Marca 27, 1915] Two Honprep Twenty Six New SPEcIESs—I 2595 
or only the apex recurved. much lighter green beneath, 
drying almost equally greenish brown on both surfaces, entire, 
glabrous, broadly obtuse or rounded at the base, apex abrupt- 
ly though sharply acuminate, broadly oblong or subelliptic, 
alternate, average blades 15 cm long by 5.6 cm wide at 
the middle; midvein prominent beneath, grooved along the 
upper side, puberulent or becoming glabrous, with 5 pairs 
of lateral nerves, archingly united, the coarse and very fine 
reticulations slightly puberulent beneath especially so in the 
younger state; petiole 8 cm long, terete, faintly puberulent, 
thickened at both ends. Inflorescence divaricate or ascending, 
1 to 3 cm long, usually in the leaf axils; peduncle panic- 
ulately branched from the base, finely pubescent as are 
also its short branches; the short branchlets subtended by 
bract vestiges; calyx sessile, articulated at the short constrict- 
' ed base, thickly coriaceous, puberulent on the exterior, erect, 
at. least 3 mm long; teeth 5, subequal, acute or obtuse at 
the apex, imbricate, rather conspicuously convex on the back, 
the: basal one third united into a concrete somewhat angular 
stalk; petals free, alternating with the calyx teeth, cremeus, 
oblong, 4.5 mm long by one half as wide, truncate at the 
base, rounded at the apex, veiny, the basal portion sub- 
` glabrous especially upon the upper surface, otherwise finely 
ciliate pubescent or puberulent, the distal portion reflexed in 
anthesis; stamens '10, in 2 alternating series of fertile and 
sterile ones; filaments thick, the sterile ones 1 mm long 
and subglabrous, the fertile ones 1.5 mm long and densely 
ciliate on their sides toward the hase, all more or less unit- 
ed into a pubescent rim; anther basifixed, auriculately lobed 
at the base, rounded or slightly emarginate at the apex, 
ovately elliptic; ovary 4 mm long, hairy, ellipsoidly elongated, 
somewhat longitudinally angular, constricted into a short 
neck toward the apex; stigma glabrous, fleshy, much ex- 
panded, apiculately fringed. Young capsules strongly recurved, 
trigonous and somewhat hairy. ; 
Type specimen number 14043, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of — Mindanao, Oct- 
ober, 1912. 
Discovered on a rocky ridge with more or less forests 
between Duros and Cawilanan peaks at 3500 feet altitude. 
