Arc.usT IS, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1765 



nearly castaneus, finely checked, the middle zone yellow- 

 ish, testaceus on the inside. Leaves few, widely scattered, 

 alternate, divaricate and horizontally spreading, 3 to 5 

 dm. long, terete, glabrous, green, much thickened at the 

 base; leaflets subchartaceous, similarly disposed, flat, duller 

 green above, brown when dry or reddish brown on the nether 

 side, glabrous, mostly acute at apex, broadly obtuse or round- 

 ed at base, oblong, the lower pairs usually a trifle smaller, 

 entire, the average 2 dm. long by 6 cm. wide at the mid- 

 dle; raidvein bold beneath, deeply furrowed aliove; lateral 

 nerves also conspicuous beneath, the 7 to 10 pairs ascending, re- 

 ticulately united at their ends, the cross bars and reticulations 

 quite evident from the lower side; lateral petiolule terete, 

 much thickened and finely rugose, 5 mm. long, inserted upon 

 an expanded scar. Inflorescence erect, arranged in groups 

 along branchlets; spikes solitary from the same point, greatly 

 from 1 to 7 cm. in length, rigid; the larger ones short 

 branched from near the base, short fulvus toraentose, subtend- 

 ed by similarly pubescent caducous bracts; the branches rather 

 numerously rebranched toward their ends; pedicels short, rela" 

 tively stout, subtended by bracteoles; calyx nearly flavovirens, 

 widely fusiform, coriaceous, the basal 2 mm. united and con- 

 stricted, oblong or obscurely obovately oblong, apex obtusely 

 rounded, finely ciliate along the margins and puberulert on 

 the exposed back especially toward the base, 7 mm. long by 

 2 mm. wide, subequal, black glandular dotted, obscurely 1 

 to 3-ridged on the dorsal side; corolla white with a tinge 

 of red, 7.5 mm. long, forming a sort of tube, 1.75 mm. 

 wide at the middle region where the margins remain intact, 

 free at the narrowed base, linearly oblong, veinj^ apex roundly 

 obtuse, densely black dotted in the upper membranous region; 

 stamens 10; filaments similar in color, glabrous, more or less 

 united about the base, the longer ones 5 mm. in length, the 

 alternating intervening ones much shorter, all glabrous; anthers 

 citrinus, 0.5 mm. long, horse-shoe shaped, lobed at the base, 

 basifixed; ovary 2.5 mm. long, obovoidly oblique, pubescent; 

 style thick, also hairy, about as long or shorter, with a dark 

 green stigma. 



Type specimen number 13083, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



