2672 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor VII, Arr. 114 
3 to 4 mm long or shorter, 1.75 mm wide below the 
middle, ovate or ovately elongated or broadly lanceolate, 
completely folded on the upper side and usually recurved, 
with a straw white sharply pointed apex, base rather broad 
‘and clasping the stem or branches; midrib appearing 
ridged beneath, lateral nerves none, the entire margins also 
straw brown or white, submembranous. Flower solitary, 
terminal, erect, subtended by a pair of leaves, apparently 
upon a very short pedicel; calyx 5 mm lorg, gradually 
tapering from the base toward the 3 mm wide top, the 
basal 3 mm united and hyaline; teeth 5, glabrous and green, 
from 0.5 to 0.75 mm wide at the base, tapering from the 
base to the setaceously acuminate point; corolla also gla- 
brous, 7 mm long, slenderly funnel shaped- or gradually 
tapering from the base to the 3.25 mm wide throat, toward 
the base hyaline, the basal 4.5 mm united; lobes rotately 
spreading, 5 in number and alternating with the calyx seg- 
ments, about 2.5 mm long including the broad hyaline con- 
nectives between them; the free terminal portion of the 
lobes broadly acute, 1.25 mm long and as wide across the 
base, the middle portion appearing bluish green in the dry 
specimens; stamens 5, alternating with tbe corolla segments, 
included; filaments filiform, inserted at the middle of the 
funnel shaped corolla tube, glabrous, averaging 1.5 mm in 
length; anthers pale yellow, ovately oblong, notched at the 
base, obtusely rounded at the apex, basifixed, compressed, 
dehiscing along the edge on the inner face, 0.5 mm long, 
almost reaching the throat; ovary slenderly obovoid, slight- 
ly compressed, glabrous, the basal one third hyaline and 
without ovules, 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm thick toward the 
rounded top; style very short, bearing 2 strongly recurved 
stigmatic lobes; ovnles many, brown, appearing imbedded or 
arranged in an ellipsoid mass. 
Type specimen number 11692, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Collected by the author in moss and scale-moss beds at 
8500 feet altitude or on the summit of mount Calelan. It 
was called ''Tetet-liabod" by the Bagobos. Dedicated to 
Dr. E. B. Copeland who was the first American botanist 
to climb and explore mount Apo. 
