August 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1799 



die or below the middle or just at the middle; midrib bold 

 beneath, caniculate above; lateral nerves 4 to 5 pairs, 

 much aseendingly curved and nearly as bold beneath, tips, 

 obscurely anastomosing, reticulations very conspicuous from 

 beneath only; petiolule 3 to 5 cm. long, terete, slender, 

 similarly pubescent, much enlarged at the base. Panicle 

 profuse, terminal, varying from 3 dm. to 1 m. in 

 length, very limp, curvingly erect, densely ferrugineus ex- 

 cept the dark atro-violaceus or vinosus flowers; branches 

 alternating, similarly rebranched, subtended by blunt exter- 

 nally pubescent bracts; the sessile flowers easily falling, their 

 subtending bracteoles subpersistent; calyx turbinate, 3.5 mm. 

 long, fully as wide across the top, densely fulvus pubescent 

 on the exterior; the 5 teeth short, broadly triangular, the 

 upper one branched and obscurely notched at the apex, the 

 2 lateral ones are the smallest; petals more or less united 

 about the stamineal column toward the base, subequal in 

 length; banner 6 to 7 mm. long, the upper one half broad- 

 ly ovate, widely cordate at base, rounded at apex, 4.5 mm. 

 wide toward the base, ventrally folded and nearly at right 

 angles from the others, when in full anthesis with a triang- 

 ular finely spotted central pale yellow blotch; wings 1 to 2 

 ram. shorter, oblong and rounded at apex, abruptly constricted 

 one third from the base, one of the basal sides broad and 

 ending in a prominent appendage, the opposite side much 

 narrower and merely apiculate; keels united, as long as the 

 banner, broadly oblong for nearly the upper two thirds, deeply 

 sagittate at base, notched at apex, the apical lobes rounded, 

 strongly folded upon the upper side, 4 mm. wide when spread, 

 the claw gradually expanded toward the lamina; stamens as 

 long, 10, only one half of them fertile; filaments glabrous, the 

 upper one third free, those of the sterile tube are very finely 

 purplish spotted; anther versatile, elliptic, less than 0.5 mm. 

 long; ovary compressed, lanceolately linear, densely tawny 

 hairy, glabrous at the constricted base; style also glabrous, 

 2 mm. long or one half as long as the ovary, very slender 

 and aseendingly curved, bearing a minute stigma. 



Type specimen number 13105, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Found sprawling over dense secondary forests of moist 



