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the corolla throat at about the middle or below this; anthers 
ellipsoid, 2 mm. long, bilobed at the base, the pairs subunited, 
1.25 mm. wide; style glabrous, about 5 mm. long, terminated 
hy a fleshy dise like stigma; ovary stipitate, subcompressed; 
fruit 15 em. long or longer, pendulous, the valves persistent, 
glabrous, brown on the exterior, yellowish on the inner surface; 
seeds very numerous, linear, brown, 1 mm. long, each end 
with a 3 mm. long silvery white coma. 
Type specimen 9211, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, May, 1907. Festooning moss covered tree trunks 
inclining over the Botocan River in deep ravines at 750 
meters. Some of the pendulous stems are five meters long. It 
has also been collected in Mindanao and northern Luzon. 
Trichosporum nervosum n. sp,— Numerously branched 
climbing shrubs, branchlets smooth, yellowish gray, subpen- 
dulous. Leaves opposite, subdeflexed, ovate to lanceolate, 
variable in size, 6 cm. long, 2 em. wide, smaller when dry, 
slightly paler green beneath, apex acuminate, base obtuse 
or rounded, thick and smooth when fresh, becoming strong- 
ly nervose beneath when dry; midvein prominent beneath, 
the 4 to 6 lateral ones subparallel; petiole 5 mm. long, 
thick, corky; flowers yellowish red, chiefly 3 to 5-clustered 
at the ends of the twigs or from the upper leaf axils; ped- 
icels slender, glabrous, 6 mm. long; calyx about 4 mm. 
long, persistent, linearly acuminate, united at the base; cor- 
olla 3.5 em. long, curved, near the base 4 mm. thick, some- 
what inflated above the middle, throat oblique; its segments 
5, oblong, obtusely rounded, about 5 mm. long, the upper 
smaller; stamens 5, the subglabrous filaments attached to 
the middle of the corolla tube, unequal in length; anthers 
barely protruding, versatile, oblong, 2 mm. long, one half 
as wide; ovary glabrous, linear, the slender stipe arising 
from a 1.5 mm. thick caruncle; style pubescent, terminated 
by a comparatively large discoid stigma; fruits 7 cm. long, 
linear, with a very slender base, apex sharply pointed. 
Type specimen 8607, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province of 
Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. Usually found on lime- 
stone outcroppings of the pine region. Type material secured 
one mile west cf Baguio. The Igorrotes call it Chila. The 
