1102 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Anr. 59 
posite, arising 1 to 3 mm. from the base, curvingly ex- 
tending nearly to the apex, other nerves obsolete; petiole 
3 mm. long, stout, similarly hairy. Flowers solitary or few 
clastered from the leaf axils; pedicels at most 5 mm. long, 
subrecurved, scurfy brown or with crisp hairs, subtended at 
the base by brown and minutely fringed imbricate bracts; 
involueral disk broadly bilobed, 3 mm. wide across the 
pectinately fringed margins, only one half as high; calyx 
5 mm. long, 4 mm. across, rather broad clear to the base, 
glabrous except the pectinately fringed glands along the 
margins; segments triangularly acute, one half the length 
of the calyx; corolla glabrous, subcampanulate, with 5 acute 
or obtuse slightly reflexed teeth; stamens 10, inserted, near the 
base of the corolla; the filaments glabrous, wider below the 
middle, 2 to 3 mm. long; anther without horns, 2 mm. 
long, finely pulverulent, widest across the minutely bilobed 
base, dorsally attached just below the middle; ovary also 
glabrous, subglobose, superior; style smooth, strict, a few mm. 
long; stigma terminal, minute; fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 11676”, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. HERE 
District of Davao, Miadanaó; September, 1909. 
Discovered in elfinwoods laden with mosses and scale- 
mosses at the summit of mount Calelan. This as well as 
D. trinervia Elm. were collected and cured under one number, 
namely 11676 which is nearest but not at all the typical 
D. luzonica (Gray) Merr. They can distinctly be separated 
at once even in the dry state. Number 11681, the type 
material of D. calelanensis Elm. is another very closely allied 
. Bpecies. 
Diplycosia trinervia Elm. n. sp. 
An epiphytic shrub; stems quite rigid, branched; wood 
tough, covered with gray bark; twigs especially the younger 
portion brown when dry and covered with similarly colored 
setose hairs. Leaves copiously scattered along the branchlets, 
alternate, rigidly coriaceous, oblong elliptic, similarly tapering 
toward both acute ends, the apex terminated into a very short 
mueronate point, glabrous on the upper sublucid surface, 
paler green beneath, brown in the dry state, entire, mar- 
