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ROBINSON. 
Hearns, For. Bur. 970 Barnes. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. 
Clemens 13: District of Davao, Todaya, Elmer 11958. 
Local name (Apo) : sacati. 
India, Malaya, Australia. 
3. Gonostegia integrifolia Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 4 (1869) 303. 
Pouzolzia integrifolia Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 3 (1851) 134. 
Memorialis integrifolia Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 16 1 (1869) 235 s . 
Luzon, District of Bontoc, Vanoveriergh 533 : Province of Benguet, Twin 
Peaks, Elmer 6388. 
The identification is not positive, no pistillate flowers or fruits being present, 
and there are some points of disagreement. The statement “foliis sessilibus 
amplexiealibusque insignis” holds true: the lowest leaves are ovate and shorter 
than several of the succeeding pairs, these attaining a maximum length of 5 cm, 
some or all subtending flowers, they then gradually decrease in width but less 
definitely in length, those near the apex being often as long as the lowest though 
shorter than the longest. The nerves give off a fairly conspicuous vein at their 
very base, the leaf therefore appearing 5-nerved. In some leaves there are less 
conspicuous outer nerves. The anthers number 4 or very rarely 5. 
India. 
4. Gonostegia reptans sp. nov. 
Reptans, caespitosa, caulibus debilibus: glomerulis axillaribus; flor- 
ibus staminiferis tetrameris ; perianthio fructifero 8-costato, . stigmate 
deciduo : foliis subsessilibus, oppositis, membranaceis, ovatis vel orbicu- 
lari-ovatis, apice obscure acuminatis, apicalibus baud diminutis. 
Glomerules axillary, few-flowered : staminate perianth very deeply 4- 
parted, the segments oblong, abruptly or somewhat ‘abruptly indexed near 
the apex with a transverse crest of hairs along the flexure, when outspread 
about 2 mm long; filaments 2 mm long, anthers 1 mm long: pistillate 
perianth about 1 mm long, the deciduous pilose stigma about 1.5 mm 
long; fruiting perianth about 1.5 mm long, with 8 or rarely more nearly 
acute ridges, pilose toward the apex; achene jet-black or the lower part or 
all white, ovate in outline, apiculate, about 1.3 mm long. 
Plants weak, prostrate, creeping, the stems much-branched, pilose: 
leaves subsessile, the membranaceous lamina ovate, orbicular-ovate, or 
somewhat narrower, 6 to 14 mm long, 3 to 8 mm wide, or even smaller, 
the apical as large as the lower, the base rounded or slightly emarginate, 
entire, the apex obscurely or somewhat obscurely forming an obtuse or 
subacute acumen of about one-third the length of the leaf, trinerved, the 
nerves extending the length of the leaf or often becoming faint toward 
the apex but not then at the lateral margins, the nerves connected with 
the costa by several delicate transverse nervules but with no additional 
primary veins, both surfaces pilose when young, when older sparingly so; 
stipules broadly ovate, about 0.5 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Elmer 5828 (type) ; Sablan, Elmer 6H0. 
A very distinct species, resembling in habit and in the fruiting perianth some of 
the prostrate forms of Pouzolzia zeylanica, but quite distinct from them in 
venation and in the staminate flowers. 
