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ed into the decurrent blade, very short in the uppermost small 

 leaves; midvein puberulent on its sides below, dirty brown; 

 lateral nerves in the larger leaves about 6 pairs, much as- 

 cending but only slightly curved, equally visible from both 

 sides, tips reticulately united. Inflorescence composed of short 

 glomerated spikes, from the uppermost leaf axils, upon 

 short or more elongated common erect stalks which are 

 somewhat edged and finely ciliate, solitary or 2 or 3-clus- 

 tered from the same cluster, subtended by a diverse set of 

 foliaceous bracts, 1 to 2 cm. across; the larger spikes occasion- 

 ally short branched, the rachis puberulent, secund flowers 

 numerous and when in anthesis divaricate, bracts greenish but 

 with blackish tips, when old becoming purplish, 2 to each flower, 

 ' 3.5 mm. long, keeled, oblong, slightly united and hirsute at base, 

 sharply pointed, margins above the middle with tack shaped hairs; 

 calyx segments very similar, imbricate, erect, oblanceolate, 

 glabrous toward the base, ciliate pubescent along the keel 

 or midvein and margins, the inner two slightly shorter and 

 narrower, all acuminately pointed; corolla purplish or white, 

 at least 5 mm. long, throat hairy, otherwise glabrous, 

 narrowly cylindric below the middle, expanded above it and 

 obscurely bilobed, striate, the lower lip broader than the 

 upper and two lateral ones purple blotched, all obtusely 

 rounded at apex; stamens inserted at about the middle, 4, 

 all fertile; filaments 0.5 mm. long, sparsely ciliate; anther 

 yellow, cells unequally inserted, notched at apex, lobed at 

 base, 0.75 mm. long, ovary 1 cm. long, ovoidly elongated, 

 canescent toward apex; style nearly twice as long, sparingly 

 hairy; stigma knob-like, larger than the style. Fruiting bracts 

 rigidly chartaceous, brown, spinescent; capsule 5 mm. long, 

 subcompressed, tapering from base to blunt apex, only the 

 tip puberulent, separating into divergent halves, 2 celled, 

 4-seeded; seed lenticular, upon rigidly curved spines, pu- 

 berulent, 1 mm. across. 



Type specimen number 12615, A. D. E. Elmer, Brooks 

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



On damp or moist ground of fertile wooded flats nearly 

 at sea level. "Tiagang" is its local or Tagbanua name. 



Differs from L. incurva Don {L. hyalina Nees) by its 

 larger leaves, less congested inflorescence and with much thinner 



