1488 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 75 
the young portion faintly scurfy of an umber color. Leaves alter- 
natingly crowded toward the ends of the branchlets, thickly co- 
riaceous, broadly lance shaped or pointedly fusiform, acuminate 
at apex, attenuate toward the base, the blade 1 dm. long by 3 
em. wide across the middle, the entire margins crinkled above 
the middle, blackish gray on the upper side, greenish gray beneath, 
glabrous; midvein stout, blackish brown beneath, also glabrous; 
primary lateral nerves 9 to 12 pairs, oblique, occasionally second- 
ary ones interspersed, relatively very obscure, equally visible 
from the upper side, reticulations fine and quite evident; petiole 
1.5 em. long, at first pulverulent, ultimately glabrous. Flowers 
clustered in the leaf axils, broad; pedicels spreading, 5 mm. 
long, brown scurfy, subtended at the base by vestiges of brac- 
teoles; calyx 5, imbricate, scurfy hairy, more or less united to- 
ward the base, ovately rotund, 3 mm. long, 4 mm. broad across 
the base; corolla segments 4 mm. high, united toward the base, 
-oblong, rounded at the apex, thinner in texture, minute appen- 
dages in the sinus of the lobes, glabrous; stamens 5, opposite 
the petals and inserted on them below the middle; filaments 2.5 
mm. long; anther as long, rotund or broadly elliptic, auricu- 
lately lobed at the base, dorsifixed from between the sinus, the 
sides widely opened in anthesis; ovary flattened, with tufts of 
hairs about the base; style columnar, 3 mm. long, faintly hairy, 
erect. 
Type specimen 7904, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban (Mt. Banahao), 
Tayabas Province, Luzon, May, 1907. 
Instead of being S. coriaceum Merr. under which name it 
was sent out, it is more nearly related to S. stenophylla Merr. 
ACANTHACEAE. 
Staurogyne ophiorrhizoides Elm. n. sp. 
Sueculent herb; stems terete, pale green, solitary or few 
from the same root cluster, reclining toward the base, sparingly 
branched, yellowish puberulent. Leaves mainly horizontal, flat, 
submembranous, very deep dull green above, grayish green be- 
neath, glabrous except the subolivaceus puberulent veins, en- 
tire, opposite, ovately oblong, obtuse at apex, acute to obtuse 
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