March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2785 



beneath, much less so above; lateral nerves 5 to 8 on each- 

 side, ascending, strongly curved toward their ends, very 

 obscure though in the dry leaves more evident from the 

 upper surface, reticulations obsolete; petiole 5 mm long, 

 thick, dark or blackish brown when dry, flat along the 

 upper side. Inflorescence not collected. Infrutescence copious- 

 ly clustered along the branchlets below the leaves; tubercles 

 or common stems 5 to 8 mm long, ascending, thick, terete, 

 glabrous, covered with numerous imbricating scales transversely 

 arranged, unbranched, alternatingly scattered; pedicels strict, 

 3 to 5 mm long, pale green, terete, also glabrous, several- 

 ly and umbellately scattered from the distal ends of the 

 tubercles, each subtended by a broad persistent bract; fruits 

 globose or nearly so, 2.5 mm in diameter, glabrous, densely 

 verrucose with reddish brown glands, terminated by the sub- 

 persistent slender style, at the base subtended by the 4 

 calyx teeth or segments. 



Type specimen number 14148, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 

 ober, 1912. 



Inhabiting lofty trees on a windy north ridge' at 4500 

 feet altitude of Cawilanan peak. "Nagas" in Manobo. 



Leaves the size and shape of Rapanea philippinensis DC. 

 but our fruits are densely glandular. 



NEPENTHACEAE 



Nepenthes surigaoensis Elm. n. sp. 



A creeping and sprawling pitcher plant; stem trailing 

 among jungles or subscandent along much slanting stems of 

 trees up to 3 m high, seldom rebranched, 1.25 thick, the 

 old or leafless portion brown and angular, the upper or 

 leaf bearing portion green and also quadangular by the decur- 

 rent leaf bases, bendable, very strong and tough. Leaf bract 

 1 dm long, strongly imbricate and linear, tipped with an 

 appendage; leaves alternatingly scattered, rather close toward 

 the flower bearing top, the basal ones 7 to 14 cm apart, 

 horizontally spreading, quite rigid and coriaceous, nearly flat 

 but gradually recurved toward the acute to obtuse apex, 



