2700 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY {Vou. VII, Arr. 114 
place, the middle one a trifle longer, glabrous and black 
when dry, bearing few flowers above the middle; bracts 
purplish, opposite, early and easily falling, ascending, 1 cm 
long, convex and deeply folded on the inner side toward 
the base, slightly inequilateral, slenderly tapering to the acu- 
minate point; midvein prominent, the lateral nerves faint, mi- 
nutely yellowish punctate, puberulent along the margin and 
around the dorsal side, with a few deep yellow glandular 
buds in their axils; flowers 1 to 3-clustered; pedicel 4 to 6 
mm long, glabrous but with few glands; calyx purple, 4 mm 
long, turbinate, 2-lipped or irregularly 5-toothed, deep yel- 
low glandular especially the upper obtusely rounded lobe, 
the lower 2 teeth narrow and sharply pointed, the lateral 
segments merely dentate and only one half as Jong; corolla 
deciduous, thinly membranous, bent at right angles 5 mm 
from the base and divaricate, 2 cm long including the up- 
per or longest segment, gradually widening from the tubular 
base along the lower side up to about two thirds the length 
of the corolla or at the oblique throat of the lower lip, 
whitish and tinged with purple; upper lip 8 mm long, broad- 
ly lanceolate, nearly straight, 2.5 mm wide below the mid- 
dle, apex entire; lower lip 7 to 8 mm wide across the throat, 
compressed, terminated by 3 teeth, the latter ones dentate, 
the broad middle one emarginate at the apex thereby from- 
ing 2 rounded lobules; stamens 4, inserted at the throat of 
the upper lip; filaments compressed, 4 to 6 mm long, like- 
wise glabrous, unequal in size; anthers versatile, subrotund, 
0.75 mm long; style similar to the filaments, equalling the 
longest corolla segment; ovary glabrous and more or less 
4-lobed. 
Type specimen number 11646, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1912. 
Discovered in fertile moist and deeply humus covered 
ground of small open places of dense forests at 4000 feet 
elevation. Its Bagobo name is ‘‘Manangidtausa.”’ 
