210 KOBINSON. 
luilf this length; style 4 mm long, 0,4 mm Avide, the stigma when young 
broadiv clavate, when mature attaining a length of 2.7 mm and a width 
of l.G'mm, obscurely 2-lobed at the apex, each lobe showing still more 
obscure traces of further division; capsule borne on a stalk now 4.8 mm 
long, its own length 5.5-G.G cm, before dehiscence 1-1.3 mm in diameter, 
with numerous seeds; seeds dark-brown, minutely papillose/ in outline 
oblanccolate or nearly ellipsoid, 1.2 mm long, 0.4 mm wide, distinctly 
narrowed at both ends but abruptly at the apex; coma white, 8-10 
mm long. 
Stems greenish to purplish, slightly woody, simple or near the apex 
slightly branching, 15-50 cm high, near the base 1-2,5 mm in diameter, 
terete or near the apex slightly angled, uniformly pubescent with short 
whitish appressed or slightly spreading hairs; leaves opposite or near 
the apex often alternate, the lamina glabrescent on the upper surface, 
minutely pubescent beneath, ovate to lanceolate, near the middle of the 
stem 1.1-2.8 cm long and 8-11 mm wide, slightly decreasing in size near 
tlie base of the stem, and very distinctly near its apex, passing into bracts, 
glandular-serrate oa the margins and usually glandular-tipped at the 
apex, rounded near the base but becoming slightly dccurrent upon the 
petioles, which are 0.5-1.5 mm long, those of opposite leaves usually 
connate and somewluit decurrent; lateral veins on each side of the midrib 
4 or 5. 
Type collected on dry grassy slopes in pine forest on Mount Data, District 
of Lepanto, Luzon, by E. D. Merrill, no. i'fSJ,, in flower and fruit, November 3, 1905. 
yurtlier represented by tbe followinj,' collections from I^panto and Benguet: 
Merrill ^'{oGl, Mount Data, flowers and fruit, November 4, 1905; Pauai, Bur. Hci. 
.',353 Mcarns, flowers, July, 1907; Bugiaa, Merrill .',065, flowers and fruit, October, 
1905; Baguio to Ambuklao, Merrill J,379, flowers and fruit, October 24, 1905; 
Mount Santo Tomas (Tonglon), Williams ir>.)l, fruit, November 29, 1904. 
Tliis genus bas not bitlierti) been reported from tbe Pbilippines except by the 
generic name. 
Epilobium platystigmatosum >;p. nov. 
Praeccdenti athne: florihiis racemosis, caiilis dimidiam superiorem 
partem occiipantibus, re^ularibus^ tetranieris; petalis plus minus alte 
bilobatisj stigmate orbiculari-ovali ; foliis linearibus vel sublinearibus, 
denticulatis serratis vel sinuosis^ basi g-radatim' in petiolum anguste 
marginatum contractis. 
Flowers regular,, foruiing a terminal raceme extending about half the 
length of the plant; at antliesis the ovar}^ 1-2 cm long, borne on a 
peduncle about 6 mm long; calyx -lobes 4, elliptic-lanceolate, 2.0-4 nun 
long, 1-1.7 mm wide, at the apex shortly acuminate with involute mar- 
gins; petals 4, pink, 3.3-4.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, at the apex divided, 
more or less deeply, even to beyond the middle into 2 rounded lobes 
povcral-veined ; stamens 8, the anthers broadly oval, 0.4 mm long, the 
filaments alternately longer and shorter, about 1.5 mm, and half this 
