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APRIL 20, 1912] Two SconE or New PLANTS 1495 
few from the same root, terete, 2 cm. thick, bendable; wood soft, 
with a large whitish pith, the inner portion reddish, the outer 
yellowish and covered with a thin red sapwood; bark dull brown, 
smooth, relatively thick; branches numerously rebranched, 
green, quite rigid, well interlaced, curved and drooping but with 
ascendingly curved tips, glabrous. Leaves also ascending, co- 
riaceous, folded upon the upper side, paler green beneath, narrowly 
oblong or oblongish oblanceolate, smooth and glabrous, the 
blades varying from 1 to 2 dm. long including the 2 em. long de- 
current petiole base, entire, attenuate toward the base, acutely 
obtuse at apex, shallowly concave beneath, alternating and more 
or less crowded toward the ends of the shining green twigs, 3 cm. 
wide; midrib ridged along the nether side, extended into a tough 
tendril-like appendage which at the end is thickened and circi- 
nately recurved or pitcher bearing; when with a pitcher usually 
longer, stouter and doubly looped at about the middle; pitcher 
1 dm. long, averaging 3 cm. thick, dull green and blotched with 
dark red, glaucusly purple on the inside toward the top, the 
oblique opening bordered by a finely striate much recurved thick- 
ened rim; the basal portion gradually enlarged and strongly 
eurved, thick and striate; dry lid 2 em. across, suborbicular or 
ovately so, blistery on its inner side, rather membranous. In- 
florescence terminal, solitary, racemosely spicate, 3 or more dm. 
long, erect; rachis terete, when young umber brown puberulent, 
wearing glabrous, pale green; pedicels similar in vestiture, divar- 
icate, promiscuously scattered along the rachis from below the 
middle, very slender, 1.5 em. long; flowers odorless; perianth seg- 
ments dark green but becoming deep red, 4, united at the base, 
in full anthesis somewhat reflexed, elliptic, roughened and faintly 
papillate, thick, prominently blistered on the inner side; stami- 
neal tube green when young, when old dark red, thicker than the 
pedicel, 5 or more mm. long, dark brown as the segments in the 
dry state, glabrous, terminated by a flattened globose head; 
anthers bright yellow, sessile, elongated, vertically inserted upon 
the head, numerous. 
Type specimen 12465, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Collected in shrubberies and forming dense masses in sand 
gravelly soil of the Pauala river bottom at 1000 feet altitude. 
Most of our Philippine piteher plants inhabit subalpine or purely 
