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Note* Axn Descriptions op ZrNnrnERACBAE 



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veined; calyx 1.75 cm long, tubular and subcompressed to- 

 ward the base, puberulent; the 3 lobes oblong, 7.5 mm long, 

 longitudinally nerved, pubescent on the outside, the apical 

 margins incurved and reddish tinged; corolla as long as the 

 calyx if not longer, dull or deep red, the tubular portion 

 adnate to the calyx tube; lip erect, rigid, glabrous, broadly 

 rounded or lobulate toward the apex, the longitudinal veins 

 of a deeper red, eventually folded; filament short, broad; 

 anther 5 mm long, curved; cells well separated, yellow, pu- 

 bescent, ventrally and longitudinally dehiscent, terminated by 

 a short truncate crest; the 2 staminodes slenderly pointed; 

 style slender, strigose, terminating with a compressed broadly 

 emarginate stigma. Fruit upon 1 cm long stalks, ascendingly 

 crowded and maturing from the base toward the apex, there- 

 by giving the infrutescence an ovoid or ovoidly elongated shape, 

 2 cm long excluding the persistent portion of the flower, 1.25 

 cm thick below the middle, light red, somewhat irregular in 

 shape, hairy in the younger state, strongly carinate when 

 <iv\\ 3-celled, with few irregular blackish seeds in each cell. 

 Type specimen numbers 10516 and 10544, A. D. E. Elmer, 

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

 Both numbers were collected in damp fertile ground of deep 

 <»r dense forests in the vicinity of the Mainit creek and Si- 

 bulan river junction at about 4250 feet altitude. The later 

 number the Bagobos called "Bosadak". 



A very distinct species and apparently the same as those 

 collected near Butuan, Mindanao by L. Escritor after whom 

 it is here named. 



Plagiostachys pdleyi Elm. n. sp. 



Dense tufts; roots horizontal, branched; stem terete, 

 1.25 cm thick or thicker at the swollen base, quite thin 

 toward the much reclining top, green, varying from 1 to 

 over 2 m long, the lower portion leafless. Leaves alternate, 

 thinly coriaceous, conduplicnte and erect from the base, the 

 tops gracefully recurved, the abruptly recurved tips seta- 

 ceously acuminate to a 3 cm long caudate point, attenuate 

 toward the base, glabrous, when dry greenish gray above, 

 fumosus beneath, nlternate, the basal ones short and broad, 



