1878 Leaflets op Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 94 



caniculate above, rather stout; bud bract 1.5 cm. long, 6 

 mm. wide, oblong, cinereous on the basal exterior, brown 

 when dry. Fruits upon erect or ascending stalks; peduncle 

 solitary or 3-clustered, 4 to 6 cm. long, stout, angular, brown, 

 puberulent, thickened and articulate at the distal end; head 

 globose or rugosely so, nearly 2 cm. in diameter, smaller 

 in the green bud state, subtended by brown nearly glabrous 

 very caducous bracts; flowering bracts 4 to 6 mm. long, 

 flattened, sparsely pubescent along the edges and upon ex- 

 posed surface, terminated by a velvety brown cone; corolla 



1 cm. long, tubular, cremeus, 1 mm. thick at the base, 

 twice as thick toward throat; the 5 lobes oblong, 1.5 

 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, the middle outer region finely 

 pubescent as well as the upper portion of the tube; stamens 

 5, included; glabrous filaments attached 2 mm. below the 

 throat, 1 mm. long; anther pale yellow, 1.25 mm. long, 

 oblong, basifixed, irregularly truncate at apex; style 1.5 to 



2 cm. long, filiform, glabrous, terminated by a subglobose 

 stigma; capsules or cocci 2-celled, 7.5 mm. long, angular, 

 not concrete, gradually tapering from base to apex, bearing 

 a much thickened deciduous more or less yellowish pulverulent 

 truncate cap, dehiscing laterally; placenta wiry, slender, 

 somewhat thickened at the apex, persistent; seeds light brown, 

 lenticular, provided at each end with slightly unequal 

 flattened silvery white appendages; receptacle less than 1 

 cm. long, densely provided with ciliate bracteoles. 



Type specimen number 13910, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ember, 1912. 



Discovered in wet sand gravelly soil among larger 

 bowlders along the wooded banks of the Dalahion river at 

 about 1000 feet altitude. Also observed upon precipitous 

 high bluffs along the Minusuang river at 500 feet lower 

 elevation. Called "Mahambolod" by the Manobos. Named 

 with pleasure after Sr. Andres Atega, a planter and com- 

 mercial man of Cabadbaran, through whose kind aid I was 

 enabled to explore this region. 



Its affinity is with iV. Kentii Merr. and N. mindanaeniis 

 of the same author. 



