950 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (VoL. III, Arr. 58 
by glabrate oblong or linearly oblong bracts; pedicels filiform, 
up to 1 em. long, glabrate or finely glandular hairy; flow- 
ers terminal, chiefly 3-clustered, buds pendulous, erect and 
odorless, light blue, quite delicate; calyx glabrous, the 5 
segments spreading in a star-shaped manner, 3 mm. long, 
subequal, acuminately tapering from the united base; cor- 
olla short campanulate, glabrate or with fine glandular 
hairs scattered over the outside toward the base; segments 
5 mm. long, nearly equal in length, apex roundly obtuse, 
broadly elliptic, the upper one slightly shorter and nar- 
rowest, the lower 2 united to above the middle, all united 
at their bases; stamens 2, fertile, arising from the basal 
upper side of the ovary; filaments flattened, glabrous, 4 mm. 
long, ascendingly curved; anthers 2.5 mm. across, conni- 
vent at the apex, basifixed, obliquely dehiscent on the up- 
per ventral side; ovary glabrous, oblong, conical, bearing 
a suberect 2 to 8 mm. long, style; capsule terete, yel- 
lowish brown, 2.5 cm. long, the distal 5 mm. much con- 
stricted or beaked, ascending, glabrous, straight, both septal 
halves containing numerous seeds; seeds light brown with 
deeper brown ends, 033 mm. long, irregular but mostly 
oblong, minutely pitted, without hairs. 
Type specimen 11145, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Growing in masses among shrubs in gravelly earth on 
nearly precipitous banks along the Sibulan river gorge at 
1000 feet and bordering the cogon formation. Dedicated to 
H. N. Ridley, the author of this genus. 
Nearest related to P. vulpina Ridl. 
STAURANTHERA Bim. 
Stauranthera philippinense Elm. n. sp. 
Dirty suceulent herbs; stem usually reclining and taking 
root at the base, 7.5 mm. thick, dull green, watery, un- 
branched, glabrate except the short and rather dense crisp 
hairs toward the apex, 1 to 3 dm. high; roots fleshy. Leaves 
at the top, alternate, 1 to 4, descending, limp, flat, dark 
green above, much lighter beneath even in the dry state, 10 to 
