DzckMBzR 27, 1908] GESNERACEE FROM THE CUERNOS MTs. 563 
throughout, subtended by foliaceous bracts, pedicels and 
calyx very dark or dull brown, only the segments of the latter 
green. | 
Specimen 10074, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 1908. 
Upon smalltree trunks of the humid woods from 2250 to 3500 
feet. The pretty flowers present a pleasing contrast to the 
dark green foliage. 
EPITHEMA Rim. 
Epithema benthami Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan. 5; 180, 
1883. 
Stems green, succulent. Leaves submembranous, exceedingly 
variable in size, deep green above, much paler beneath, flat. 
Peduncle erect, bearing a terminal green circinately disposed or 
subsecund cluster of flowers; bracts and calyx green; flowers 
deciduous, azure blue especially toward the apex; stamens 
yellowish white; pistil greenish. 
Specimen 9698, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
This pretty herb adorns moss covered rocks and boul- 
ders lying in gulches of damp well shaded hemp fields 
along the Bonyao river at 2500 feet. The plants vary 
greatly in size. ‘‘Hansau.’’ 
ISANTH ERA Nees. 
Isanthera discolor Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Petersb. 19: 
538, 1874, 
Rather erect, usually several stems from the same root cluster, 
stems herbaceous or suffrutescent especially toward the base, cov- 
ered with a thin yellowish brown bark or epidermis. Leaves 
limp, much paler beneath; corolla delicate, white, subpen- 
dulous, deciduous; berries subpersistent, soft, vnde; watery; e 
seeds numerous, minute, brown. a 
Specimen 10436, A. D. E. Elmer, Dunque. Cuernos $3 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 1908. 
A common plant of the ''Abaca" fields especially. on. 
the slopes of very steep and damp ravines from 1500 to. 
