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especially toward the base, drying dull green, entire, glabrous, 

 cuneately attenuate toward the base, oblanceolately elongated, 

 3.5 to 4.5 dm. long, 7,5 cm. wide a trifle above the mid- 

 dle; veins parallel, about 15, the middle one more conspicuous; 

 petiole green, triangular, grooved along the upper side, 

 sheathing toward or at the base, striate, glabrous except 

 on the outside toward the marcescent base, erect, averaging 

 3 dtn. long. Peduncle axillary, ascending, flattened, 3 to 5 

 cm. long, dirty lanose; florescent heads recurved or sub- 

 pendant, 3 cm. long; lower bracts the longest, nearly equal- 

 ling the cluster, linearly lanceolate, 5 mm. wide, glabrous 

 or sparsely hairy toward the base on the dorsal side, slen- 

 derly acuminate toward apex; flowers short stipitate; ovary 

 hairy and elongated, nearly 1 cm. long; perianth subsessile, 

 spreading in anthesis, yellow especially on the upper nearly 

 glabrous surface, elongated, 7.5 mm. long, nearly one half 

 as wide below the middle, brown ciliate beneath or on tlie 

 dorsal side, 6; stamens of the same number, alternating 

 with the perianth segments; mature fruit indehiscent, 1 cm. 

 long, 5 mm. thick, ellipsoid or ovoidly so, nearly glabrous, 

 strongly rugose b}' the seeds upon drying; seeds black, Btone- 

 like, 2 mm. across, subglobose but usually a trifle pointed 

 at the place of attachment, smooth. 



Type specimen number 13584, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt, Urdaneta), Province of Agusaii, Mindanao, August, 

 1912. 



In moist fine gravelly or subsandy soil of a deeply 

 shaded and humid flat at 750 feet altitude. Forming pat- 

 ches. "Pagatpaf '■ is tlie Manobo name. 



Nearest related to C glabra Merr., whose peduncles are 

 much longer than in the species here proposed and wbi<.-b 

 are as long as those of C. recurvata Dry. 



Curculigo weberi Elm. n. sp. 



Perennial herbs and without true stem; roots numerous, 

 fibrous, arising from a ci-own. Loaves 8 to 5 in a cluster, 

 the central ones more erect, the outt^r ones recurved; blatlp^ 

 membranous, 3 to 4 dm. long, 7 cm. wiilf ;it the middh 

 or narrower in the smaller lamina, paler green beneath even 



