Makch 27, 1915] Two Hondbkd Twenty Six Nbw Spkcies— II 2787 



similarly pubescent, conduplicate, shining and glabrous on 

 the outer or lower sides, strigose on the upper side. Flower- 

 ing spike terminal, 4 dm long, erect yet usually curved, 

 flower bearing from below the middle, green stalks turning 

 dull brown upon drying, fulvus tomentose toward the young 

 or bud bearing tips, ultimately glabrate, when in full an- 

 thesis 6 cm thick; flowers odorless, promiscuously scattered, 

 the lower ones subtended by a lanceolate to setaceously 

 pointed bract, in pairs, the common pedicel in the bud 

 state 4 mm long, the individual pedicel 8 mm long, both 

 elongating to twice their length in full anthesis, pulverulent, 

 at the base somewhat compressed; buds globose, 4 mm in 

 diameter; perianth segments 4, valvate and in the bud state 

 well overarching the anther head, persistent and subreflexed 

 after bloom, united at the base, leathery, glabrate or pul- 

 verulent on both sides, oblong, 5 mm long by 3 mm wide, 

 obtusely rounded at the apex, occasionally unequal in width; 

 style or stamineal tube 6 mm long, terete, glabrous, fleshy, 

 1 mm thick; stamens about 8, conglomerated into a flat- 

 tened mass nearly 3 mm across; anthers attached along the 

 inner side, their cells well separated, membranous, light 

 yellow, opening along the outer free edge, both the upper 

 and lower ends notched or emarginate. Capsules not seen. 



Type specimen number 12705, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ember, 1912. 



Found among the moss laden cold and windy forested 

 ridge at 5750 feet altitude along the newly cut trail from 

 lake Danao to the summit of mount Urdaneta or Masay 

 as the natives call it. The Manobos named this as well as 

 all other pitcher plants "Lapsay." 



As to our Philippine species it is quite closely related 

 to Nepenthes merrillii MacF. from Surigao province. In the 

 eight specimens distributed, four were taken from a sterile 

 plant and had considerable shorter leaves than those as here 

 described and which may not belong to this species. In the 

 summit region of Urdaneta or above 5000 feet there are 

 three or more distinct terrestrial species, while on Cawila- 

 nan and Duros peaks at a lower elevation there is the high 

 epiphytic species Nepenthes truncata MacF, 



