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Leaflets of PmupprNE Botant 



[Vol. VIII, Art 111 



brous except the strigulose margins, oblong or the inner 

 ones widest across the top, 3 cm long by one third as 

 wide, conspicuously nerved and reticulated, the apex quite 

 often irregularly subtruneate: bracteole utricular and enclos- 

 ing 2 flowers of unequal, developement, 1.5 cm long, 1 

 cm wide, thin, yellowish, puberulent on the exterior, the 

 upper one third bifid or split, broadly oblong when spread 

 out; calyx nearly 2 cm long, red especially toward the 

 top, glabrous, thickest across the 8 toothed top, the slen- 

 der teeth usually ciliate; corolla 3 cm long, slenderly tu- 

 bular, glabrous, rigid, light yellow except the whitish basal 

 portion; the 3 outer segments spreading, unequal, triangu- 

 larly ovate to oblong, the longer one 7.5 mm in length, 

 all glabrous; lip suberect and curved, fleshy, yellow, slightly 

 bifid at the apex, strongly curved and twisted in the dry 

 state m t least, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 4 mm wide, margins 

 inwarJly curved; filament short and broad; anther 4 mm 

 long, dorsally recurved, truncate and obscurely emarginate at 

 the apex, the 1 i i» h t yellow cells longitudinally dehiscent; 

 style slender; stigma glabrous and suboipitate; ovary gla- 

 broiH, triangularly elongated. Fruit hard and shinning 

 dark green, subtended by persistent rather flexible broadly 

 obtu3e reddish green bracts, 2 cm long by 1.5 cm wide 

 above the middle, obovoid and irregularly subcom press- ed, 

 short stipitate, apex usually excavated about the persii-tent 

 calyx, obscurely 3-celled; seeds several in each cell, irreg- 

 ularly round, 3 mm across, glabrous, dull brown, deeply 

 hollowed at th* point of attachment. 



Type specimen numbers 10642 and 10534, A. D. E. Elmer, 

 Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 



Here and there met in the forests. The former num- 

 ber was collected at 7000 feet altitude on the north side 

 of the Sibulan river on mount Caielan and was called 

 "Pusadok" by the Bagobos. The latter number at 4250 

 feet altitude south of the Sibulan river and was named "Lurasi- 

 sing" by the same natives. 



Very distinct from the other two species of this char* 

 cteristic alpine genus. 



