August 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1785 



to a fine point, subtended by the snbpersistent calyx and 

 all by a separate 6 mm. long greenish bract, the true pe- 

 dicel only a few mm. in length. 



Type specimen number 13213, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Inhabiting rock crevices among loose rocky sandbanks 

 of rivulets in very deeply shaded woods at 2500 feet altitude. 



Dichrotrichum biflorum Elm. n sp. 



Subscandent and suffrutescent, upon shrubs or small 

 trees; twigs more or less angular and covered by the caesius 

 papyraceous finely pubescent bark, slender, wiry, taking root 

 all along. Leaves alternate, widely scattered, elliptic or 

 subelliptically oblong, the blades 5 by 10 cm., flat, hori- 

 zontal or descending, coriaceous, a trifle paler green beneath, 

 drying grayish brown, sparsely yet softly pubescent on both 

 sides, base obtuse or truncately rounded, apex blunt and with 

 an obtuse point, margins entire toward the base, otherwise 

 apiculately dentate, the young ones densely tomeutose on 

 both sides but especially upon the nether; midrib flat, more 

 densely pubescent than the surface of the lamina, the 5 to 

 7 oblique nerves equally evident from both sides, with their 

 tips curved, reticulations none; petiole slender, 3 to 5 cm. 

 long, strigosely tomentose; stipule subpersistent, 7 mm. long, 

 about one half as wide, linear, obtuse to acute at apex; 

 soft pubescent on the back and on the apical ventral side. 

 Flower in axillary pairs, the short common stalk strigose, 

 subsessile; calyx about 1.25 cm. long, the 5 segments only 

 united at the base, erect, finely veined and hairy, linear, 

 less than 3 mm. wide, apex abruptly pointed or usually 

 3-dentate; the 2 lateral teeth unequal in size and smaller 

 than the middle one; corolla 8 to 4 cm. long, gradually 

 expanded from the base toward apex, glabrous except the 

 exterior above the middle and with several hair tufts on 

 the inside toward base, slightly compressed and with oblique 

 throat, membranous; lobes short, unequal, truncately rounded, 

 divaricate in anthesis, entire or the lower ones obscurely 

 fimbriate; stamens 2, inserted at about the middle of the 

 corolla; filaments 2.5 to 3 era. long, glabrous, slender yet 



