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small slender leaf-like bracts, compressed, striate, glabrate or 

 pulverulent; branchlets ascending, quite short and occasionally 

 rebranched, otherwise similar to the peduncle; petiole sub- 

 erect, 2 to 5 mm. long, pulveruletit or puberulent, be- 

 coming nearly glabrous; calyx glabrous, reddish, 2.5 mm 

 long, sharply 5 -toothed; corolla also glabrous and similarly 

 tinged in the dry state, adnate, at least 2 mm. long, the 

 broadly linear 4 lobes separating nearly to the base; filaments 

 short, inserted near the base of the corolla; anther 1.5 mm. 

 long, linear, basifixed, emarginate at apex; style 2 mm. 

 long, glabrous, barely cleft at the stigraatic end; ovary with 

 4 broad cushion-like appendages; capsule coriaceous, turning 

 red while curing, glabrous, compressed, obreniformly winged, 

 1 cm. broad, only a few mm. deep, 2-celled, dehiscing 

 across the whole length of the top; seeds very numerous in 

 each cell, brown, squarrosely angular, 0.25 to 0.33 mm. 

 across . 



Type specimen number 14223, A. D. E. Elmer, Mani- 

 bajao (Camiguin Island), Province of Misarais, Mindanao, 

 November, 1912. 



In loose well disintegrated shale rock and in deeply shaded 

 places at about 3000 feet above the sea. 



Differs from 0. mungos Linn., its nearest ally, by its 

 lanceolate and very short petiole or subsessile leaves; and 

 by its fewer, more scattering and pedicellate capsules. 



Ophiorrhiza curtiflora Elm. n. sp. 



Low and somewhat succulent herbs; stems terete, averag- 

 ing 2 dm. long, 3 to 5 mm. thick, creeping or reclining 

 and branched, forming more or less dense masses, the ulti- 

 mate portion fuligineus pubescent or scurfy and suberect; 

 roots fibrous, yellowish and scattered along the lower side 

 but especially at the point of branching; twigs few to sev- 

 eral, relatively short, suberect toward the top only, fulvus 

 tomentose. Leaves opposite, unequal, membranous, ascending 

 or horizontal, flat, velvety deep green beneath and veiny, 

 depressed on the upper side, glaucous white or green 

 beneath even in the dry state, dark greenish on the upper 

 densely roughened and minutely hispid though glabrous side. 



