1660 Leaflets of Phimppine Botant fVoL. V, Art. Si 



apex, very deeply cup shaped; stem pale yellow, varying from 

 a few cm. to 1 dm. in length, glabrous, terete, blackish 

 brown when dry, more or less than 5 mm. thick, 

 erect, frequently crooked, alternatingly bracteate from the 

 base; bracts ovately oblong, partly enclosing the stem at the 

 base, the larger ones 2 cm. long by 1.5 cm. wide at the 

 base, roundly obtuse at apex or notched, the uppermost one 

 ovately oblong and smaller, glabrous on both sides, creamy 

 white while the stem is of a deeper yellow, apical margin 

 submembranous. Heads ovoidly ellipsoid or oblongish, 1 

 to 2 cm. long, 10 to 13 mm. wide below the middle, 

 terete, pistilate only but immediately beneath and more 

 properly upon the peduncle are the staminate flowers; male 

 flower sessile and scattered, subtended by 2 pairs of involucral 

 segments; the inner pair slightly smaller, the outer ones 

 nearly 2 mm. long and fully as wide, all chartaceous and 

 glabrous, concavo-convex; anther mass circular or oblongish, 

 with about 10 or more hexagonal cells; dense female head 

 appearing checkered, the fertile female flowers obovoid, 

 blackish brown, pitted, short pedicellate, surrounded by much 

 lighter brown steriie flowers or paraphyses, which are also 

 upon stipes, are fusiform and bear slender darker brown 

 styles. 



Type specimen number 7613, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban 

 (Mt. Banahao), Province of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 



Rare in loose ground near the base of a fig tree in a 

 damp ravine at 1750 feet altitude. 



Very near to B. kildebrandtii Reichb., but its few and 

 scattering bracts are not imbricated and there are other 

 differential characters. Named in honor of Mr. W. Fawcett 

 who has written an excellent review of the genus in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. Lond. 11*'; 233, 1886. 



Balanophora subg:Iobosa Elm. n. sp. 



Small but dense fleshy clumps; rhizome spreading, 

 yellowish white, tuberculate or minutely warty, the individual 

 cups ovoidly oblongish and from 1 to 1.5 cm. long, the 

 surface rugose or obscurely nodulose, irregularly splitting open 

 at the orifice; stem fleshy, yellowish tinged, 3 cm. long, 



