AnousT 18, 1913] Four 3coaE of Nkvt Plants 1811 



wide across the middle, horizontal mostly, ovately oblong; 

 midrib dark brown, smooth, more conspicuous beneath; the 

 lateral nerves 5 to 7 on each side, ascendingly curved, the 

 basal one or two pairs rather faint, tips likewise vt-ry faint, 

 reticulations minute or faint yet quite evident from both 

 sides; petiole 1 cm. long or less, rather slender, widely 

 cmiculate. Inflorescence upon leafless branchlets, terminal, 

 loosely or irregularly branched, 2 to 5 dm. long or less; 

 spikes solitary or usually few clustered, 5 to 15 cm. long, 

 unbranched, usually curved, canescent; pedicels similar in 

 vestitnre, 5 to 8 mm. long, ascending, strict, alternatingly 

 arranged from near the base, persistent, subtended by small 

 triangular bracts, usually 1 or 2-bracteate; calyx 4 mm. long, 

 finely pubescent on the exterior, subturbinate, slightly im- 

 bricate and ciliate along the margins, the basal one third 

 united; the lobes elliptic, broadly rounded at the apex, with 

 an elongated callous gland along the upper side at its base; 

 petals 5, free, caducous, sagittately truncate at base, with a 

 1 to 2 mm. long flattened claw, toward 1 cm. long, the 

 lamina portion rotund or obovately so, margins conspicuously 

 fimbriate or lacerate, the sides well folded upon the ventral 

 surface, strongly imbricate, nearly equal in size and shape, 

 conspicuously veiny, puberulent on the exterior exposed 

 portion; stamens 10, inserted around the ovary; filaments 

 subglabrous, very unequal in length, the lower one 7.5 mm. 

 long and as tnick as the style, the inner and upper ones 

 much shorter and thinner, nearly straight except the basal 

 one which curves parallel with the style; anther at least 1 

 mm. long, ovately elongated, obtuse at apex, basifixed, light 

 yellow, ventrally dehiscing, obscurely sagittate at base; style 

 thick, carnosus, at least 1 cm. long, hairy toward the thick- 

 ened base, strongly curved, bearing an oblique stigma; ovary 

 rugose, partly imbedded, the exerted portion finely hirsute, 

 conically flattened. 



Type specimen number 12589, A, D. E. Elmer, Brooks 



Point (Addison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 



Collected along the coast in somewhat swampy soil covered 

 with jungled woods at 25 feet altitude. 



