1876 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V,^ Art. 94 



die; main branches ascending, brown and grayish lendcelled, 

 old bark yellowiah brown; twigs lax and slender; leaves 

 descending, flat, membranous, much deeper green beneath; 

 inflorescence terminal, suberect, the stalks and calyx green, 

 corolla yellowish green on the outside, aurantiacus on the 

 upper side of the lobes; bracts white, descending, showy. 



Represented by number 13301 Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt, 

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



Upon moist rocky banks of the Catangan creek at 750 

 feet altitude. "Talawantawa" is the Manobo name. 



MYRMECODIA JACK 

 Myrraecodia urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 



Epiphytic and insectivorous; bulb solitary or few cluster- 

 ed, the clusters usually a trifle grown together at the base, 

 varying from 5 cm. to 1.5 dm. long and proportionate 

 in thickness, ellipsoid or usually the older ones thicker 

 below the middle, cucumber shaped, the surface nearly arde- 

 siacus, with shallow more or less longitudinally curved ridges 

 which are provided with soft spines, herbaceous, honeycombed, 

 canal brown, otherwise the meat is white or greenish white; 

 neck short, solid, 1 to 3 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. thick, erect, 

 composed of 4 vertical scars densely surrounded by similar 

 spines, alternating with 4 grooves of flower producing sections. 

 Leaves folded, arranged in rows, chiefly terminal, erect, 

 glabrous, curing, brown on both side, thickly coriaceous, soon 

 falling and leaving rows of conspicuously plated scars, flat 

 or only the acute apex recurved, attenuate toward the base, 

 dull green on both sides, blades 5 to 7 cm. long, 1.5 cm. 

 wide at the middle, narrowly oblong or broadly oblanceolate; 

 midrib shining maroon or badius brown and quite prominent 

 beneath; the 4 to 6 lateral nerves subdivaricate and only 

 slightly curved, tips barely united, reticulations obsolete; 

 petiole 2 to nearly 5 cm. long, distinctly cauiculate along 

 the upper side especially toward the somewhat enlarged base, 

 glabrous, the lower side similar in luster and color to the 

 midrib, arranged or scattered in the smooth vertical sections, 

 more or less protested by the adjoining scar bristles. Flow- 



