July 3, 1913] Palawan Acantiiaceae 1703 



be compared with G. decurrens Stapf. 



Qymnostachyum subcordatum Elm. n. sp. 



Caespitose perennial herbs; roots terete, flexible, dirty 

 yellowish; stems similar, creeping, branched, their branchlets 

 suberect, crooked and quite rigid toward the base, densely 

 tomentose. Leaves opposite, I to 2 cm. apart, horizontally 

 spreading, subcoriaceous, rather rugose and darker green on 

 the upper surface, nearly flat, much paler or lighter beneath 

 even in the dry state, entire, pulverulent or finely hispidulous 

 on the upper side, velvety tomentose beneath, apex rounded 

 or occasionally broadly obtuse, b^se broadly rounded to 

 cordate, usually subcordate, the larger lamina 5 cm. long 

 by 3 cm. wide across the middle or below this, elliptic to 

 rotund, occasionally ovately so; midvein tomentose beneath, 

 puberulent above; lateral ones 3 or 4, most of them arising 

 from near the base and much ascendingly curved, their tips 

 scarcely united, reticulations obsolete; longer petioles 4 cm. 

 in length, occasionally lilacinus, densely velutinous pubes- 

 cent, the shorter ones less than 1 cm. long, thick and 

 fleshy. Spikes olivaceous pubescent, few to several, seldom 

 solitary, terminal, rather strict and erect, prreatiy varying 

 from 5 cm, to 2 dm. in length, usually flower bearing 

 from below the middle; flowers somewhat scattered at the 

 base, secund, ascending, subtended by 3 bracts, sessile; 

 bracts strongly 3-veined, 3 mm. long, lanceolate, pubescent, 

 1.25 mm. wide at the base; calyx segments 5 mm. long, 

 united at the base, the inner ones shorter and nar- 

 rower, otherwise similar to the bracts; corolla 7 mm. long 

 siccately tubular below the middle, the upper one half 2- 

 lipped, puberulent along the veins in the throat region and 

 on the exterior, the larger lip veiny, broad and 3-lobed; the 

 opposite lip elliptic, hyaline and emarginate at the apex; 

 stamens 2, fertile; filaments thick, brown, glabrous, inserted 

 upon the middle of the corolla or a trifle below it, 1.5 

 mm. long; anthers 2 mm. long, bilobed and basifixed at 

 the ba.-?e, apiculate at apex, somewhat dorso-ventvally com- 

 pressed, reddish brown on tlie back, introrse, 0.75 mm. wide" 

 ovary ellipsoid, 1.5 mm. long, glabrous, bearing a 3 mm. 



