952 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, ArT. 53 
TRICHOSPORUM Don 
Trichosporum philippinensis (CIk.) O.K. 
Represented by number 11705, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, September, 1909. 
This elimbing vine is rare in the forests at 3750 feet to- 
ward Mainit creek of mount Apo, and is not at alliypical. Com- 
mon in the mountainous sections of northern Luzon. The 
Bagobos call it ‘‘Tapol.’’ 
Trichosporum cardinale Copel. 
Field-note:—Straggling epiphytes upon small trees and 
shrubs 3 to 10 feet from the ground of forested ridges at 6000 feet 
of mount Calelan; branches lax, descending, breaking with a 
snap, quite numerous and forming loose bushes; leaves coria- 
ceous, dull green above, yellowish so beneath, flat, tips 
slightly recurved; pedicels and calyx greenish, erect or 
suberect; corolla curvingly erect, rather soft in texture, the 
lower and lateral tips recurved or reflexed, cardinal red 
on the exterior, spotted and streaked with darker red on 
the interior toward the throat; filaments pale red; style red- 
dish, the flat stigma greenish. It was observed repeatedly 
in the rainy and mossy forests, and always with a few flowers 
only which are of a very pretty pleasing color. The Bagobos 
call it ''Colela." 
Represented by number 10619, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Trichosporum asclepioides Elm. n. sp. 
Epiphytic from the rootstock mass of Lecanopteris pumila 
Blm; stems several, sparingly branched, flexible, grayish white, 
5 to 8 dm. long. Leaves very thick, rigid, glabrous, the 
sharply acuminate tips recurved, yellowish green on the up- 
per side, much paler beneath and with a dark purple 
midrib, opposite, widely scattering, 1 dm. long by 3 cm. 
wide across the middle, lanceolate or the larger ones ob- 
longish or the basal much reduced and subelliptic, the entire 
