343 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vout. I. Arr. 16 
mm. long, 2 mm. wide, oblong to oblanceolate, united into 
a very short tube, pubescent on the outer side; stamens 5, 
inserted upon the throat of the corolla and alternating with 
the segments; filaments glabrous, 1 mm. long, base flatten- 
ed; anthers basifixed, 3.5 mm. long, truncate at both ends, 
1 mm. wide, more or less spreading in anthesis; ovary 
bubose and glabrous: style columnar and also glabrous; 
stigma terminal, small and green; berries globose, about 8 
mm. in diameter, subtended by the undeveloped calyx seg- 
ments, of a shining vermillion red when mature. 
Type specimen 8719, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Proviuce 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. It inhabits the hot dry 
exposed limestone outcroppings and is not at all common. 
It falls in the section Leptostemonum and is distantly related 
to S. ferocissimum Lindl. 
GESNERACEAE 
Trichosporum crassifolium n. sp.—Epiphytic, upon trees; 
stems tough, grayish white, slender, terete, subpendulous, glab- 
rous. Leaves very thick, succulent, glabrous, subpendulous, 
entire margins involute, tips recurved, ovately oblong, op- 
posite, much scattered, the average blades 10 em. long and 
4 em. wide across the middle or a trifle below this, gradually 
tapering to an acute or acuminate point, base obtusely 
rounded, paler green beneath; midvein very evident, the lateral 
nerves barely visible, subparallel, very much ascending, from 
5 to 7 on each side; petiole glabrous, about 1 cm. in length. 
Flowers mostly solitary, but occasionally 3-clustered from a 
short common base, from the leaf axils or subterminal; 
pedicels slender, pulverulent, 12 mm. long, strict, subtended 
at the base by linearly acute 4 mm. long deciduous bracts; the 
5 calyx segments 8 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, | sub- 
glabrous, united at the base; corolla 3 em. long, nearly straight, 
sparsely sprinkled with very short hairs, only slightly curved, 
inflated at the base, averaging about 6 mm. in diameter, 
rather soft in texture, pink or more yellowish on the interior, 
nerved; the lobes subequal, averaging 3 mm. long, broadly 
rounded, the lower lip a trifle longer, the broad upper one 
bilobed; stamens 4, the 2 pairs subequal in length, equalling 
the corolla; filaments slender, flexuose, glabrous, inserted upon 
