DicemBerR 27, 1908] GESNERACEH FROM THE CozRNos Mrs. 567 
Trichosporam truncatum Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent and slenderly branched; stems and branches 
smooth, green, glabrous. Leaves rigid, the tips only slightly 
recurved, opposite, easily detached, quite variable in size, 
ovate to oblongish, the apex short obtuse, base rounded or 
shallowly cordate, the larger ones 8 cm. long by 4 cm. wide, 
entire margins edge like, deeper green above; midnerve very 
prominent beneath, caniculate on the upper side, the lateral 
ascending pairs very obscure; petiole 4 to 7 mm. long, glabrous, 
thick, strongly wrinkled in the dry state, channelled along the 
upper side. Flowers severally clustered, terminal or subterminal 
and from the uppermost leaf axils; pedicels 5 to 8 mm. 
long, thick, terete, usually becoming glabrous and recurved, 
persistent, at the base subtended by vestiges of ciliated 
braeteoles, much thickened at the distal end; calyx coria- 
ceous, shining deep purple red toward the apex, 3 cm. 
long, nearly 1 cm. thick, tubular or occasionally subcam- 
panulate toward the top, truncate and easily becoming 
detached at the base, glabrous, the 5 broad segments round- 
ed and 5 mm. in length; corolla lighter red or purple, 5 
em. long, slightly curved, also glabrous, 1 cm. thick toward 
the throat; its segments rotately spreading, about 7 mm. 
long, the uppermost bilobed and finely fringed with glan- 
dular hairs, all strongly streaked on the inner side toward 
the base; filaments glabrous, in 2 pairs, attached to the 
inside of the corolla tube above the middle, strongly curved 
upwards; anthers protruded, oblong, 3 mm. long, dorsally 
attached, bifid at the base, truncate at the apex; pistil as 
long as the corolla, only slightly curved; ovary linear, upon 
a slender flattened stalk, glabrous, gradually tapering into 
the 7 mm. long glandular pubescent style; stigma large, 
disk like, glandular hairy on the outer surface, hairless on 
the stigmatic side; fruits not seen. i 
Type specimen 9426, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos — — 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 1908. 
In dense shrubberies of steep northern slopes of deep 
ravines at 2750 feet. 
It approaches T. elementis Merr. which has short broadly 
ovate leaves and calyx more rounded and inflated. 
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