2546 LBAFLETS or PAILIPPINR BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
ed at the apex; stamens 4, inserted at the middle of the 
corolla, in 2 unequal pairs; filaments dilated, glabrous ex- 
cept toward the briskly hairy base, adnate to the corolla 
tube, the longer pair nearly 1 cm long, the shorter pair 5 
mm only; anthers truncately oblong, 2 mm long at least, 
1.25 mm wide at the bilobed base; ovary giabrous, elongated, 
3 to 5 mm long, 1.5 mm thick, pointed at the apex, su- 
perior; style 2.5 cm long, glabrous and very slender, simi- 
lar to the filaments in color; stigmatic portion of a seta- 
Ceously pointed termination of the style proper, twisted and 
curved, the stigma arranged along the side. 
Type specimen number 10722, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Gathered in moist rich humus covered soil of a dense- 
ly wooded flat at 3750 feet altitude, along the north side 
trail of the Baruring river. My field label gives ‘‘Pamag- 
tuigan’ as the Bagobo vernacular name. 
5 Hypoestes sibulanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A sprawling or subscandent suffrutescent perennial; stems 
few from the same root cluster, green, terete, smooth, 7.5 
mm thick or thinner, sparingly branched below, freely branch- 
ed above the middle, 3 to 4 m high or long, the slender 
and lax branches reclining or drooping; roots many, Jong, 
fibrous, only loosely attached to the soil. Leaves from the 
joints and widely scattering, in very unequal opposite pairs or 
alternate and bract opposed, descending, flat or only the 
slender acuminate or caudate tips recurved, deep dull green 
above, paler beneath, thinly coriaceous, glabrous above, very 
finely puberulent beneath, curing grayish green on both sides, 
obtuse and rounded at the inequilateral base, the smaller 
ones broadly lanceolate, the others ovately oblong, 1.5 dm 
long by 4 cm wide at the middle or just below it, the average 
smaller ones less than one half as large, reticulated; midvein 
brown and glabrous beneath, the 5to7 lateral pairs rather 
faint and much ascending; petiole 3 to 5 mm long, cil- 
late along the grooved edges. Inflorescence erect, terminal, 
5 cm long or less; main peduncle 3 cm long, strict, puber- + 
ulent, ashy brown when dry, solitary or with a much short- 
