1700 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 91 



QYMNOSTACHYUM Nees 

 Qymnostachyum nudispicum (Clk.) Elm. n. comb. 

 Ruellia (?) nudispica Clarke in Philip. Journ. Sci. I, 

 Suppl, IV; 248, 1906. 



Field-note: — Perennial herbs in fertile soil packed with 

 gravel stones along a creek bottom at 250 feet altitude and 

 in dense woods interspersed with bamboos; stem reclining at 

 the base, usually considerably raised above the ground sur- 

 face, the leaf bearing portion erect, dirty green, with numerous 

 slender fleshy roots; leaves soft membranous, the petioles 

 ascending, the blades horizontally spreading, the upper surface 

 mixed with darker and lighter green patches, beneath 

 uniformly much paler green; peduncle badius as are also 

 the bracts and even the calyx; flowers ascending, only 

 slightly recurved, the basal one half tubular and white, the 

 segments as well as the inflated upper portion violaceus, 0.75 

 inch long. 



Represented by number 12794, Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. 

 Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Qymnostachyum ptctum Elm. n. sp. 



Individual herbs or in small clusters; stem glabrous, 

 terete and striate, sibangular wlien dry, reclining and taking 

 root at the lower joints, ultimately suberect, few branched, 

 varying from 5 to 15 cm. long; l)ranches relatively short, 

 glabrous, curing black. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, smooth 

 and glabrous on both sides, dark velvety green above and 

 with ashy gray median zones which character is plainly evident 

 even in the blackish brown dry leaves, obtusely rounded or 

 merely rounded at the apex, flat and horizontal, pale green 

 and occasionally purplish tinged on the lower surface which 

 in the dry state is conspicuously lighter colored, the average 

 blades 6 cm. long by one half as wide a trifle below the 

 middle, elliptic or ovately elliptic, edges thin and entire, base 

 very abruptly cuneate or occasionally the sides subtruncate; 

 midvein dirty brown beneath, quite evident; the 4 to 6 

 lateral nerves equally evident beneath, gracefully curved 

 ascendingly, their tips running close to the margins, reticu- 



