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11 mm longis, cinereo-pubescentibus; floribus circiter 18 mm 
longis. 
An erect, suffrutescent, branched plant, up to 50 cm high, 
more or less cinereous-pubescent. Leaves in equal or distinctly 
unequal pairs, ovate to oblong-ovate, acutely acuminate, base 
acute, membranaceous, olivaceous, the larger ones 6 to 12 cm 
long and 4 to 6 cm wide, the smaller ones 3 to 6 cm long and 
2 to 3 cm wide, the upper surface rather nrinutely cinereous- 
pubescent with scattered hairs, the indumentum more conspic- 
“uous on the midrib, the lower surface somewhat pubescent, 
paler; lateral nerves 6 or 7 on each side of the midrib, slender, 
distinct; petioles cinereous-pubescent, 1 to 4 cm long. Flowers 
pink, chiefly axillary, the involucres few, solitary or fascicled, 
never more than 5 in a fascicle, sessile or shortly peduncled; 
bracts 4, lanceolate, slenderly acuminate, about 11 mm long, 
sparingly cinereous-pubescent, the outer two united for the 
lower 3mm. Calyx 5 to 6 mm long, pubescent, membranaceous, 
the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm in length. Corolla 1.8 
cm long, sparingly hirsute externally in the upper two-thirds, 
the tube 9 mm long, glabrous below, the lower lip 9 mm long, 
3-lobed, the lobes broadly ovate, rounded, 2 mm in length. Fila- 
ments 7 mm long, slightly ciliate; anthers 1.5 mm long. 
MINDANAO, Zamboanga District, near Zamboanga, Merrill 5473 
(type), October, 1906, For. Bur. 9231 Whitford & Hutchinson, 
January, 1908, Bur. Sci. 16384, 16503 Reillo, October, 1912. In 
shaded ravines at low altitudes. 
Among the Philippine species perhaps as close to Hypoestes 
subcapitata C. B. Clarke as any, but remote from it in its vegeta- 
tive, inflorescence, and bract characters, the bracts being merely 
pubescent, not at all ciliate. A striking character of the present 
Species is its chiefly axillary inflorescences, the involucres being 
fascicled, not arranged on an elongated rachis, and often solitary 
or in pairs, or never exceeding five in a single inflorescence. 
HYPOESTES TENUIS sp. nov. 
Herba parva, ramosa, circiter 20 cm alta, erecta vel deorsum 
decumbens, caulis vix 1 mm diametro; foliis in paribus aequali- 
bus, ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, membranaceis, 1 ad 3 cm longis, 
obtusis vel obtuse acuminatis, nervis utrinque 8 vel 4; inflores- 
centiis axillaribus terminalibusque, involucris paucis, plerumque 
spicatim dispositis, spicis usque ad 5 cm longis; bracteis 4, 
lanceolatis, acuminatis, 8 ad 9 mm longis, minute cinereo-pubes- 
centibus; floribus 1.5 cm longis. 
