

 of the midrib, distinct, as are the reticulations ; petioles 5 to 10 

 mm long, densely cinereous-hirsute; stipules lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, deciduous, about 5 mm long. Female flowers in spicately 

 arranged fascicles, the spikes axillary, solitary, 1 to 2 cm long, 

 the fascicles 3 to 5 on each spike, glabrous, dense, many-flowered, 

 3 to 4 mm in diameter; bracts lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 2 to 3 mm long. Flowers numerous, crowded, ses- 

 sile. Achenes ovoid, 1 mm long, ferruginous-pubescent with 

 short hairs; styles 1.5 to 2 mm long, deciduous, pubescent. 



Leyte, Dagami, Bur. Sci. 15320 Ramos, August 6, 1912. In 

 thickets along streams at low altitudes. 



