Marca 27, 1915] Two HUNDRED Twenty Six New Sprcres—I 2549 
umbrinus pulvernlent. Leaves opposite, thinly coriaceous, 
much paler green beneath even in the dry state, deep green 
above when fresh, the larger ones horizontal or descending, 
flat, margins rugose but entire, exceedingly diverse in size, 
lanceolate, the smaller or bract-like lamina linear, the basal 
or larger ones much exceeding the terminal ones in length, 
the larger ones 8 cm long by nearly 2 cm wide below the 
middle, glabrous except the nerves on the nether side, acute 
at the apex and obtuse at the base; petiole 5 mm long or 
less, grooved along the upper side, umbrinus puberulent or 
hirsutulose; midnerve dirty brown and very evident on the 
lower side, scurfy or puberulent, with 5 to 8 ascendingly 
curved lateral nerves, cross veins or reticulations none or 
very obscure; flowers ascending and odorless; pedicel slender, 
4 mm long, brown pubescent, subtended by a linear green 
bract which is equally as long and nearly glabrous, bearing 
a pair of unequal bracts 1 mm below the distal end; the 
shorter of these is 3 mm long, the longer twice as long, both 
seta-like, sparingly strigose; calyx 5-segmented, green, unit- 
ed at the very base, linear lanceolate or setaceous, unequal 
in length and somewhat in width, the longer one 1 cm, 
provided with divaricate hairs; corolla white, 1 cm long, 
the basal one half tubular, the upper portion subinflated, 
glabrous, crowned with 5 rather broad and blunt divaricate- 
ly spreading segments; stamens 4 or possibly 5, slightly une- 
qual, included; filaments inserted upon tlie corolla below the 
middle, 4 mm long, inwardly curved at the distal end, glab- 
rous below the middle, otherwise strigose; anthers 1 mm 
broad, less in length, subbasifixed, apparently broadly lobed 
at the base; ovary 1.75 mm long, subcylindric, glabrous; 
style 5 mm long, slender, also lobed, the broad disk more or 
less strigulose. 
Type specimen number 13843, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sep- 
tember, 1912. 
In compact humus covered soil of a steep wooded slope 
along the trail toward the summit of Cawilanan peak at 
4500 feet altitude. ‘‘Sagbot’? in Manobo. 
^ Apparently distinct from Merrill's number 5063 which 
the late C. B. Clarke determined as Staurogyne debilis ( Andr.) 
