Zeuxine elmeri (Ames) Ames

12634» Adenostylis Blmeri Arnes, Succulent ter-
restrial herbs In fertile* moist humus covered soil of
forests at *20 feet altitude; stem 3/8 inch thick., more
or less creeping or at.least reclining, nodulose, green
and fleshy, eeeh giving rise to an inflorescent spi&e;
scope elso green and flashy* terete* provided with paler
green bracts; flowers chiefly at the top, seoundly arranged,
divaricate, subtended by pale white bracts; petal segment
white, the throat an£ tube greenish; flowers odorless;
fruit elongated obovoid, green; leaves divaricate, usually
near the ground* velvety green above and darker streaked,
paler beneath, flat* upon erect whitish more or less stem
clesping petioles, apparently early withering; "Bilang-
bilang«’1 3?hese specimens were brought in wet and were
spread out over the floor over night* 3?he next morning
it was noticed that the inflorescent and even the infru-
tescent portions assumed an erect position51 Broods
Point, mrah, ini.	ELMER’S FIELD NOTES
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