Marcu 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Spxcizs—I 2547 
er lateral pair; branches relatively very short, opposite, sub- 
tended by sharply pointed linear bracts; flowers odorless, 
usually in small clusters or in pairs at the ends of the 
branchlets, subsessile, erect, subtended by a pair of folia- 
ceous bracts; bract 6 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, broadly 
obtuse, oblong, veiny, glabrous; calyx greenish, 6 mm long, 
cylindric, glabrous except the scabrous margins of the 5 seta- 
ceously acuminate 3 mm long segments; corolla white or light 
creamy white, nearly 3 cm long, the basal one half tubular 
and scabrously pubescent along the striae, broadly bilobed, 
the lower lobe narrower and a trifle shorter, the upper one 
1.5 cm long, both elliptic or the upper one ovately so in 
shape; stamens 2 or probably more; filaments compressed, 
inserted at the beginning of the tube, finely ciliate along 
one side; style very slender and terete, glabrous, equalling 
the corolla; ovary elongated, 2 mm long, glabrous, subtend- 
ed at the base by a glabrous cupular rim or disk, subte- 
rete, | 
Type specimen number 11152, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Among tickets of damp rocky soil upon a steep wood- 
ed ravine along a streamlet near the Sibulan river at 1750 
feet altitude. "''Rass-rass" is the vernacular or Bagobo name. 
3 Lepidagathis specifer Elm. n. sp. 
Erect herbs, usually few to several stemmed; stems oc- 
casionally solitary, frequently divided from near the base, 
sparingly branched from above the middle, 1 to 3 dm high, 
3 to 5 mm thick, glabrate, castaneus though with green ridges, 
more or less crooked and bent at the base; roots copious, 
fibrous and often somewhat fleshy. Leaves diverse in size, 
horizontally spreading or ascending, membranous, nearly flat, 
much lighter green beneath even in the dry state, edges 
entire, glabrous but the nether side covered with minute 
cystoliths, opposite, apex obtuse to acute, base usually obtuse 
or subcuneate, the average blades 7 cm long and 2.75 cm 
wide across the middle or a trifle below it, oblong or ovately 
A oblong, the small bract-like ones linear to lanceolate; midrib 
very evident beneath, brownish, the 5 to 7 ascendingly 
