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long by 4 cm. wide at or a trifle below the middle, entire 

 around the base, otherwise crenately toothed, oblongish or 

 ovately elliptic, hispid beneath and especially along the 

 margins, smoother on the upper surface, the uppermost 

 leaves much smaller; midvein dirty brown beneath, the 6 

 pairs of nerves less prominent, ascending and strongly curved 

 toward their tips, reticulations none; petiole 2 cm. long or 

 shorter, slender, hispidly pubescent. Inflorescence arising from 

 the uppermost leaf axils, usually subtended by diverse 

 foliaceous bract?, upon slender puber\ilent suberect 1 to B 

 cm. long stalks; spikes erect, loosely flowered, about equal- 

 ling the peduncle in length, appearing obscurely 4-angled; 

 flowers opposite, each subtended by an erect foliaceous 

 bracteole; this green bract 1.25 cm. long, oblong or broadly 

 lanceolate, petiolate and strongly curved upwardly at the 

 base, margins denticulate and ciliate, the stout midvein also 

 ciliate toward the apex; calyx segments 10 to 15 mm. long, 

 5 in number, linear lanceolate, ciliate along the margins 

 above the middle and toward the caudate apex, the 

 longer 1.5 mm. wide below the middle, the two smaller 

 ones narrower and shorter; corolla white except the short 

 purplish blue segments and the yellowish zone on the inside 

 at about the middle, 1.7 cm. long, tubular toward the base, 

 the upper two thirds saccate, glabrous, bearing at the apex 

 5 broadly oblong segments; stamens fertile, 4, inserted upon 

 the middle portion of the corolla, the adnate portion ciliate 

 as well as the free portion of the longer filaments; longer 

 filaments 3 mm. long, flattened, provided with hyaline 

 hairs, the shorter pair less than one half as long and 

 glabrous; anther linear, 1.5 mm. long, subdorsifixed, sagittate 

 at base, notched at apex, the back reddish brown, cell 

 walls whitish; ovary obovoidly elongated, glabrous, brown, 

 bearing a very slender minutely ciliate style 1 cm. long. 

 Capsule 1 cm. long, more tapering toward the base, angular, 

 fluted, 2-celled, 8-seeded, blunt at apex which opens first in 

 dehiscence; seed lenticular, at least 1.5 mm. across, reddish 

 brown, densely hairy along the edges, borne by the sharply 

 curved and pointed raphides. 



Type specimen number 12678, A. D. E. Elmer, Brooks 

 Point (Addison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 



