DzckMBzER 27, 1908] GESNERACEÆ FROM THE CUERNOS Mrs. 565 
lateral pair very small; the terminal one broad and obtuse 
or acute, with an orange red blotch between its base and 
the top of the lateral membranous folds; stamens 2, equal- 
+ ling the throat; filaments flattened, inserted on the upper side 
of the tube below the middle, usually curved; anthers 
divaricate, opening along the edge, 0.75 mm. high, 1.25 
mm. wide; style 6 mm. long, glabrous, terete, curved op- 
positely to the filaments; stigma capitate, finely woolly; 
ovary oblongish conical, glabrous; fruits 5 mm. long, elong- 
ated ellipsoid, 2.5 mm. in diameter, glabrous; seeds very 
numerour, brown, ellipsoid or at the base subtruncate and 
ending in a very short stipitate base, 0.25 mm. long, im- 
bedded along the centrally woolly placente. 
Type specimen 9929, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
On seepage cliffs and especially along the spray of a 
waterfall of the Bonyao river at 3000 feet. It forms dense 
mats, the flowers are rather conspicuous for the size of the 
the plants, the foliage has a pretty rich steel blue or dull 
purplish underside while the upper surface presents a velvety 
green appearance when fresh and in the wet state. 
TRICHOSPORUM Don. 
Trichosporum crassifolium Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. 1; 343, 
1908, 
Epiphyte upon tree trunks of ravines at 2750 feet. Flow- 
ers odorless, in pairs or in small clusters from the fallen leaf 
axils or from the axils of the leaves, chiefly from the drooping 
branches; pedicels and bracts green, rather soft and pliable; 
corolla also soft in texture, usually somewhat recurved and 
flattened toward the apex which is dark purple red, the basal 
portion inflated and light rather shiny green; filaments 
whitish; anthers dark brown; pistil greenish; stigma more 
whitish than the filaments; the old persistent carpels 1.5 dm. long. 
Specimen 10262, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 1908, 
A well characterized species in the field as well as in 
the herbarium. In our locality it grows upon tree trunks 
of ravines at 2750 feet. 
