2550 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
Clk. Leaves of ours are narrower, more tapering and with 
the calyx segments ciliate. 
E Strobilanthus antonii Elm. n. sp. 
Suffruteseent undershrubs; woody tissues soft, sappy 
white, odorless and tasteless; bark very smooth, dull green, 
lighter green beneath the epidermis, the inner side the color 
of the wood; stems few from the same cluster, 3 m high, 
5 to 8 em thick, branched from below the middle; the bran- 
ches widely spreading and curvingly recurved; the green 
glabrous twigs turning nearly black while drying, descending 
or drooping, slender, nodulose. Leaves horizontally spread- 
ing, flat, submembranous, much paler green beneath, curing 
equally blackish brown on both sides, very unequal in size, 
opposite, glabrous, with cystoliths on both surfaces, the 
lower or large blades 2 dm long by 6.5 cm wide at the 
middle, oblong, apex acutely caudate, base cuneate except those + 
of the smaller blades which are obtuse, margins from below 
the middle to the apex apiculately dentate, basal one third 
entire; midrib pronounced beneath, glabrous, with 5to 8 as- 
cending lateral pairs, cross bars faint though quite evident 
from beneath; longer petioles 3 to 4 cm in length, glabrous, 
shallowly grooved along the upper side, those of the smaller 
or ovately oblong lamina only 5 mm long; flowers subtend- 
ed by about 3 bracts, ascending, broadly lanceolate, slenderly 
pointed, 1.5 cm long by 5 mm wide below the middle, 
parallel! veined, glabrous upon the upper folded surface, 
hirsute along the margins on the back and along the 
point; calyx segments 4 or 5, slightly unequal, 1 to 1.5 
em long, lanceolate, few parallel veined, hairy along the - 
edges and apical point, glabrous toward the base, more or 
less folded upon the upper side especially toward the slender 
point; corolla 3 to 4 em long, the basal 7.5 mm constrict- 
ed, erect, otherwise inflated, ascendingly curved, 3 cm wide 
across the top, caducous, 4-segmented, glabrous; segments 
white, when old or in the early state violaceus tinged, a 
trifle unequal, throat obscurely oblique, 5 mm long, 7.5 
mm broad, marginal portion undulate or rugose; stamens i 
4, inserted below the middle along the upper side of the 
