The Philippine Journal of Science 
1915 
the secondary, about 10 on each side of the midrib, ascending; 
petioles 9 to 13 cm long, the younger ones with membranaceous | 
sheathlike margins up to 5 mm in width, extending nearly or 
quite to the apex of the petiole and there auriculate, these : 
deciduous in age. Peduncles about 7 cm long. Spathes not seen. 1 
Spadices sessile, dense, cylindric, about 10 cm long, 1 cm in diam- 
eter. Filaments about 3 mm long, the anthers one-third as long. 
Pistil 4 mm long, somewhat angled by mutual pressure, about 
2 mm in diameter at the apex, slightly depressed, the stigma 
sessile, orbicular. 
Leyte, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 1139, September, 1914, in 
forests, altitude about 500 meters, flowers white. 
A species similar to and manifestly allied to Rhaphidophora perkinsiae 
Engl., from which it differs in its relatively narrower, somewhat thinner, 
slenderly acuminate leaves, its much slenderer spadices, and its shorter i 
flowers. 
. COMMELINACEAE 
CYAN OTIS D. Don 
CYANOTIS PEDUNCULATA sp. nov. § Eiicyanotis. 
Planta circiter 20 cm alta, caulibus inferne prostratis, radican- 
tibus, parce ramosis; foliis oblongo-ovatis, chartaceis, glabris, ; 
acuminatis, usque ad 4.5 cm longis, in siccitate plus minusve pur- 
pureis; inflorescentiis terminalibus, longe pedunculatis, bracteis 
2 magnis valde inaequalibus suffultis, bracteolis lanceolatis, nurae- 
rosis, circiter 4 mm longis, carinatis, ciliatis; petalis purpureis, 
circiter 5 mm longis, tubo 7 mm longo. 
A rather slender plant about 20 cm long, the stems prostrate 
below and rooting at the nodes, then erect or ascending, glabrous, 1 
simple or with a single branch. Leaves chartaceous, glabrous, 
oblong-ovate or oblong, 3 to 4.5 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cm wide, 
acuminate, base rounded, more or less purple when dry; sheaths 
loose, 6 to 8 mm long, bearded at the base and apex with long 
soft hairs, a few similar hairs along the side opposite the attach- 
ment of the leaf. Inflorescence terminal, the peduncles 5 to 6 cm 
long, the flowers rather numerous, scorpioid, but one or two 
opening at a time, all inclosed by two large, very unequal, im- 
bricate, spreading bracts, the basal parts of the bracts inflated, 
about 8 mm long, the larger one outermost and bearded in the 
central part of the inflated portion on both sides ; limbs spreading, 
that of the smaller bract 1 cm long or less, of the larger one 
oblong, acuminate, up to 2.5 cm long. Flowers numerous, purple, 
scorpioid, but one or two opening at a time, the bracteoles nu- 
