1702 Leaflets op Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 91 



above except the glaucous green portion along the midrib 

 and more prominent lateral nerves, much paler beneath even 

 in the brownly cured state, the larger blades ovate, the 

 smaller elliptic, both sides with scattered short hispid 

 hairs, entire, the larger ones 3 cm. long by one half as 

 wide below the middle, most of the leaves much smaller, 

 opposite; mid vein black from both sides but especially 

 from beneath; the lateral nerves 3 or 4, ascendingly 

 curved, tips barely united, reticulations none; longer 

 petiole 1 cm. long but much shorter in tbe smaller leaves, 

 short pubescent. Inflorescent spikes erect, usually solitary, 3 

 cm. long, strict or curved, subglabrous, flowers chiefly above 

 the middle; flowers in opposite pairs, the lower ones widely 

 scattered; calyx light green, short stipitate, about 6 mm, 

 long, the 5 segments united at the base; the lobes rather 

 thick, 1 mm. wide at the base, gradually tapering to the 

 sharply acuminate point, short hispid on the back; corolla - 

 gracefully recurved, 13 mm. long, eylindric below the mid- 

 dle, inflated, somewhat compressed above the middle and 

 sparingly ciliate, shallowly bilobed; upper portion with 2 

 rather broad lobes, coeruleus blue, the lower with 3 lobules 

 and with a membranous pouch or tongue on the upper side 

 at about the throat, in the bud state glandular pubescent; 

 stamens 2, caesius, fertile, erect, included; filaments inserted 

 upon the middle of the corolla tube, 2.5 mm. long, straight, 

 glabrous; anthers about as long, linearly oblong, 0.75 mm. 

 wide, bluntly apiculate at apex, sagittate at base, basifixed; 

 ovary columnar, nearly 2 mm. long, 0.75 mm. thick, pu- 

 berulent, inserted upon a glabrous base; style nearly 1 

 cm. long, sparsely strigose except the stigmatic portion. Cap- 

 sule upon 2 mm. long pedicels, at least 1 to 2 cm. long, 

 1.5 mm. thick, blunt, dehiscent from the apex into 2 re- 

 curved carpels; seeds 5 to 8 in each of the 2 cells, lenticular, 

 brown, nearly glabrous and 1 mm. across, inserted in the 

 axils of the raphides. 



Type specimen number 12741, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Forming dense patches in compact soil of open deforested 

 places at 250 feet altitude. 



Related to but not identical with the preceding. Also to 



