564 . LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY < [Vois TL-ASt. 4 
3000 feet. The Filipinos call it ‘‘Handulumog’”’, and they 
occasionally boil the leaves and apply them to wounds. 
RHYNCHOGLOSSUM Blm. 
Rhynchoglossum obliquum Bim. Bijd, 641, 1825. 
Flaccid and succulent herbs, varying much in height; 
stems soft, watery, green, smooth and easily breaking. 
Leaves rather thin, paler green beneath, flaccid, the prom- 
inent nerves beneath succulent and green. Flowers divaricate, 
pale blue; rachis, pedicels and bracts green. 
Specimen 9664, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 
1908. 
This species grows in sandy earth of shady ravines along 
the Banyao river at 2500 feet, or in talus beds near cliffs. 
**Handulumog’’. 
Rhynchoglossum spumosum Elm. n. sp. 
Flaccid herbs, no more than 10 cm. high; watery stems 
smooth, green, recliningly spreading or decumbent, sparsely 
branched. Leaves descending or horizontally spreading. wrink- 
led, deep velvety green above, flaccid, characteristically dull 
indigo blue beneath, strongly nerved on both sides, alter- 
nate, diverse in size, subfalcate, oblique and  inequilateral, 
the larger blades 5 em. long and one half as wide across the 
middle, ovate to oblong, entire, flat, abruptly acute at the 
apex, subtruneate at the base; petiole glabrous, 1 cm. long; 
nerves 9 to 11 pairs, oblique, more conspicuous and pulver- 
lent beneath.  Inflorescence suberect, terminating the stems 
and branches, green and glabrous except the corolla, bear- 
ing 2 to 5 pedicellate flowers; pedicels slender, 5 mm. long, 
divaricate, subtended by laciniate 8 mm. long bracts; calyx 
greenish, somewhat inflated and angular, 7 mm. long, glab- 
rous, divided into 5 acuminate segments; corolla 10 mm. long, 
delicate, descending, caducous, odorless, whitish toward the base, 
azure blue toward the apex, tubular, bilipped; the upper lip very 
short, reflexed, bidentate, the teeth again note shed; the low- 
er lip very broad, canr mrig, obscurely 3-lobed, the 
