January 31, 1911] Tae ERICACEAE or Mount APO 1108 
gins subinvolute and with occasional bristle-like brown 
hairs, beneath glandular punctate or with few hairs along 
the nerves or from the glands, the average blades 5 
cm long, 2.5 em. wide across the middle, the smaller ones 
similar in shape; midrib conspicuous beneath, impressed 
above, usually with only 1 pair of lateral nerves suboppo- 
sitely arising from 3 to 5 mm. from the base and cur- 
vingly extending clear to the apex, occasionally a minor pair 
arises from the base and runs along the margin, the upper 
oblique secondary nerves obscure or obsolete; petiole stout, 
$5 mm. long, brown, setose but ultimately glabrous. Flowers 
few clustered in the leaf axils, pendulous; pedicels slender, 
brown hairy, recurved, 1.25 em. long or longer, subtended 
at the base by minute bracts; involucral disk 3 mm. wide 
across the rim, 1.5 mm. high, pectinately glandular along 
the margin, otherwise nearly glabrous; calyx greenish, 5 mm. 
long, tapering from base to the broad 5-dentate throat, simi- 
larly glandular along the edges, the teeth rather blunt; corolla 
glabrous, 7.5 mm. long, campanulate, the 5 short acute seg- 
ments reflexed; stamens 10; filaments flattened toward the base, 
glabrous, 3.5 mm. long, inserted on the base of the corolla; 
anthers nearly as long, attached to the back below the middle, 
gradually tapering from the bilobed base to the sterile apical 
portion, minutely pulverulent, without appendages; ovary 
superior, flattish globose, glabrate, 2.5 mm. across; style also 
glabrous, 6 mm. long, columnar, bearing a terminal but not 
enlarged stigma; fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 11676,” A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
This Diplycosia was collected in the elfinwoods on the sum- 
mit of mount Calelan. See note under preceding. 
Diplycosia calelanense Elm. n. sp. 
A shrubby epiphyte; stems 1 m. long and branched; 
the main branches quite rigid, the ultimate ones rather lax 
and flexible, covered with smooth or thinly shredded yellowish 
gray bark; young twigs brownish in the dry state and sparse- 
ly setose hairy but soon becoming glabrous. Leaves al- 
ternatingly scattered, ascending, flat or only slightly recurv- 
