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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII. Art. 116 



the uppermost ones not shorter than the normal blades but 

 narrower, oblongish or oblanceolately elongated, 6 to 9 cm 

 wide above the middle, the longer ones 7 dm in length, 

 margins glabrous but minutely crinkled; midrib pronounced 

 beneath, deeply channelled above, glabrate, curing lighter 

 straw brown beneath; petiole similar, 2 to 3 cm long; 

 sheaths striate, puberulent, the thin edges purple especially 

 along the inner side; ligule oblong, 1 cm long, short dirty 

 pubescent, tips obtusely rounded, somewhat decor rent down 

 the ligule. Inflorescence lateral, 2 dm above the base of 

 the stems, ascendingly curved, spicate or few branched, 10 

 to 15 cm long, rigid; peduncle short pubescent, subtended 

 by the dry sheath which is similarly pubescent; branches 

 alternate, also subtended by large sheath-like bracts; flower- 

 ing spike dense, terete, 2 cm thick, the flowers gradually 

 developing from the base toward the apex; rachis after 

 anthesis almost 1 cm thick, yellowish pubescent, with nu- 

 merous persistent short and similarly pubescent flowering or 

 fruiting stalks; bracts dirty brown, watery and caducous, 

 of diverse sizes, closely set and imbricate, the longer ones 

 1.25 cm in length and setaceously acuminate, all more or 

 less lanose; calyx yellowish white, sparsely pubescent, 1 

 cm long, divided nearly to the middle into 3 acute lobes, 

 membranous; corolla 1.5 cm long, more than one half tu- 

 bular, glabrous, deep purple; the 2 lateral lobes reflexed, 

 oblong, with entire margins; the upper lobe broadly obovate 

 and margins irregularly cut or lacerated, white, with a yel- 

 lowish blotch in the center toward the base and with light 

 purple lateral streaks; filament few mm long, thick, gla- 

 brous; anther 3.5 mm long, bearing a short truncate crest 

 at the top; style very filiform, glabrous; stigma small, disk- 

 like, minutely ciliate around the edges. Fruits subgloboee, 

 1 cm long, glabrous, obscurely lobed toward the persistent 

 calyx stub, with several irregular nearly black seeds packed 

 between the hyaline partitions. 



Type specimen number 12209, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes 

 (Mt. Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 



Discovered in red humus covered clay of a steep wood- 

 ed incline along a streamlet at 1000 feet altitude. 



Leaves entirely too large to be classed with Plagioxia- 



