562 LzaruETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY | (Vorn: II, Art. 27 
upper portion, glabrous; the 4 lobes 8 mm. long, very broad 
and rounded, rotately spreading and 2 to 3 cm. across, bare. 
ly exceeding the tips of the straight calyx segments, punc- 
tate glandular on the upper surface; stamens 4, inserted 
upon the middle of the corolla tube, 2 fertile and 2 sterile; 
filaments purplish, of the fertile ones glabrous, very thick, 
1 em. long including the double loop, barely exceeding the 
throat; the sterile ones straight or curved, much thinner and 
only 2 mm. long, subclavate; anthers 4 mm. long, 2 mm. 
thick, dorsifixed; pistil straight, 2 cm. long, glabrous; evary 
surrounded at the base by a shallow cupular rim, oblong; 
: style purple, nearly 2 mm. thick, 1 cm. long; stigma an 
. *  obseurely bilobed greenish flattened disk, nearly 4 mm. in 
3 diameter; fruits shining pale purple, fusiform from the base, 
2 to 3 em. long or longer, terminated by the persistent 
ww. style, terete; seeds numerous, imbedded in the fleshy pulp, 
z brown, ellipsoid with short fusiform points, 0.8 to 0.5 mm. 
long. 
Type specimen 9542, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 
1908. ; 
This most characteristic species is very rare, and inhabits 
the wet scale mossy region of the summit at 6000 feet elevation. 
Its branches are well interlaced with other rigid shrubs. The 
large coriaceous, hairy leaves and the showy pendulous 
flowers presents a very marked contrast tothe usually small, rigid 
and glabrous foliage associated with small inconspicuous flowers 
of most all the other plants in this region. Called ‘by one of 
. the native hunters "Handulumog." Named after our little 
|. gon Anton. 
DiCHROTRICHUM Reinw. 
Dichrotrichum chorisepalum VERE in DOC. Monog. 
Phan. 5; 53, 1883. 
À climber, stems green, pliable, branched and rather lightly 
attached to its support, not twining, branched and interlaced at 
the top. Leaves coriaceous, descending, dark green above, 
. paler beneath. The green peduncles are at right angles to 
. the stem; flowers odorless, spreading, recurved, deep purple 
