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35 m high or less, the stems sparingly pubescent, the lower parts 
prostrate and rooting at the nodes. Leaves membranaceous, 
lanceolate, greenish when dry, 6 to 9 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, 
base acute or acuminate, gradually narrowed upward to the 
blunt apex, margins slightly undulate, both surfaces with nu- 
merous small cystoliths, glabrous, or the midrib on the lower 
surface more or less hirsute with short hairs; lateral nerves 5 
or 6 on each side of the midrib, distinct, ascending, anastomosing ; 
petioles 8 to 20 mm long. Spikes terminal and axillary, solitary 
or in threes, shortly peduncled, up to 3 cm long. Bracts submem- 
branaceous, green, not margined, orbicular-ovate to broadly 
obovate, 6 to 7 mm in diameter, or the obovate ones up to 8 mm 
in length, their margins sparingly ciliate, apex abruptly and very 
shortly acuminate; bracteoles oblong-lanceolate, slenderly acu- 
minate, margins sparingly ciliate, about 5 mm long. Calyx seg- 
ments narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, about 3.5 mm long. 
Corolla sparingly pubescent externally. 
Samar, Catubig River at Tagabiran, Bur. Sci. 24515 Ramos, February, 
1916, in open forests at low altitudes. 
A characteristic species distinguished by its membranaceous leaves 
and its relatively very broad bracts, which are abruptly short-acuminate 
and not at all margined as in most other species of the genus. 
[Vol. XI, Sec. C, No. 3, including pages 101 to 146, was issued August 2, 
1916.] 
