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pistillate. Others of the Lanao .collections are less typical. The species is 
allied to P. pedunculata (Forst.) Wedd., but seems to differ from it in several 
characters. Teysmann 13980, from Papepekong Bonthain, Celebes, bearing a 
name of Hallier’s, which does not seem to have been published, is very' similar 
to this, differing so far as the material affords means of comparison chiefly by 
somewhat smaller leaves. The. Butuan plants have the leaf-veins up to 17 in 
number and conspicuous stipules, but otherwise agree well with the type. 
4. Procris crenata sp. nov. 
Tota glabra, caule succulento, tumefacto : receptaculis pistilliferis 
pedunculatis ; perianthio admodum inaequaliter trilobo : foliis submem- 
branaceis, ellipticis vel anguste oblongis, basi obtusis, apice acuminatis, 
mafgine crenatis, venis utrinque 6 ad 8. 
Pistillate inflorescences solitary or in fascicles of 2 to 4, the peduncles 
when mature up to 6 mm long, when dried -0.5 to 2.5 mm in diameter, 
the receptacles about 4 mm in diameter, rather many-flowered, not 
surrounded by bracts but with bracts among the flowers; perianth some- 
what unequal, one lobe suborbicular,' about 0.3 mm long, the other two 
ovate, rather shorter; achene about 1 mm long, broadly elliptic to ovate 
in outline, tuberculate. 
Plants from less than 30 cm to over 45 cm high, the stem very succulent 
and swollen, when dried 3.5 to 7 mm wide : leaves alternate, the petioles 
3 to 5 mm long, the dried lamina submembranaceous, elliptic, elliptic- 
lanceolate, or narrowly oblong, 4.5 to 15 cm long, 8 to 45 mm wide, 
distinctly or only slightly inequilateral at the base, the margins crenate, 
- the crenations about as many as the Veins, the apex .contracted into an 
acumen, usually obtuse, about 7 to 10 mm long; lateral veins on each 
side of the midrib 6 to 8, conspicuous, other venation inconspicuous 
except for a few veins nearly parallel to the primary ones. 
Luzon, District of Bontoc, Bauco, at 1400 m elevation, Vanoverbergh 635 (three 
collections ) . The species seems very distinct, more nearly allied to P. pseudo- 
strigosa Elmer than to any of our others, but differing from it in almost every 
character not of generic importance except the venation. The receptacles have 
even a superficial resemblance to those of LeucosyJce, the perianth is remarkably 
short for the genus, resembling that of Pilea. 
SPECIES EXCLUSAE. . 
1. Procris ‘erecta Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 707. 
Conocephalus erectus F.-Villar Noviss. App. (1880) 203. 
Procris grandis Wedd. in Arch. Mus. Paris 9 (1856) 337. 
Conocephalus grandifolius Warb. in Perk. Fragm. FI. Philip. (1904) 167. 
Even from the description, it is sufficiently clear that Blanco’s species is a 
■Conocephalus, the local name cited makes it certain. Villar’s transfer, the name 
not being preoccupied, must stand unless the species be found synomymous with 
one of older date. The difficulty is to positively identify it; but the only notable 
obstacle I can find to the abipve disposition is that Blanco says that the leaves 
are villose on both surfaces. This is not true of herbarium specimens here, though 
some are pubescent on the under surface. But there are so many points of 
