994 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
similarly strigose, varying up to 5 cm. in length; stipules 
deciduous, acuminate, 1 cm. long, rusty brown pubescent. 
Inflorescence 1 dm. long, nearly as wide, dichotomously 
paniculate, fuliginous pubescent; the deciduous bracts densely 
pubescent, linearly acuminate, 5 mm. long or longer; pedicels 
and short stipitate flowers easily becoming detached; calyx 
5 mm. long, oblong in outline, bristly deep rusty brown 
pubescent; the 5 segments nearly as long, 1.5 mm. wide 
at the base, gradually tapering to the acuminate point, rather 
thick, with similarly colored hairs, deciduous, occasionally 
with an outer large attractive segment; corolla tube yellowish 
green, curved, 2 cm. long, gradually tapering from base to 
apex, the upper portion densely hairy; lobes 5, oval to 
elliptic, densely pubescent on the outside, the upper orange 
red side pulverulent, united below the middle, apex broadly 
rounded, quite thick; style slender, glabrous; stigma entire, 
linearly acute, flattened, puberulent; stamens 5, inserted upon 
the middle of the tube which is pilose in the stamineal region; 
filaments 0.5 mm. long, flat, glabrous, adnate to the corolla; 
anthers 6 mm. long, narrowly linear, attached on the back 
below the middle; fruit ellipsoid, nearly 2 cm. long, apex 
rounded, more tapering at the base, 2-celled; seeds numerous, 
pitted, slightly compressed, rounded from the side view and 
with an evident pointed angle, brown. 
Type specimen 11309, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Collected this scandent Mussaenda in a humid forested 
flat at 3750 feet. The suberect reddish brown inflorescence 
coupled with the broad membranous slightly descending leaves 
gave the shrub a unique appearance. ‘“‘Botay’’ is the ver- 
nacular Bagobo name. Named after the celebrated botanist, 
Soler y Vidal. 
It cannot be referred to either M. anisophylla Vid. nor 
to M. grandifolia Elm. 
Mussaenda nervosa Elm. n. sp. 
A shrub; stems several, 3 m. high, numerously branch- 
ed, the branchlets erect, with young portion of the twigs 
dirty brown pilose; wood soft, greenish, odorless and taste- 
less; bark gray, with small flat lenticels beneath the skin. 
