2670 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (VoL. VII, Arr. 114 
Type specimen number 13529, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 
ust, 1911. 
Collected in dry rocky ground. along a sharp wooded 
ridge at 3000 feet altitude along the trail leading up to 
Duros peak. The Manobos call it ‘‘Pamingcawon.”’ 
The larger leaves whose under side is more or less pu- 
bescent and the strigose capsules primarily distinguish it 
from Trichosporum cardinale Copel. 
Trichosporum urdanetense Elm. n. sp. 
A long and slender climber; stem terete, thick, green 
though grayish brown on the old portion, flexible, only oc- 
casionally branched, the younger ones dull purplish brown 
on the exposed side; branches also climbing, straight and 
erect; roots short and wiry, usually extending from the leaf 
joint into the bark. Leaves chiefly horizontal, scattered 
all along but more numerous toward the top, rigidly coria- 
ceous, dark green on the upper flat surface, yellowish or 
greenish white beneath in the fresh state, opposite or root 
opposed, elliptic, broadly obtuse at the apex and broadly round: 
ed at the base, 3 to 5 cm long by 2 to 2.5 em wide at 
the middle, occasionally much smaller, entire, glabrous, dull 
grayish on both sides when dry; midrib evident from be- 
neath towards the base, sunken along the upper side; later- 
al nerves obscure, mainly arising from below the middle 
and much ascending; petiole stout, 3 to 5 mm long, in 
the early state usually hairy as well as the marginal basal 
portion of the blade, traugh-like upon the upper side. 
Flowers terminal, odorless, upright; pedicel slender, greenish, 
at least 1 cm long, crisply hairy, slightly enlarged toward 
the distal end; calyx also greenish in the fresh state, deep 
cup shaped, glabrate except about the puberulent base, 
thickly coriaceous, 1 cm long by 7.5 mm thick, ultimately 
separating from the slightly expanded pedicel, 5-lobed; lobes 
subequal, broad and shallow, rounded and with few ciliate 
hyaline hairs at their ends; corolla 3.5 cm long, deep blood 
red, 8 mm thick above the middle, constricted towards the 
base, glabrate, a trifle curved, 4-lobed at the apex; lobes 
