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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 119 



at the apex, glandularly punctate or purplish spotted. 

 Heads erect, with watery white bracts, not numerously 

 flowered; subtending bracteoles hyaline, 12 mm. long, 

 irregularly truncate at the apex; calyx 2 cm. long, gla- 

 brous, minutely punctate, subinflated, terminated by 2 

 to 3 blunt teeth; corolla tube 3.5 cm. long, punctate and 

 glabrous, terminated by lateral hyaline oblong lobes 

 which are 1.5 cm. long by 4 mm. wide; lip 1.5 to 2 

 cm. long, broadly lanceolate to oblong, striate and sim- 

 ilarly punctate, folded upon the ventral side, thin or 

 subhyaline; filament ribbon like, 8 mm. long above the 

 corolla lobes, glabrous and punctate; anther 12 mm. long, 

 2 mm. wide, linear, widest across the apex; the brown 

 connective granular, terminated apparently by a 3 linearly 

 lobed crest; pedicel of the glabrous ovary 6hort. Fruits 

 sessile, globosely ellipsoid, less than 1.5 cm. in length, 

 yellowish strigose, apex very bluntly pointed, longitudi- 

 nally ridged and soft muricate all over, greenish on the 

 exposed sides; young seeds irregularly angular, finally 



rather smooth. 



Type specimen number 16455, A. D- E. Elmer, Irosin 



(Mt. Bulusan). Province of Sorsogon, Luzon, June, 1916. 

 Discovered in wet stony ground of herbaceous thickets 



in a densely shaded gully between forested ridges at 



1750 feet altitude. 



This species grew in the same ground mixed with 



Hormiedtia irosinensis Elm. number 16832. Its flowers and 



fruits are very similar, yet its taller habit and much 



longer leaves at once distinguished it in the field. 



Hornstedtia purpurea Elm. 



n. sp. 



Tussocks. Stems 1.5 to 2.5 cm. thick, terete, varying 

 in length from 1 to nearly 3 m., ascending, nearly straight 

 clear to the distal ends, pale green except the red more 

 or less enlarged base. Rootstock 1.25 cm. thick, connecting 

 one stem base with the other, red bracteate when young, 

 yellowish when old, with numerous wiry and dirty yel- 

 low roots. Blades ascending, strongly folded upon the 

 upper dull green surface, rigidly coriaceous, the edges 

 smooth except toward the apex where they are only 

 sparsely ciliate, sides wavy, in alternating rows 7.5 cm. 

 apart, in the dry state greenish, gray above and dirty 

 castaneus beneath, widely separated and much reduced 

 toward the base, glabrous, the whole of the under sur- 

 face atropurpureus or the young ones lighter purple, 

 oblong, base obtuse, apex quite abruptly acute, the average 

 ones 4.5 dm. long by 9 cm. wide caross the middle, appearing 



