1040 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
to brown, terete, only opposite, scattered, not numerous, 
thick, rigid, nearly flat, glabrous and smooth, diverse in 
size, elliptic to obovately oblong, the medium ones 7.5 cm. 
long, 4 cm. wide, obtuse at the apex, oceasionally round- 
ed to subcuneate, entire; petiole 5 mm. long although 
frequently shorter and occasionally longer; midvein evident, 
the 3 lateral ascending ones very obscure or not at all ev- 
ident; stipule very short, rim-like. Flowers delicate, odorless, 
ascending, white, fascicled in the leaf axils; calyx elliptish 
globose, very smooth, 1.5 mm. across; corolla 3 mm. long 
at least, the adnate lobes splitting nearly to the base, gla- 
brous except the few hairs at the throat; the 4 lobes ascend- 
ingly spreading, oblong, obtuse; stamens 4, inserted upon 
the throat, 1.5 mm. from the base; anthers subsessile, 1 
mm. long, one half as wide, bifid at the base, basifixed; 
style 2 mm. long, barely lobed, also glabrous; green fruits 
ovoidly ellipsoid, with a much constricted neck and bearing 
the persistent calyx rim, nearly 7.5 mm. long; pyrenes 2, 
subplano-convex, 6 mm. long, 2.5 mm. at least wide across 
the middle, abruptly terminated by a sharp 1.5 mm. long 
point. e] 
Type specimen 10874, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindano, June, 1909. 
On the lower limbs of dry woods along a ridge of the 
Baracatan creek at 1500 feet. The Bagobos named it 'fKapal- 
kapal.” 
Differentiated from H. philippinensis Becc. by the larger 
and differentiy shaped leaves, smaller corolla and different 
seeds. The lobed anthers also throw it into relation with 
H. moselayanum Bece. 
MYRMECODIA Jack. 
Myrmecodia apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
Epiphytic .myrmecophytes; bulb oblongish ellipsoid, not 
lobed, 1.5 dm. across with only a single tuft of leaves at 
the distal or upper end, irregularly rugose, densely beset 
with echinate spines 7.5 mm. long, the inside honey-combed, 
the excavation wall smooth and yellowish, the vegetative 
