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Male flowers numerous, subsessile or the peduncle 4 mm. long, fleshy, succulent, 
the heads 1 to 2 cm. in diameter, the bracts confluent into a fleshy disk, the tips 
scarcely free, flowers surrounded by a inulicaginous, transparent substance. 
Anthers 1 mm. long or less. 
{254 Whitford) jMay; (1234 Borden) June. Growing on wet shaded banks 
subject to constant drip of water in caiion of the Lamao River 550 to 800 m. 
A species apparently related to tlie Malayan Elatostema macrophyllii-m Brongn. > 
4. PROCRIS Juss. 
I. P. laevigata Blume; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 5 (1888) 575. 
(3884 Merrill). On clifl's at 1,000 m. Tropical Asia, Africa, and Malaya. • Not 
previously reported from the Philippines. 
5. BCEHMERIA Jacq. 
1. B. blumei Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 16 (18C9) 1: 204. 
(0078 Leiherg) July; (0056 Elmer) November. Along streams below 100 m. 
Endemic. 
6. PIPTURUS Wedd. 
1. P. asper Wedd: in DC. Prodr. 1 6 (1869) 1: 235.” 
{1?. Whitford) April; {2222 Meyer) December. In thickets near streams below 
100 ni. Common and widely distributed in the Philippines. Endemic. T., 
Dalunot. 
6. VILLEBRUNEA Gaudichaud. 
1. V. trinervis Wedd.; DC. Prodr. 16 (1809) 1: 235.“ 
(2645, 3001 Meyer) February, Maj'; (6978 Elmer) November; (195 Barnes) 
January. In canon of the Lamao River, 200 to 700 m. Endemic. 
7. LEUCOSYKE Zoll. et Mor. 
1. L. capitellata (Poir.) Wedd. 1. c. 235.” 
(283 Whitford) May; (2543, 2544 Merrill) June; (6065 Elmer) November. 
Along streams from near sea level to 900 m. Widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines. Malaya. 
2. L. capitellata var. celtidifolia (Gaud.) Wedd. 1. c. 235.® 
(1149 Whitford) March; (6970 Elmer) November. On exposed ridges 900 to 
1,100 in. Certainly only an ecological variety of Leucosyke capitellata. Endemic. 
PHOTEALES. 
prvOTi:ACii:.i:. 
1. HELICIA Lour. 
1. H. cumingiana Presl ; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 14 (1857) 440. 
171, 118, 456, 460 Whitford) May, July; (1354 Borden) July; (3767 M-errill) 
January; (2599 Meyer) February. On exposed ridges above 1,000 ni. Endemic. 
2. H. philippinensis Meissn. 1. c. 441. 
(836, 1235, 2076, 3060 Borden) May, June; (1510 Ahern’s collector) July; 
(2602 Meyer) February; (342 Whitford) May. In forests above 600 m. En- 
demic. 
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