692 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Arr. 40 
the base of the leaf, the middle one terminating in the sinus, 
prominent beneath, the secondary ones and eross bars faint; 
petiole glabrous or the young ones toward the base short hairy; 
subglabrous and subglaucous, somewhat thickened at both 
ends; stipules yellowish green pubescent on both sides, rather 
thin, roundly lunate, 2.5 mm. long. Inflorescence erect, 
terminal, quite heavy and more or less succulent, the race- 
mes 1 to 2 dm. long, rachis angular, short brown pubes- 
cent; pedicels ascending, 3.5 cm. long, usually with a pair 
of linear bracts near the middle, puberulent; the subtending 
bracts thin, caducous, sharply acuminate, pubescent on both 
sides; calyx also finely pubescent on the outside, 1 cm. long, 
5 mm. thick, its 5 segments subequal, the longer one 2 cm. 
in length, oblong, 5 mm. wide, terminated by a sharp 
abrupt point, reflexed in anthesis; petals free, white, when 
old turning yellow, the middle outside portion short pubes- 
cent; banner ovately elliptish, 1.5 cm. long, with a 4 mm. 
long claw; keel nearly as long and similar in shape; wings 
toward the constricted base subauriculate; stamens usually only 
3 fertile, the others reduced to staminodes; filaments pink- 
ish, also turning yellow, free, glabrous, the longer ones 2.5 
em. long, quite thick toward the base, apex finely pointed; 
anthers creamy white, versatile, purplish on the back, 1 cm. 
long, 4 mm. wide, obscurely bifid at. the widest basal portion; 
ovary linear, silky, grayish white, hairy, gradually tapering 
toward the stipe and into the style which bears a very thick 
green capitate stigma; pod flat, rigid, 2.5 cm. wide, 2 dm. 
long, pendulous, brown. 
Type specimen 12172, A. D. E. Elmer, Siombtoi, March, 
1910. 
: Common in shale or sandstone soil of shrubberies in all 
grass land gulches. Also on the north side of Sibuyan 
island. Its flowers are sweetly fragrant and the natives call 
t “‘Bica-bica”. Dedicated to Dr. Hans Hallier who also col- 
lected it on Romblon in 1904. 
The fulvous twigs and inflorence, coupled with the dif- 
ferently shaped calyx tube and petals serve to mark it dis- 
tinct from B. subglabra Merr. 
