AroL'ST 18, 1013] Four Score of New Plants 1783 



u.^ually inequilateral, obtusely rounded in the small ones 

 and subjune.ite in the larger lamina, ovately oblong or broad- 

 ly lanceolate, the larger blades 12 cm. long, almost 4 cm. 

 wide at or a trifle below the middle, opposite, very un- 

 equil or auisophylloii;^, leaving roughened scars after fall- 

 ing, the smaller ones 1.5 by 3 cm. in size; midrib dense- 

 ly fulvus and quite evident beneath, similarly pubescent 

 above; lateral pairs 10 to 12, oblique, subparallel and 

 slightly curved, similar in vestitiire, reticulations not evident, 

 the smaller leaves have only one half as many nerves; 

 longer petiole 1.5 cm., densely fulvus, those of the smaller 

 bliides one third as long. Flowers odorless, 1 to 3-cluster- 

 ed from the leaf axils, ascending so as to be barely above 

 the foliage, becoming pendant after an thesis; peduncle few 

 mm. long, brown hirsute, bearing 1 to 3 flowers at the 

 distal end; pedicel similar in vestiture and equal in length, 

 subtended by a pair of rather large broadly lanceolate pu- 

 bescent green bracts; calyx green, cyiiiidric, 1 cm. long, 3.5 

 mm. thick, membranous; the 5 segments linear lanceolate 

 and extended nearly to the middle of the calyx, very membra- 

 nous, soft hirsute on the exterior and along the edges of the 

 acuminately pointed teeth, veined, the 2 finer lateral veins 

 united with the middle one and forming a stout midvein toward 

 the apex; corolla flattish, nearly 1.5 cm. long, the basal 

 one half cylindric, inflated at the middle and expanded to- 

 ward the distal end, also membranous, creamy white, glab- 

 rous, slightly puberulent on the exerted outside, the lobes 

 subequal and broadly rounded; the upper lip p irple lined 

 or streaked, the lower with a twice of yellow on the flhroat; 

 stamens 2, inserted a trifle below the middle; filaments 

 carnosus, subglabrous, strongly looped from the middle; an her 

 broadly elliptic, obscurely bilobed at the base; ovary elong- 

 ated, 3 mm- long, gradually extended into the 4 to 5 mm. 

 long rather thick style, very sparsely strigose or glabrous; 

 stigma subcnpitate. 



Type specimen number 13092, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Inhabiting rock crevices upon sandy seepage ledges along 

 deeply shaded streamlets at 750 feet altitude. 



