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No. 1408 (Merrill), March, 1903. Province of Benguet, Mount Santo 

 Tomas, No. 6566 (Elmer), July, 1904. 

 Coelachne hackeli sp. nov. 



A low, spreading grass, rooting in the mud and forming dense mats in 

 shallow water, the flowering branches 3 to 5 cm. high, with much reduced 

 few flowered spike-like inflorescence 1 to 1.5 cm. long, scarcely exserted from 

 the upper sheaths, the empty glumes slightly ciliate at the apex, the 

 flowering glumes pubescent, at least in the lower third. Stems prostrate, 

 rooting at the nodes, the nodes bearded. Sheaths about 1 cm. long, 

 glabrous, those on the flowering branches overlapping; ligule obsolete; 

 leaf blades 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 2 mm. wide or less, acuminate, slightly 

 scabrous above. Panicles slightly purplish, the few branches erect, ap- 

 pressed, 2 to 4 mm. long, each with 2 to 4 spikelets. Spikelets 2-flowered, 

 2.5 mm. long; empty glumes ovate, obtuse or subtruncate, slightly ciliate 

 at the apex, one somewhat larger than the other, 1 to 1.2 mm. long. 

 Flowering glumes 2 mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide, acute, sparingly pubescent 

 on the back, at least in the lower third. Palea about equaling the glume, 

 glabrous. Seed 1 mm. long. Upper spikelet sterile. 



Type specimen No. 5752 (A. D. E. Elmer), Baguio, Province of Benguet, 

 Luzon, March, 1904. Forming dense floating mats on stagnant or slowly 

 running water. 



Specimens of this plant were forwarded to Dr. E. Hackel, of Graz, 

 Austria, who pronounced it to be an undescribed species of Coelachne, most 

 closely related to Coelachne pulchella R. Br., var. simpliuscula (Munro) 

 Hook, f ., and kindly supplied the author with specimens of the latter 

 variety. As Dr. Hackel points out, the species here proposed differs from 

 the above variety in its larger spikelets, ciliated tips of the empty glumes, 

 and pubescent flowering glumes. Two species of this genus, Coelachne 

 pulchella R. Br., and C. brachiata Munro, are credited to the Philippines 

 by F.-Villar, 1 but the record in the case of both species needs verification. 



MORACE^E. 



Ficus propinqua sp. nov. Eusyce. 



A scandent species, the stem 2.5 cm. in diameter or less, with ovate- 

 oblong, cordate, acuminate leaves, villous beneath, and axillary glabrous 

 receptacles. Stems dark brown, the branchlets reddish-brown, densely 

 villous with yellowish-brown hairs. Leaves 9 to 12 cm. long, 3.5 to 6 

 cm. wide, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, beneath the midribs 

 and nerves densely fulvous-villous, the reticulations with few scattered 

 similar hairs, the margins recurred, the base broad, 5-nerved; lateral 

 nerves about 6 pairs, very prominent beneath, apex narrowed gradually to 

 the slender, short acumen; petioles densely fulvous-villous, 1.5 cm. long; 

 stipules thin, brown, subpersistent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2.5 cm. 

 long, 1 cm. wide, glabrous, except the slightly villous midrib above. 

 Receptacles shortly peduncled, 1 to 3, in the axils of the leaves, subglobose, 



1 Nov. App., 321. 1883. 



