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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 53 
upper edge of the Cati creek falls at 5750 feet of mount Apo; 
stems numerously branched and interlaced, tightly cleaving 
to its support; branches terete, covered with smooth yellow- 
ish gray bark; leaves descending, flat or only the tips re- 
curved, very deep green and richly shining on the upper 
surface, very much paler green or even grayish green be- 
neath, heavy, thickly coriaceous; peduncle 1 to 2 feet long, 
terete, greenish, descendingly curved, flatly forked at the 
distal end and bearing a few foliaceous bracts; calyx and 
ascendingly curved pedicels deep red; corolla similarly curv- 
ed, 1.5 inch long, tubular below the bend, gradually 
enlarged from the middle to the throat, its 5 lobes merely 
dilated not rotately spreading or deflexed, purple red ex- 
cept the yellowish tube; filaments yellowish, style very dark 
red, anthers purplish especially their backs, the recurved 
stigmatic lobes grayish purple; young fruits 6 inches long. 
*"Talanpong" is the Bagobo name. 
Represented by number 11555, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Dichrotrichum clarkei Elm. 
Field-note:—Epiphytes upon moss covered trees or among 
numerous climbers about big tree trunks at 3750 feet, in 
exceedingly moist forests north of the Baruring river; stems few 
to several, descending, curvingly ascending toward the tips, 
terete, 0.75 inch thick, soft, green on the inside, breaking 
with a snap, covered with a smooth yellowish gray bark; 
leaves somewhat conduplicate on the upper dark green surface, 
much lighter beneath, the main veins green and watery, 
thickly coriaceous, descendingly spreading; inflorescence 
clustered in the leaf axils, subtended by dull pink bracts, 
all suberect; pedicels of the same color as the bracts; calyx 
yellowish green in anthesis, pink tipped in the bud state; 
flowers erect, odorless; corolla quite soft, curved and somewhat 
flattened above the middle, greenish yellow, more yellow 
toward the base, more green toward the apex; filaments dirty 
white, anthers of the same color; stamens 4, much diverted and 
upwardly curved; fruit terete, green, pendulous, nearly 1 foot long. 
Represented by number 10701, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, May, 1909. 
