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a slate pencil, greenish, creeping, occasionally branched, tak- 

 ing root at the joints, the distal ends erect or suberect; 

 leaves horizontally spreading, thinly coriaceous, flat and only 

 gradually recurved, much lighter green beneath; flowers erect, 

 in small axillary clusters, calyx green and persistent, the 

 corolla white, stamens of the same color and deciduous. 



Represented by number 14122, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

 Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 1912. 



Dense masses upon moist humus covered soil in the 

 ravine at 4250 feet altitude of Cawilanan peak. "Hagonoy" 

 is the Manobo name. 



HYDNOPHYTUM Jack 

 Hydnophytum orbiculatus Elm. n. sp. 



Epiphytic and insectivorous; bulb 2 dm. across, rugose 

 or obscurely lobed, grayish brown, rather smooth, soft in 

 texture, coarsely honey combed; stems several from the same 

 end, ascending, 5 dm. long or less, terete, the larger ones 

 rebranched, very flexible, the joints roughened by the old 

 leaf scars, 5 to 8 mm. in diameter, the green distal ends 

 glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, pale green, easily breaking, the 

 entire marginal sides somewhat curved upon the lower and 

 slightly paler green surface, opposite, glabrous, rather closely 

 crowded toward the ends, quite variable in size but not in 

 shape, the larger ones 3.5 by 4.5 cm., frequently much 

 smaller, orbicular, subsessile; midrib quite evident from both 

 sides, with 3 or 4 very obscure lateral pairs; stipules brown, 

 short but broad or rim-like, deciduous. Fruits solitary or few 

 in the leaf axils, ascending, dark green, ovoidly elongated, 

 bearing a truncate calyx rim, 5 to 7 mm. long, about 4 

 mm. thick between the middle and the base, 2-ceIIed, 1 

 seed in each; mature seeds or pyrenes plano-convex, nearly 

 5 mm. long and 2.5 mm. wide across the middle, easily 

 separating from the fleshy skin, oblong to elliptic from the 

 side view. 



Type specimen number 14016, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oc- 

 ober, 1912, 



