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LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I.. Art’ 16 
der tube pubescent, its 4 oblong 1.75 mm. long segments 
pubescent on the dorsal side; anthers subsessile, upon the 
throat of the corolla and alternating with its segments, 1.5 
mm. long, broadly linear, finely bidentate at the base; styles 
slender, glabrous, exceeding the corolla by 5 mm.,, the ter- 
minal thickened portion recurved and terminated by a sub- 
clavate stigma; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 8262, A. D. E. Elmer, Los Baños, Prov- 
ince of Laguna, Luzon, Ern T 
Ophiorrhiza involucrata n. miis düoemlast herbs 3 to 5 
dm. high; perennial stems and branches smooth, glabrous 
or the vounger portions with reddish brown hairs, curved, 
twisted and rather crookedly rebranched. Leaves soft, thin, 
dark green above, paler beneath, obliquely oblong, exceed- 
ingly unequal in size, the smaller ones ovate, all acute, the 
base of the larger ones obliquely subcuneate or subtruncate, 
the larger blade 8 em. long by one half as wide across 
middle, the large leaf opposed by & small one, glabrous, 
entire; the petiole of the large leaves slender, subglabrous, 
yellowish when dry, 2 to 5 em. in length; the small leaves 
only 5 mm. long; nerves of the larger blades 9 to 13 on 
a side, equally prominent on both sides, dirty yellowish 
brown especially beneath, ascendingly curved, tips anastomos- 
ing, retieulations very prominent or almost ridged on the 
upper surface; stipules subpersistent, 5 to 8 mm. long, lacin- 
iate. Inflorescence terminal or from the upper” leaf axils, 
in à more or less congested cyme 2 cm. across; peduncle 
strict, slender, subglabrous, 2 to 3 em. in length; the short 
branches of the cyme subtended by thin nerved foliaceous 
bracts which in the fresh state are strongly incurved over 
the flowers and are of a characteristic sulphur green on the 
under side; pedicels 3 mm. long at most, more or less 
angularly winged, glabrous; the 2 winged capsule 8 mm. wide, 
3 mm. high, glabrous, apex shallowly eurved; the sides di- 
varicately ascending, truncately rounded at the ends, 2 mm. 
wide, dehiseing along the entire length of the apical side; 
seeds very numerous, smooth, brown, bocas not more 
than 0.5 mm. thick. oda j 
