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apex pubescent, as are the linear-spatulate or slenderly club- 
shaped, 2 to 3 mm long lobes. Corolla about 10 mm long, gla- 
brous, the lobes 5, narrowly oblong, obtuse, about 3 mm in 
length. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9183 Whitford 
<fe Hutchinson^ January, 1908. 
A strongly marked species, distinguishable by its very thickly coriaceous, 
prominently veined, oblong-ovate leaves. 
OLDENLANDIA Linnaeus 
OLDENLANDIA OVATIFOLIA (Cav.) DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 427. 
Hedyotis ovatifoUa Cav. Ic. 6 (1801) 52, L 753, 
Oldenlandia nudicaulis Roth Nov. PL Sp, (1821) 95- Hook f Fl 
Brit. Ind. 3 (1880) 70. .... 
The oldest valid name for this species is here accepted. The species 
IS represented by the following Philippine material: Luzon, Province of 
Eataan, Lamao River, Merrill 3303, Williams 65, lU: Province of Laguna, 
Los Banos, Hallier s. n. 
India to the Malay Peninsula and Java. 
OPHIORRHIZA Linnaeus 
OPHIORRHIZA UNDULATA sp. nov. 
Planta erecta, simplex vel leviter ramosa, circiter 15 cm alta 
cauhbus brunneo-pubescentibus ; foliis lanceolatis, acuminatis! 
margme undulatis, usque ad 9 cm longis, subtus pallidis ; floribus 
paucis ebracteolatis, circiter 4.5 mm longis; capsulis 4 mm longis, 
8 mm latis. 
An erect, simple or slightly branched herbaceous plant about 
15 cm high, the stems slender, distinctly pubescent with short, 
more or less curled, brownish hairs. Leaves lanceolate, about 
equal y narrowed at both ends, acuminate, base acute or acu- 
minate, those ot each pair very unequal in size, the larger ones 
L fT,"" T ^'^ *' ^-^ '"* ^'^'' th«^^ Petioles about 1 cm 
!«?! 'T!.' """'^ ^-^ *' ^-^ '"^ ^«"^' 4 to 8 mm wide, sub- 
sessile or shortly petroled, margins undulate, the upper surface 
wntt'tT" "";'" '''' '^^ '""^^ P^^^-^r-" - somewhat 
whitish. Flowers terminal, few, white, ebracteolate, their pedi- 
cels about 1 mm long. Calyx ovoid, 1.5 mm long, the teeth 5, 
about 3 mm long, slightly enlarged at the base; lobes oblong 
oblong' L^^ '"^- "^'^'"^"'^ ' "^^ ^-^' «l-<^-= an hS 
oblong. Capsule compressed, about 4 mm long, 8 mm wide. 
Mindanao District of Davao, Mount Binutun, Weber 1U5 October 26 
1911, on banks of small streams in bamboo forests. ' 
