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obtuse to rounded. Staminate spikes more elongated and 

 usually somewhat curved, upon a rather thick receptacle; 

 staminate cluster 7.5 mm. long, subtended by a 3 mm. 

 deep angular cupular persistent bract, short stipitate; the 4 

 perianth segments in the bud state curving over and forming 

 a plated surface, ultimately widely spreading, of two slightly 

 unequal pairs, thickly coriaceous, obcuneate, nearly 4 mm. 

 long; anther cells light yellow, in an obovoid or nearly 

 ellipsoid mass, numerous, arranged vertically; female heads 

 finely tuberculate, carnosus, ellipsoid, the larger ones 4 cm. 

 long and one half as wide; fertile flowers barely more 

 than I ram. long, clavate, surrounded by numerous sterile 

 ones or filiform paraphyses almost as long. 



Type specimen number 10870, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, .Tune, 1909. 



Discovered in moist humus covered soil of dense for- 

 ests at -3500 feet of mount Calelan. More recently I collected 

 it again on a very steep forested slope among rocky out- 

 croppings at about the same elevation in northern Agusan 

 province. In the latter place it was quite common, appar- 

 ently in colonies. The individual clusters are of all sizes, 

 from a few inches to a foot or more across, forming circu- 

 lar masses and their color appealing to the eye as readily 

 as a bunch of red flowers. It is a distinctly alpine Balan- 

 ophora. "Kabo-kad-kad-tana" in Bagabo and "Magodaya" 

 in Manobo. 



Possibly nearest related to B. forbesii Fawc. 



