306 The Philippine Journal of Science 1915 
NEPENTHACEAE 
NEPENTHES Linnaeus 
NEPENTHES BRACHYCARPA sp. nov. 
Alte scandens, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque exceptis 
glabra; inflorescentiis racemosis, pedicellis brevibus, 1-floris; 
operculum ascidii intus planum; foliis petiolatis, nervis longitu- 
dinalis circiter 2 utrinque, tenuibus, obscurissimis, basi angus- 
tatis, longe in petiolo decurrento-alatis, leviter amplexicaulibus, 
haud decurrentibus ; capsulis brevibus, 6 ad 15 mm longis. 
Scandent, 4 to 5 m high or more, glabrous except the dark 
brown pubescent very young parts and the racemes, the stems 
terete, brown, about 5 mm in diameter. Leaves alternate, spir- 
ally arranged, the lamina coriaceous, 12 to 14 cm long, 2 to 3 cm 
wide, brownish or olivaceous when dry, slightly shining, nar- 
rowed below and winging the 4 to 6 cm long petiole, the wings 
about 2 mm wide, about one-third amplexicaul at the base, apex 
acute or acuminate and extended as a long, slender tendril, the 
lateral longitudinal nerves at most 2 on each side of the midrib, 
very slender, obscure, or obsolete. Pitchers reddish, glabrous, 
or when young somewhat pubescent, about 9 cm long, 3 to 3.5 
cm in diameter, cylindric-ventricose, dimorphous, those on young 
plants with two ventral wings which are about 5 mm wide and 
prominently lacerate-toothed, those on mature plants with the 
wings reduced to merely low ridges which are not all toothed, 
0.5 mm wide and high, the base gradually narrowed into the 
tendril, the mouth oblique, 3 to 4 cm in diameter, ovate, dorsally 
produced into a short stalk, the peristome cylindric, equal, 2 to 3 
mm in diameter, densely striate; operculum elliptic to elliptic- 
ovate, broadly rounded, base rounded or somewhat cordate, about 
3.5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, plane, not at all keeled or cristate, 
inside with numerous small, round glands. Racemes dark brown 
pubescent, the female ones in flower about 9 cm long and 1.5 cm 
wide, in fruit very long-peduncled, about 13 cm long and 3 cm 
wide, the peduncles up to 35 cm long. Pedicels 3 to 5 mm long, 
pubescent. Sepals elliptic, obtuse, 3 mm long, somewhat pubes- 
cent. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, 3 mm long, densely ferruginous- 
pubescent. Capsules glabrous, oblong to lanceolate, 6 to 1.5 
mm long. 
Palawan, Silanga Peak, back of Silanga, Merrill 9588 (type), 9615, May 
30, 1913. 
The first specimen cited is with female flowers and mature, but old, 
fruits, while the second is a juvenile stage of what is apparently the same 
species, both being collected in the same place, on steep, dry, forested 
ridges at an altitude of from 250 to 400 meters. 
