Jnxg 13, 19131 PHII.tPPIME BALANOPflOBA 1661 



3 ram. thick, subterete; bracts 3 to 5, glabrous, deeper yellow, 

 oblongish, subinvolute in the dry state, more numerous 

 toward the base where they are loosely imbricated, 1 cm. 

 long or less, 7 mm. wide, not decurrent but somewhat 

 clasping at the base, the basal ones relatively shorter and 

 broader. Monoecious heads glofwse, 1 cm. thick, wrinkled 

 in the dry ^tate, pistillate but immediately beneath and 

 more properly upon the peduncle with scattered staminate 

 flowers; male flowers scattered, sessile, compressed, the bud? wpII 

 covered over by the apical portion of the perianth segments; lobes 



4 or more, often 5, thick, oblongish, adnate, unequal in width at 

 least, acute to obtuse at apex, barely longer than 1 mm., concavo- 

 convex; anther disk yellow, apparently with about one half 

 a dozen of hexagonal cells; female flowers 0.75 mm. long, 

 the fertile ones with an expanded or disk-like blackisk brown 

 pitted top while the greater part is light brown and stipi- 

 tate, surrounded by many sterile flowers or paraphyses equally 

 as long and fusiform at the middle, the base stipitate, the 

 apex brown and extended into a brownish style. 



Type specimen number 7197, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, 

 I^eyte, January, 1906. 



Collected in loose soil covered with dry foliage in the 

 iiill forest. Very rare! 



This is a much smaller plant than B. micrantha Warh. 

 and its subglobose heads at once distinguish it from heads 

 clavately thickened. 



Balanophora incarnata Elm. n. sp. 



Distinctly dioecious and forming rather dense clumps 

 14 to 24 cm. across; rhizome simple or more often roundly 

 lobed or branched, yellowish or isabellinus, warty and mi- 

 nutely lighter yellow pustulate; the individual ones rugose, 

 varying from 1.5 to 3 or more cm. thick, irregularly open- 

 ing at the orifice; stem few to several in a colony, of all 

 stages, from a few cm. to 1 dm, high including the spike, 

 glabrous, 5 to 7.5 mm. thick, bracteate from the base, red; 

 bracts ruber, limp; turning brown, also glabrous, divari- 

 cately spreading and usually folded upon the ventral .«ide^ 

 the lower or larger ones 3 cm. long, broadly oblong, apex 



