2548 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
curved lateral nerves much less conspicuous beneath but 
relatively more evident from the upper side, the few re- 
ticulations obsolete; petiole 5 mm long or less, pulverulent. 
Flowers sessile, subsecund, suberect, subtended by 3 ascend- 
ing bracts; the lower bract 3.5 mm long and 1 mm wide, 
chartaceous, truncate at the base, slenderly pointed toward 
the apex, broadly lanceolate, conduplicate upon the upper 
glabrous surface, keeled, the margins along the lower side 
finely hispid, the lateral bracts smaller; calyx 4 mm long, 
united around the base, the upper two thirds usually divid- 
ed into 4 or occasionally 5 segments, all chartaceous, keel- 
ed, slenderly pointed, finely hispid along the margin beneath 
and along the point, the outer segment usually large and 
its point recurved; corolla veiny, whitish especially toward 
the base or below the middle, delicate, caducous, 4.5 mm 
long, more or less constricted at the middle, inflated below 
it, segmented and spreading above it, glabrous; segments 4, 
broad and blunt, 1.5 mm long; stamens of an equal number, + 
inserted 0.5 mm below the throat, barely exerted; filament 
0.5 to 0.75 mm long, erect, usually hairy along the inner 
side; anthers 0.5 mm long, subcompressed, oblong, notched 
at the base, basifixed; ovary glabrous, 1 mm long, ovoidly 
ellipsoid, with a slender glabrous 2 mm long style; stigma 
slightly enlarged. 
Type specimen number 13383, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 
1912. 
Found in wet sandy nooks of densely shady places along 
the Catangan creek at 1250 feet above ocean level. The 
native or Manobo name is “Malitogo.”” 
As to our Philippine species it is nearest related to 
Lepidagathis glabra Merr. 
Í Staurogyne ciliata Elm. n. sp. 
Low and somewhat succulent herbs, solitary or in small 
clusters; stem glabrous when old, 1 to 3 dm high or less, 
5 mm thick, branched above the middle, strongly curved 
toward the base, terete but striate; roots fibrous and ample; P 
branches few to several, mostly toward the top, ascending, | 
