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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 116 



florescence arising from the rootstock; peduncle 1.25 cm 

 thick, curved, 5 to 8 cm long, reddish bracteate; bracts im- 

 bricate, submembranous, oblong, 3 to 5 cm long, glabrate 

 or ciliate along the margins, obtusely rounded at the apex 

 or notched; heads erect, ovoid, ellipsoid or obovoid, as 

 long or longer than the stalks, 4 cm thick; its bracts nu- 

 merous and dense, greenish except the reddish exposed 

 portions, obovately elongated, 4 cm long, when young pu- 

 bescent especially toward the base, ultimately glabrate, 1.5 

 cm wide across the truncate apex, the thin marginal sides 

 usually folded upon the inner side, reddish and with deeper 

 red spots toward the apex; flowers 1 or more from the 

 axils of the large bracts; outer bracteole 4 cm long, sac- 

 cate, 1 cm thick across the middle or widest portion, sub- 

 hyaline, glabrous, longitudinally veined, whitish, purplish 

 spotted toward the obtuse apex, the sides of the basal three 

 fourths much overlapping; the inner bracteole 1 cm shorter 

 and relatively narrower, otherwise similar; calyx tube 5 cm 

 long, glabrous and with purple streaks; calyx at first broadly 

 saccate, segments 2 cm long, hyaline, purplish veined and 

 spotted, lanceolate and acuminately pointed, the upper one 

 longer and more oblong in shape; lip obovately oblong, 

 densely mottled with purple, subentire or bilobed; fertile 

 filament short, membranous and purple spotted as is also 

 the connective which is extended into a 1.5 cm long recurved 

 beak, densely red mottled; anther cells yellow, longitudinally 

 dehiscent, 1.5 cm long, parallel, glabrous; style very filiform, 

 reddish streaked, extending through the beak; stigma small, 

 funnel shaped, beset with hairs around the rim. 



Type specimen number 10421, A. D. E. Elmer, Duma- 

 guete (Cuernos Mts.), Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, 

 June, 1908. 



Discovered in wet earth along a streamlet of a ravine 

 at 3500 feet altitude. Here is also referred my number 

 11768 from Davao, Mindanao, although I failed to find any 

 flowers in the dried cones. The leaf characters of the Min- 

 danao plant are exactly the same as in this Negros plant. 



