2698 LEAFLETS or PyarLiPPINR BOTANY [Vor. VII, Anr. 114 
lower portion of the stem, horizontally spreading over the 
humus covered ground. Leaves deep green above, lividus 
beneath, membranous, spreading, curing unequally brown on 
its 2 sides, glabrous except the brown puberulent veins on 
both sides, the lower surface minutely black punctate un- 
der a lens, subelliptic or ovately elongated, base broadly 
cuneate or subrounded in the larger Jamina, apex sharply 
acute to acuminate, entire toward the base, otherwise cren- 
ately toothed or subentire, the average lamina 1 dm long 
by one half as wide across the middle, the apical ones 
smaller and turning purplish while drying; midrib deep 
brown when dry, puberulent, rather conspicuous beneath to- 
ward the base; lateral nerves 5 to 6 pairs, divaricate from 
the base and ascendingly curved, similar in color though 
less prominent, cross bars and reticulations obscure; petiole 
striate and brown pulverulent when dry, 2 to 5 em in 
length. ascending, lividus spotted. Inflorescence erect, usually 
terminal, occasionally lateral, the angular stalks greenish 
white and sprinkled with lividus, about 5 to 8 em long, 
subtended by reduced leaves, few branched from the middle 
or below it; bracts lilacinus especially the margins, rather 
broad, caducous, glabrous, brown when dry; flowers alternate, 
odorless, whitish corollas easily falling; pedicels ebracteolate, 
few mm long, flattened; fruiting calyx at most 1 cm long 
by 4 mm thick, glabrous, membranous, the basal one half 
united and cup shaped, erect; upper segment 3.5 mm long 
and almost as broad across the base, ovate, veined; the 
lateral pair of acuminate segments 2 to 8 mm long and 
attached to the lower lip which in turn is terminated by 
an equally sized and similarly shaped pair of teeth, all 
veined as the upper lip; corolla glabrous, very thin, 1.5 
em long, the basal one third tubular, the middle portion 
funnel shaped, the segmented portion divaricately spreading; 
the upper lip 3.5 mm long and nearly as broad across the 
base, entire, ovate, obtuse at the apex and with a callous 
tip; lower lip longer and broader, truncate and notched 
at the apex, the basal portion usually with a pair of lateral 
lobules or folds; stamens 1.25 cm long, 4; filaments united 
into a glabrous tube, only the apical one fourth free and 
ascendingly curved, 2 of the 3 filamentous portions a trifle 
