1848 Leafi.kts of Philippine Botany [Voij. V, Art. !)S*. 



1 dm. long, short but densely tawny hairy, shorter in the 

 smaller leaves. Panicle terminal, erect, the green and tomentose 

 angular 5 to 8 cm. long stalks subtended by foliaeeous 

 bracts; the branches opposite, the lower ones longer, subtended 

 V)y caducous bracts, all light olivaceus tomentose,. rebranched 

 above the middle, forming a corymbose panicle, the ultimate 

 branchlets short and few, flower bearing at their ends; terminal 

 flower solitary, odorless, upon 1 cm. long pedicel, the pedicels 

 of the few clustered lateral flowers shorter, all subtended by 

 linear densely tomentose early falling bracts;, calyx elendeily 

 turbinate, 1.5 cm. long, about one half as wide across the 

 top, puberulent on the exterior and on the ventral side of 

 the segments toward the apex, much paler green; sepals 5, 

 Hubequal, at least one half the entire calyx length, oblongish 

 but slenderly' tapering toward the acuminate to subcaudate 

 point, 3 mm. wide, reticulately veined, with few large glands 

 in the middle region of the ventral side; corolla creamy 

 white except the purple throat, 2.5 cm. long, the basal two 

 thirds tubular and puberulent on the exterior except at the 

 base, the tube strongly striate on the exterior, the distal 

 f)ud portion a trifle tipped and obovately oblong; lobe.*? 

 ultimately widely preading, occasionally gland punctate, oblong- 

 more narrowed toward the base, 8 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, 

 apex obtusely rounded to acute, faintly puberulent toward 

 the apex on the dorsal side and along the distal edge, the 

 margins below the middle undulate or obscurely and irregular^ 

 ly dentate; stamens 4 or more, inserted upon the corolla 

 throat, 2 cm. long, glabrous, usually curved toward the distal 

 end, strongly looped ia the bud; style articulate to ovary, 

 very similar to the filaments, subcompressed and laterally 

 grooved, cremeus though greenish toward the distal end; an- 

 thers elliptic, 2.5 mm. long, 1.25 mm. wide, the basal one 

 half more tapering and sagittately lobed, subdorsifixed, trun- 

 cately rounded at apex, compressed, drying blackish brown; 

 ovary glabrous, short but thick columnar, upon a constricted 

 base, with a very deep green stigma. 



Type specimen number 12860, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Prince.-ia (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Forming extensive copses in good well drained ground 

 among light woods bordering cogon patches at 500 feet alti- 



