1042 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY ` [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
ascending, glabrous, arranged in 4 horizontal rows, leaving 
large scars after falling, the dry blades 1 dm. long or longer, 
4 em. wide above the middle, the entire margins minutely 
involute, obovately oblong, the apex with a short abrupt 
acute point, cuneate at base; midvein prominent, the 6 as- 
cending lateral pairs faint; petiole also glabrous, channelled 
along the upper side, 5 cm. long; stipules forming rather 
thick plates, the upper side with 2 triangular acute nearly 
1 cm. long lobes, the lower and lateral side spinescent. 
Flowers irregularly scattered along the base of rather deeply 
and squarely shouldered excavations alternating with the leaf 
rows; calyx surrounded bya deciduous involucre with dense 
dry brown hairs on the inner side, elongated ellipsoid, nearly 
6 mm. long, 3 mm. thick, bearing a thin truncate rim; 
corolla white, 7.5 mm. long, thick, with 4 triangularly 
acute lobes, glabrous; stamens of an unequal number, sessilely 
inserted upon the throat; anthers oblong, 3 mm. long, bi- 
auriculate at the base; style slender, glabrous, slenderly 
clavate toward the apex: fruit ovoidly ellipsoid, smooth, dry, 
yellowish red, 7.5 mm. long, 8, concave on the back, 
plane on the inner 2 sides, broader below the middle, 4 
mm. long, more or less clothed with fuzzy hairs. 
Type specimen 12336, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 
1910. 
On limbs of rather large trees bordering the Pauala 
river from 750 to 1500 altitude. The writer observed that these 
insectivorous epiphytes more abundantly inhabit the trees partly 
leaning over the creek or river beds where a good current 
of air always waves; also on wind swept ridges, or in thinly 
wooded regions. They soon die and turn dry after being torn 
from their host, even so when cut with the limb attached. 
Most nearly related to M. tuberosa Jack., but amply 
distinct. 
PAEDERIA Linn. 
Paederia tomentosa Bim. Bijdr. 968, 1825. 
Common from middle Luzon nortwards to the Batanes 
