August 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1781 



very evident from the nether side only. Inflorescence ascend- 

 ing or horizontal, axillary or alternatingly clustered along 

 nearly leafless branchlets; spikes solitary but usually clusterecl, 

 from a few to 5 cm. long, short pubescent, flower benring 

 from the base; pedicels 1 cm. long, slender and bracteate, 

 similarly yellowish puherulent, divaricate and usually curved, 

 subtended by minute bracts; flowers creraeus, with a sweet 

 linden odor; perianth shallowly cup shaped, 7.5 mm. broad, 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous or puberulent at the concrete base 

 and along the margins, appearing finely papillose on the 

 outside; segments 2.5 mm. long, about 15, the outer much 

 larger ones alternating with the^ smaller ones, the former 

 are elliptic, the later are linear oblong, all united into a 

 broad base; stamens very numerous, inserted upon the disk- 

 like base of the perianth; filaments white or when old yel- 

 lowish, glabrous, filiform and laxly interlaced, unequal in 

 length, the larger 6 mm. long; anther,s subdorsifixed, 

 truncate and obscurely bifid at base, ovately elliptic, 1.25 

 ram. long, the apical one third sterile or warped into a 

 strongly recurved glandular point, dehiscing laterally; ovary 

 3 mm. long, ellipsoid, glabrous; style fleshy, strict, 5 mm. 

 long, also glabrous, terminated by a slightly enlarged green 

 stigma. Young fruits green, ellipsoid, 1.25 cm. long, with 

 several red seeds. 



Type specimen number 12802, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Discovered in fertile humus covered ground of the 

 Dipterocarp forested flat at 250 feet altitude. 



Related to S. roxburghii Clos. and to S. luzonensis Warb. 

 but apparently nearest to the former. 



GESNERIACEAE 

 Cyrtandra elatostemmoides Elm. n. sp. 



Low perennial plants; stems few from the same root, 

 3 to 5 dm. long, erect or reclining toward the base, 7 mm. 

 thick, angular or fluted, usually unbranched, thickly tomen- 

 tose with olivaceus hairs. Leaves opposite, very anisophyl- 

 lous, well scattered, those toward the base somewhat reduced, 



